Presentation to the Faculty Board, Faculty of Education, Brock University. February 2014. Elizabeth Yates, Scholarly Communication/Liaison Librarian.

1. Open Access & education:
an introduction
Elizabeth Yates, Liaison/Scholarly
Communication Librarian
February 2014

2. Today’s outcomes
You will recall:
Characteristics of Open Access
publishing, particularly in Education
Current issues such as grant
compliance
Copyright considerations
Where to find information

3. Hot button issue: grant funding
Image: 'The Red Button'
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4. OA
• Free, immediate online access to
scholarly research
• No end-user fees
• Usually greater freedom for re-use

5. How is this happening?
• Open Access journals
• Online repositories – subject or
institutionally based
• Data sharing (not for today )

6. Rapid growth in OA Journals

7. Open Access publishing
in Education
Search for OA Education journals:
1. Directory of Open Access Journalswww.doaj.org
2. JURN: free arts & humanities journals www.jurn.org
>find relevant content with keyword searching
e.g. teacher education
>watch for copyright restrictions

8. Canadian OA Education journals
•
Historical Studies in Education/Revue d'histoire de l'éducationQueen's University
•
International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership - Simon
Fraser University
•
Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education - University of Alberta
•
Canadian Journal of Higher Education - Revue canadienne
d’enseignement supérieur - University of British Columbia
•
Journal of Teaching and Learning - University of Windsor
•
The Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies
(JCACS) - York University
•
Journal of Classroom Research in Literacy - University of Toronto

9. Open Education Journals
@ Brock
Brock Education > Editor: Dr. Julian Kitchen
-a peer-reviewed Canadian journal that publishes two
issues a year
-focuses on research and practice of teaching, teacher
education and teacher development
Teaching and Learning > Editor: Dr. Tony Di Petta
-published by the Brock-Golden Horseshoe Educational
Consortium
-focuses on current research and thinking about critical
issues in education that affect schools and boards

10. Repositories
• Scope:
– Subject e.g. arXiv.org
– Institutional e.g. Brock’s Digital
Repository
• Content:
– Preprint
– Final manuscript
– Other versions

11. Education in OA Repositories
• Digital Repository @ Brock University – Education MRPs,
Master’s and PhD Education theses
• Education @ University of Toronto's T-Space – research from
the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
community
• Stanford University School of Education (SUSE) Open Archive working papers, published articles, and other materials
produced by the faculty, staff, and students at Stanford
University School of Education
• Education @ University of Ottawa's repository - includes
theses, articles, working papers, technical reports, conference
papers, etc. from the University of Ottawa's Faculty of
education.

12. OpenDOAR
opendoar.org
• Global
database of
repositories
• Can search by
subject e.g.
education
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13. Fact Fiction?
All Open Access journals
charge publication fees

14. Fiction!!
Fact > Multiple OA business models*:
-Publication fees
-Advertising
-Free online, print suscription
-Institutional subsidies/technical support
-Membership dues
-Indexing revenues (e.g. EBSCO, Scopus, Proquest)
*Source: OA journal business models, Open Access Directory: http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_journal_business_models

15. Fact Fiction?
Open Access publishing is
incompatible with rigorous
peer review

16. Fiction!!
Fact > OA is fully compatible with
rigourous peer review
-every journal establishes its own peer-review
process: this is independent of how articles are
dissemminated (subscription versus OA)
-peer-review itself is problematic and does not
guarantee scientific rigour (bias, retractions,
fraud)*
Smith, R. (2006). Peer review: a flawed process at the heart of science and journals. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 99(4):
178-182. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1420798/
Birukou, A., Wakeling, J.R., Bartolini, C., et al. (2011). Alternatives to peer review: novel approaches for research evaluation. Frontiers in
Computational Neuroscience, 5 (56). doi: 10.3389/fncom.2011.00056
Jefferson T, Alderson P, Wager E, Davidoff F. (2002). Effects of editorial peer review: a systematic review. JAMA, 287: 2784-6.
doi:10.1001/jama.287.21.2784
Van Noorden, R. (2011). Science publishing: the trouble with retractions. Nature 478, 26-28. doi:10.1038/478026a

17. Fact Fiction?
Open Access authors retain
full copyright

18. FaCt!!
Fact > Fully OA journals allow you
retain copyright on your work
-usually, Open Access authors can choose from a
variety Creative Commons licenses e.g. CCBY, CC-BY-NC

19. Fact Fiction?
Articles in OA publications
are eligible for
consideration in promotion
& tenure decisions

20. FaCt!!
Fact > P&T committees can decide
what counts – including OA publishing
-you confer the prestige
-OA is linked to higher impact*
-recognizing OA in P&T can open the door for
other emerging forms of scholarship
*Mark J. McCabe, Christopher M. Snyder (2013)
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer: The Effect of Open Access on Cites to Science Journals Across the Quality Spectrum,
Social Science Research Network SSRN, May 25, 2013

21. Open Access Effect
- http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/ - Edith Cowan
University
- 350,000 downloads since 2011
- submissions have increased significantly,
allowing AJTE to publish twelve issues a year
while still rejecting sixty percent of submissions
- citation rate for journal has doubled since 2012

22. Thinking @ OA? Helpful links
Brock Library > About Us > Open Access www.brocku.ca/library/about-us-lib/openaccess
Brock Library > Services for Faculty >
Guidelines for Evaluating a
Journal/Publisher – brocku.ca/library/services-
lib/faculty/guidelines-for-evaluating-a-journal-publisher
Scholarly Publishing and Academic
Resources Coalition – protect your rights
as an author > sparc.arl.org/resources/authors/addendum

23. Questions?
Elizabeth Yates
eyates@brocku.ca
X4469