Learn more about Open Access Breakfast meeting at BMC March 30th 2010 Aina Svensson and Karin Meyer...

Learn more about Open Access

Breakfast meeting at BMC

March 30th 2010

Aina Svensson and Karin Meyer Lundén

Electronic Publishing Centre, Uppsala University Library

What is Open Access?

Open Access means scientific publications made freely available on the Internet …

… free to read, download, copy and distribute research results.

Not Open Access

Why Open Access?

More people can get access to publications – research findings can be used to a larger extent

more citations!

Swan, A. (2010) The Open Access citation advantage: Studies and results to date: http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18516/

Publicly funded research should be free for all.

Research funders and OA

The number of research funders requiring Open Access to scientific publications is increasing:

- Wellcome Trust- National Institues of Health (NIH) - European Research Council (ERC)- The Swedish Research Council (VR)- Formas- etc

List of policies for more than 50 funders: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/

VR requires Open Access

Mandatory for grant holders to publish research results Open Access.

Which means:

publications should be made freely accessible to all within six months

applies so far only to journal articles and conference reports (not to monographs and book chapters)

applies from 2010 grant applications – not for publications from previous projects

How to publish OA?

Two basic approaches to make publications Open Access:

1. Publish in Open Access journals

2. Publish in a subscription-based journal and deposit a copy in an Open Archive, i.e. DiVA

self-archiving, “parallellpublicering”

What is an Open Access journal?

Different publishing models

- Subscription-based journals

- Open Access journals

- Hybrid journals

In common: peer-review and quality control!

Subscription-based journals

Need subscription to get access to articles

Which means restricted dissemination and use of articles

Usually copyright is transferred to the publisher

About 85 % of the journals use this model

Pay for access to journals – to read articles!

Open Access journals

Free unrestricted access to articles on the Internet

Increased visibility and use of articles

Copyright is retained with the author

About 15 % of all journals are Open Access

Pay for publishing – no extra costs for access!

Publishing costs

Covered usually by:

• Article-processing charges ($200 - $3000)

• Institutional memberships – universities that are members of an Open Access publisher, cover the cost.

• University Open Access funds

Uppsala University does not have any OA funds or memberships yet

Hybrid journals

Many traditional publishers offer an option for authors to have their particular article made Open Access – for an additional fee.

Publishers with hybrid journals

For example:• Blackwell Publishing – Online Open• BMJ – BMJ Unlocked hybrid journal program• Cambridge Journals – Cambridge Open Option• Royal Society – ExiS (Excellence in Science) Open

Choice• Springer Open Choice – (1700 journals)• etc.

Charges for publishing vary between $1500-3000

Publisher can give reductions to the institutional subscription prices based on the number of payed Open Access articles

Publishers with an Open Access model

BioMed Central – biology, medicine (205)

PLoS – biologi, medicin (7)

Hindawi Publishing Corporation – science, technology, medicine (150+)

BioMed Central- 207 peer-reviewed Open Access journals in medicine and biology - Indexed in PubMed, ISI, Scopus, Google Scholar etc.- Publishing fee (article-processing charges): about $ 950 to $ 2200- Only fees for accepted articles

PLoS – Public Library of Science- Nonprofit, run by researchers, nobel prize winner Harold Varmus.- 7 journals, PLoS Biology (IF 12,7),PLoS Medicine (IF 12,2)- Indexed in PubMed, ISI etc.

Hindawi Publishing Corporation- 200+ journals in science, technology and medicine.- Started as a traditional publisher, moved to Open Access in 2007- Indexed in PubMed, Scopus etc.

Find OA journals (www.doaj.org)

Find OA + hybridjournals

2) Publish in a subscription-basedjournal and deposit a copy in an open archive, i.e. DiVA

self-archiving, ”parallellpublicering”

Compliant with Open Accessdemand from VR

The purpose of DiVA

Increased visibility and dissemination

One search tool and database for UU publications

All publications – all types of publications in all disciplines

Basic data for annual reports and evaluation

Stimulate open access-publishing

Long term preservation and secure access

Self-archiving in DiVA

What do the publishers say?

• 2 out of 3 journal publishers allow self-archiving of scholarly articles• represent 95% of all academic journals

Self-archiving in DiVA is free of charge

How does it work?

Three steps

1. Check the publisher's policy regarding self-archiving

2. Get the right version of your article

3. Send it to diva-helpdesk@ub.uu.seor upload it to DiVA

Step 1: Check publisher policy

• What is your publisher's or journal's policy concerning self-archiving?

• Which version of the article is allowed to be self-archived - the publisher's PDF or the author's version?

• Is there an embargo or other restrictions?

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

Examples of publisher policies

• Elsevier, Springer: allow self-archiving of the author's version

• AAAS (Science), Nature Publishing Group (Nature): allow self-archiving of the author's version 6 months after publication 

• Taylor & Francis: allows self-archiving of the author's version 12 months after publication

• Wiley-Blackwell: self-archiving rights vary between journals; general policy allows self-archiving of preprints

Step 2: Get right version

• Usually the author’s version

= author’s final version of the article after peer review, including revisions, but without the publisher’s layout and pagination

make sure to keep this version of the article!

• Some publishers allow (or insist on) use of the publisher’s PDF

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/PDFandIR.html

Step 3: Send file to DiVA Helpdesk or upload it to DiVA

Send the right version of your article to diva-helpdesk@ub.uu.se and we’ll do this step for you

• If author’s version: we add a cover sheet with complete reference and DOI/link to the article on the journal’s homepage

• All files that are uploaded to DiVA will be checked before publication

Self-archived author’s versionof an article in DiVA(cover sheet + final manuscript)

DiVA Helpdeskhttp://diva.ub.uu.se/helpdesk

Quick reference guides for DiVA

• Register publications (manually)

• Import references

• Edit or delete publications

• Self-archive in DiVA

http://www.ub.uu.se/divaquickref

Open Access Publishing: Summary

1. Check if there is a suitable Open Access journal in your subject

2. Publish in a traditional journal and also in DiVA – check publisher policy and keep right version of your article

Aina SvenssonKarin Meyer Lundén

diva-helpdesk@ub.uu.sehttp://diva.ub.uu.se/helpdesk

Thank you!