Presentation workshop PhD students Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, 02-10-2013

1. Publishing your papers and
research data in open access
Leon Osinski, IEC / Library
Available under CC BY license

2. Open access of your publications
• What is open access?
 a new business model of publishing in which the costs of
publishing are paid differently: reader paid versus author
paid
 Open access is free information: free as in free beer and free
as in free speech
• Why open access?
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because your research is funded with public money
because your research is unavailable for the scholarly poor
because you retain copyright of your papers
because it increases your visibility as a researcher
• Open access and quality
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3. Open access and quality [ 1 ]
When choosing a scientific open access journal to publish a paper
in, a researcher is chiefly guided by the quality of the journal. To
assess the quality of an open access journal, you may consider the
following points:
1. Is the journal listed in DOAJ?
See also DOAJ Seal of Appoval
Apart from DOAJ large publishers produce fully open access journals as
part of their business model which they present exclusively on their
websites: Springer (130+), Elsevier (50+), Wiley (20+), Taylor & Francis
(16), Nature Publishing Group (17) and Oxford Publishing (15)
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Is the journal listed in Web of Science?
 Open access journals that are covered by Web of Science [only
journals of SCI part of WoS]
 Journals from all 3 parts of WoS
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4. Open access and quality [ 2 ]
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Is the journal listed in Thomson Reuters’ Journal Citation Report?
An overview of open access journals with an impact factor assigned by
Thomson Reuters [2009]
Very often open access journals are young journals and therefore don’t
have an impact factor yet. Because of that, initiatives have been started
to develop other quality criteria for open access journals, for example
the transparency of the peer review process.
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Is the publisher of the journal a member of OASPA?
Open access publishers that are members of the Open Access Scholarly
Publishers Association (OASPA) commit themselves to a code of
conduct with rules that guarantee the quality of the published journals.
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5. Open access and quality [ 3 ]
5. Is the publisher of the journal listed in Beall’s list of potential, possible,
or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers?
An unforeseen consequence of the open access movement is the rise of
journal publishers that are after a quick profit and not very particular
with quality control (through peer review) of published articles. For an
overview of these so-called predatory publishers, see Beall’s List with
criteria for determining predatory open-access publishers.
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6. Open access of research data
1. Why publish your research data?
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Scientific integrity [verification of results]
Re-use of research data to advance science [publishing your
data in ways that are intelligible, assessable and usable]
To increase your visibility
2. Where to publish your research data?
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3TU.Datacentrum
DANS
Figshare
Dryad
Data journals
Integration with your paper
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Open Access Coach TUe: http://www.tue.nl/openaccess
National Dutch open access website: http://www.openaccess.nl
The effect of open access on citation impact: http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html
DOAJ: http://www.doaj.org
DOAJ Seal of Approval: http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=news&nId=303&uiLanguage=en
Springer OA journals: http://www.springeropen.com/journals
Elsevier OA journals: http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-access-journals
Wiley OA journals: http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/view/journals.html?page=1
Taylor & Francis OA Journals: http://www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess/openjournals
Nature Publishing Group OA Journals: http://www.nature.com/libraries/open_access/index.html
Oxford Publishing OA Journals: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/oxfordopen/
Journals covered by Web of Science (SCI part): http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgibin/linksj/opensearch.cgi
Journals covered by Web of Science (all three parts):
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/accessdenied/294074.html
Open access journals with an impact factor: http://wowter.net/2011/01/06/the-impact-factor-of-open-accessjournals/
OASPA: http://oaspa.org
Beall’s List: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
TUe Repository: http://repository.tue.nl
Sherpa-Romeo: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
3TU.datacentrum: http://data.3tu.nl
DANS: http://www.dans.knaw.nl
Figshare: http://figshare.com
Dryad: http://datadryad.org/
Example of data journal: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2049-6060
Example of integration data in paper: http://f1000research.com/articles/1-3/v1
How to write great papers…: http://www.unijena.de/unijenamedia/Downloads/faculties/bio_pharm/iew/University+Jena+Publishing+Connect+Worksho
p+May+2013.pdf
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8. Open access and repository
If you don’t want to publish your paper in an open access journal or
your research group or funder cannot afford it, you may choose to
re-publish your paper (or dissertation) in our TUe repository [self
archiving].
Check out Sherpa-Romeo if this is permitted [publisher copyright
policies]
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