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Benefits of Open Access to Early Career Researchers
Nancy Pontika, PhD CORE
Open University Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @nancypontika
Universita Degli Studi Di Trieste, 7 July 2015
What is publishing?• Process of making information available to the general public.
“Publish or perish”
• Traditionally, this is achieved by engaging with a publisher – resulting in the publication of a journal article, book chapter or book.
• Using a publisher is still the most common way of disseminating the results of research.
• Universities also offer means of making research available – (e.g. Open Access Repositories)
• There are means of ‘self-publishing’.
Publishing process • A manuscript is submitted to the publisher (pre-print)
• Reviewed internally by editorial staff
• Peer reviewed - normally externally, by one or more expert academics (post-print)
– Academic publishers conduct external, independent peer-review, which lends authority and prestige
• Production – of the final PDF/Print Copy (publisher’s final version)
• Publication of the paper
Using a publisher – considerations• Which publication would you be publishing in? Is it well respected?
• What publications do staff and students read? What do(n’t) they like about them? Opinions can be based on personal taste.
• Does the journal have an Impact Factor or other indicator of prestige?
• What are the acceptance rates? Are you being realistic about where you are pitching your article?
• What is the nature of the agreement you have to sign with them? Will you be able to retain any rights?
• Is it a commercial publisher or a society publisher? Or both?
• Do you need to obtain permissions for 3rd party copyright? Your publisher should guide you on this.
How does publishing work?• A manuscript is submitted to the publisher
• Reviewed internally
• Peer reviewed - normally externally
• Production – of the final PDF/Print Copy
• Publication of the paper
Publishing qualities
REGISTRATION CERTIFICATION AWARENESS ARCHIVING
Intellectual Property
Research validity certification
Research accessibility assurance
Research Output preservation for future use
How open access applies
REGISTRATION CERTIFICATION AWARENESS ARCHIVING
Intellectual Property
Research validity certification
Research accessibility assurance
Research Output preservation for future use
Research Idea
Receives funding
Research Conduction
Publication
Research Cycle
Who conducts research?
How much does it cost to access it?
Eventually who can really access it?
What can I do as an early career
researcher to show my research work to
the world?
It is not as difficult as you may think…• Publish in open access journals • Deposit (self-archive) into a repository
(institutional or disciplinary/subject) • Deposit your data in a data repository • Identify yourself and your work • Use social media to create a research societal
impact
Publish in open access journals But doesn’t it cost authors a
lot of money to publish in open access journals!
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/rossmounce/oa4-ecr
Cost – free
Fee waivers
Low cost – high quality
Publish in open access journalsWhat about predatory journals?
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/rossmounce/oa4-ecr
Deposit into a repository Where can I find one? Who
can help me locate them?
Universita Degli Studi Di Trieste Institutional Repository
Disciplinary Repositories – http://oad.simmons.edu
Research Conductio
n
Research Conductio
n
Research Data
Research Data PublicationPublication
Deposit data http://oad.simmons.edu
What is the big deal with
opening data and sharing
lately?
Identify yourself and your work How many
people have my name?
Your resear
ch projec
t
Your resear
ch projec
t
I open my
research data
I open my
research data
I publish in open access
journals
I publish in open access
journals
I deposit in open
repositories
I deposit in open
repositories
I use social
media to share it with the world
I use social
media to share it with the world
Use social media Like Twitter, Facebook,
Blogs? Is this acceptable for researchers?
Grazie!
Domande?
