Wien, 15 December 2008, Relevance and Impact of the Humanities

The prospects opened up by Open Access

Christine KosmopoulosCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

UMR Géographie-cités, France

“In the age of the Internet, free and efficient access to information, including scientific publications and original data, will be the key for sustained progress.” European Research Council, Scientific Council,17 December 2007

What is Open Access ?

No restrictions to access Digital Online Free of charge Free of most copyright restrictions Free of licensing restrictions BOA Initiative in December 2001

Source : Peter Surber, OpenAccess Overview : http://www;earlham.edu

The different models of OA

Publishing: over 3,500 journalslisted in the DOAJ

Open archives: over 1,200 listed in the OpenDOAR

Collaborative websites such as blogs and wikis

How does Open Access work ?

What kind of scientific control is used ? Peer-reviewed journals Pre- or post-print manuscripts deposits Community’s peer reviewHow is information shared? Interoperability of documents between servers, search engines OAI services within the web 2.0 environmentCollaborative websites: commentaries, tagsAlerting (RSS feeds)Indexing tool: related documentsMining data: re-use of data

What are the advantages of OA?

Visibility Broader content Diversity of data Broader material Collaborative tools Interdisciplinarity International collaboration Significant increase of the citation rate Free software Lower cost for the scientific community

The challenge for the SSH

To speed up OA deposits and practices To few OA journals. DOAJ : 826 journals in SS

and 774 in Humanities = 44% of the total coverage

To few deposits in repositories (Handbook on OA edited by the EC, 2008)

Recent initiative OAPEN Open Access Publishing Initiative for the

SSH (launched last September)

To promote the different forms of communication proposed by the web 2.0

Why is OA important for the SSH ?

Open Access miximizes research access and impact* promotes new approaches to the

calculation of citation impacts and impact factors

provides innovative models for scientific communication

facilitates aggregation of various resources including peer review

* Stevan Harnad, 2008

Links

About OA http://www.earlham.edu http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ http://www.opendoar.org/ http://www.doaj.org/ http://www.openrepositories.org/2008 http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/

pdf_06/open-access-handbook_en.pdf http://www.interdisciplines.org/liquidpub/papers/1 http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/ http://www.oaister.org/ http://www.openarchives.org/ore/About metrics and citations http://www.cybergeo.eu/index15463.html http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june04/harnad/06harnad.html http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11688/ http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/esep/v8/n1/ http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.htmlAbout copyright http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/Recent initiatives http://www.driver-repository.eu http://www.oaspa.org/ http://www.oapen.org/