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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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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
