This document summarizes topics related to open access at UPEI, including open foundations, IslandScholar and open access, open data, and open textbooks. It discusses recent controversies involving open access publishers and journals. While an article found issues with some open access journals' peer review processes, open access itself aims to make research available to all. UPEI has an open access policy and institutional repository called IslandScholar to facilitate open access of scholarly works. There is also discussion of open data, reproducibility of research, and draft policies from research funding agencies regarding open access and data sharing requirements.

1. OPEN ACCESS @ UPEI: 2013
Mark Leggott, Robertson Library

2. TOPICS
๏ Open Foundations
๏ IslandScholar and Open Access
๏ Open Data
๏ Open Textbooks

3. CONTEXT
๏ Beall’s List creator sued by OMICS
๏ Dale Askey sued by Edwin Mellen Press
๏ Publishers “double-dipping” practices even
when faced with mandates
๏ Rising cost of journals

7. OA ON TRIAL?
๏ Science issue features an article by John
Bohannon - OA journals + bogus article
๏ Selected “underclass of journals”, a
number of which accepted the article
๏ Some belonged to publishers like Sage,
Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer and others
๏ Suggestion of article was OA encourages

8. CORE OF OA
๏ Bohannon article is an indictment of
shoddy peer review and business practice
๏ Nothing to do with OA
๏ OA is a philosophy designed to
make advances in research
available to all, regardless of $$,
not a publishing process

9. F1000RESEARCH
๏ New effort by creator of BioMed Central
example of new approach to peer review
๏ Instant publication (internal review)
๏ Open peer review
๏ Open comments
๏ Release of full data set

10. VALUE OF OA
๏ Research made more widely available
๏ Increasing citations/impact factor
๏ Facilitate interdisciplinarity & collaboration
๏ Responds to “public good” argument for
research outputs in general

11. UPEI OA POLICY
๏ Approved in 2012, encourages scholars:
๏ to deposit research output in
IslandScholar and retain copyright
when possible
๏ to consider open access options
๏ to deposit research data in a VRE

12. ISLANDSCHOLAR
๏ UPEI’s institutional repository
๏ provides access to scholar’s citations
and where available, article/data
๏ currently has 8,300+ citations
๏ facilitates deposit under OA Policy
๏ Islandora system is the foundation

23. DRAFT TRI-AGENCY OAP
๏ SSHRC/CIHR/NSERC have released a
Draft OA Policy - Sept 1, 2014 proposes:
๏ journal publications only
๏ REQUIREMENT to deposit
๏ CIHR open data REQUIREMENT

24. OPEN DATA
๏ “trust, but verify” core of research
๏ Increasing interest in having access to
data, collaborators and funders
๏ Open Data generally implies open and
unfettered access to data
๏ Providing controlled access is also
possible via systems like UPEI’s VRE

25. REPRODUCIBILITY
๏ Increasingly of interest, especially in
disciplines like health
๏ Goal is to provide data and all
information needed to duplicate research
๏ One interest is responding to recent
studies that suggests vast majority of
research is NOT reproducible

26. CHANGING LANDSCAPES
REPRODUCIBLE
NOT
1990
60
60
45
45
30
30
15
15
0
0
2013
REPRODUCIBLE RESEARCH
NEGATIVE RESULTS PUBLISHED
Economist: How science goes wrong. October 18, 2013.

27. VRE SERVICE
๏ Can provide range of service from online
presence to data repository with backup
and preservation
๏ UPEI now able to assign DOI’s for data
๏ Linkages to IslandScholar records
๏ Increase discoverability and citations

28. DATACITE DOIS
๏ Unique identifiers for datasets, provide:
๏ easy reuse/verification of data
๏ impact of data can be tracked
๏ facilitates recognition of data producers
๏ Links back to scholar record/IR

30. DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP
๏ Tri-agency+CFI+GenomeC consultation
๏ proposing a collective realignment of funding
policies that will help promote excellence in
data-management practices in agencyfunded projects
๏ Responses accepted up to Dec 16/2013

31. OPEN TEXTBOOKS
๏ Recent effort to facilitate discussion of
making open textbooks available at UPEI
๏ 1st-year programs a focus, all of interest
๏ Business, Biology, Chemistry, RS
๏ 2-4th-year courses also considered
๏ Initial savings to students $30,000+

32. DISCUSSION