Scholarly Publishing and Open Access: things to consider 21/11/16 Louise Tripp, Academic Liaison Librarian (Research) and Open Access Manager openaccess@lancaster.ac.uk

• Ensure you understand what is required e.g. Open Access policies, Research Data Management policies

• Choose your publication route

• Submit your manuscript to the publisher

• Create a record of your work in Pure at the point of acceptance for publication

Session Outline

• Lancaster University’s Open Access Policy incorporating HEFCE’s OA policy

• RCUK’s Open Access Policy

• Guidance on Research Data Management

• Lancaster University’s Research Data Policy

Ensure you understand what is required

We mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers…

… the only role for copyright in this domain should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

(Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002)

What is Open Access?

Incorporating key points of the HEFCE OA policy (1 April 2016 onwards). To be eligible for submission to post-2014 REF:

• Create a record in Pure and deposit journal articles and conference proceedings with ISSN immediately on acceptance (Green Open Access)

• In Pure complete the highlighted yellow fields only – the Library will add the rest

• Document to be deposited should be the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM)*

• Date of acceptance needs to be recorded in Pure

• Deposits may be subject to publisher embargoes but there are limits set (For the REF: 12 months for panels A and B; 24 months for panels C and D) – Library will add these. You can check a journal’s embargo on Sherpa Romeo.

• Choose a CC BY or CC BY-NC licence (more about licences)

• Library will validate your record

*Except where the gold open access route has been chosen

Lancaster OA Policy – Key Messages

Key Requirements:

• From 1 April 2013 all journal articles and conference papers from research funded by UK research councils must be made available as Open as OA publications (Gold) or Access by deposit on repositories (Green)

• Gold is preferred - funding has been allocated to institutions for this

• If Green is chosen then the maximum embargoes are: 6 months for BBSRC, EPSRC, MRC, NERC, STFC 12 months for AHRC and ESRC

• We are required to report annually on compliance

You must:

• Acknowledge your RCUK grant in your paper by including your grant reference number

• Acknowledge your affiliation with Lancaster University in your paper

• Publish under a CC BY licence for gold or CC BY-NC for green

RCUK OA Policy

• Choose the right journal for your research: seek advice from your department and consider the points at thinkchecksubmit.org

• Traditional model of scholarly publication vs. Open Access – see Publishing Flowchart

• Citation data to measure impact of specific journals e.g. Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science. Consider Journal Metrics

• Check whether the journal complies with your funder’s policy – SHERPA FACT, or if unfunded check SHERPA RoMEO

• See if Open Access funding is available to you if you choose the gold OA route

Choose your publication route

RCUK Funding

• Applies to journal articles/conference proceedings

• Block funding allocated - £190k for 2016/17

• Prefer immediate OA (Gold) or Green within 6 months for BBSRC, EPSRC, MRC, NERC, STFC) or 12 months (AHRC, ESRC)

• Must use CC BY licence for Gold or CC BY-NC for Green

LU Funding

• Strict criteria and small fund available

Horizon 2020 OA Policy

• FP7 post-grant OA funding

How do I get funding to make my research Open Access?

• Acknowledge source of funding in your manuscript

• Identify where and how associated data can be accessed via a data availability statement

• Acknowledge your affiliation to Lancaster University

• Consider Author Rights – see SPARC Europe’s webpages

Submit your manuscript to the publisher

• Register your research output in Pure, deposit your Author Accepted Manuscript. You must do this immediately upon acceptance for publication (deadline of 3 months within acceptance)

• Create a record and deposit your research data in Pure

• Create an ORCID if you do not have one

Create a record of your work in Pure at point of acceptance

• Library support for researchers http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/library/information-for/researchers/support-and-training/

• Open Access support openaccess@lancaster.ac.uk

• Research Data management support rdm@lancaster.ac.uk

• Keep up to date on news/events via Twitter, Facebook and the Library Training and Events webpage

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