Why you should care.An introduction.
Open Access
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What does Open Access mean?
• Free (for the end user)• Digital (online)
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What is Open Access?
• Immediately (embargo’s are possible)• Research (publications, but also datasets)• With as few restrictions (reuse and copyright)
as possible
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Why
• Research payed for by tax payer’s money should be available to them without extra cost
• Because my research funder obliges me to make my research available in Open Access
• Colleagues worldwide should have access to my research, not only those who can pay all subscription prices
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Why
• I want to increase visibility and impact of my work
• I want my research to be available as soon as possible
• I disagree with the policies of the big publishers
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Different Ways to make your work OA
Deposit an open access version of your work in a repository Publish directly in an
OA journal
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Self-archiving
• Deposit research in OA repository – Institutional
– Subject (discipline-specific)
• Better than personal, departmental or project website!
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Self-archiving
• Immediate OA or after embargo period (discipline-specific)
• ‘Free’• Main focus of mandates
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Open Access publishing
• Publish in OA Journal• All disciplines• OA has no influence on quality of journal!• With or without Article Processing Charges/
Author Fees
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Open Access publishing
• Hybrid OA: – traditional journal -> OA Fee -> immediate OA – your institution still has to pay subscription fees
because not all content is freely accessible …
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Open Access publishing
• Young journals -> not always scoring well in traditional metrics systems – but are catching up! (PLOS, BioMedCentral, …)
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It’s not over …
• Mainstreaming – More attention– Also: more discussion!
• Lots of experimenting going on! – Financing OA journals– Overlay journals based on repository content – …
• Altmetrics• Text and data mining
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The European perspective
• European Commission: big research funder (FP7 – Horizon 2020)
• 2 dedicated commissioners Neelie Kroes and Máire Geoghegan-Quinn
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The EC and Open Access
• Why open access ?– Serving research and innovation (R&I) and improving
return on investment – Allow the benefits of science to be exploited by all
(researchers, industry, citizens) and give equal access in all EU27 Member States
– Give free access to results of publicly-funded research – Drive down the costs for dissemination without
sacrificing quality
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The EC and Open Access
• A means to improve knowledge circulation – Not a goal in itself ! – Not all Member States are the same
• Both 'Green' and 'Gold' open access measures should be promoted in Horizon 2020, both should be valid and complementary approaches (transition period of the market)
• “Open access must be effective, fair, affordable, competitive and sustainable for researchers and innovative businesses”
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OA Pilot in FP7
• 7 areas (>1300 projects to date) – 20% of total FP7 budget (2007-2013) – OpenAIRE portal www.openaire.eu – Linking of publications with datasets
• 'Best effort' to provide OA • Peer-reviewed publications • Allowed embargos: 6/12 months • Refunding of OA publishing costs – Eligible while project runs
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OA Mandate in Horizon 2020
• No longer a pilot : OA becomes an obligation• All scientific areas • Peer-reviewed publications• Allowed embargos: 6/12 months • Plus: pilot for research data • OA publishing costs – Eligibile while project runs – plus (tbc): possibility to cover later publications,
under conditions to define
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• Infrastructure to implement EC’s OA policy– Visibility– Access– Tools & services– Linking research output to project information and
data• www.openaire.eu
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OpenAIRE
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What do you think?
• Are you making your research OA already? Why (not)?
• What can be done on university/government level as incentives
• Would you consider taking part of OA initiatives such as new journals, training sessions, …
• How about your research data? • …
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References• Open Access cartoon by Patrick Hochstenbach (@hochstenbach)• ‘Open Access Explained!’ PHD Comics by Jorge Cham, Nick Shockey and
Jonathan Eisen• ‘Green and Gold’ image by Libby Levi for opensource.com• ‘Gold vs. Green’ graphic. Björk et al. (2010). "
Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature: Situation 2009". PLoS ONE 5 (6): e11273. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0011273
• APC graphic. Corbyn, Zoe. Price doesn't always buy prestige in open access, Nature 22.01.2013 doi:10.1038/nature.2013.12259
• ‘Nature vs. Science vs. Open Access’ PHD Comics by Jorge Cham• Spichtinger, Daniel Open Access in Horizon 2020 and the European
Research Area http://www.scienceeurope.org/uploads/GRC/Open%20Access/2_Daniel%20Spichtinger.pdf