Open Access for Research: The Librarian Overview of Opportunities & Trends
1. OPEN ACCESS FOR RESEARCH:
THE LIBRARIAN OVERVIEW OF
OPPORTUNITIES AND TRENDS
Pavlinka Kovatcheva
Faculty Librarian: Science,
University of Johannesburg
E-mail: pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za
Vaal University of Technology
Open Access Mini-Seminar,
25 October 2012
2. PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Open Access for Research
Institutional Repositories
Publishers Subscription & Open Access
Journals
African & South African Open Access Journals
Open Access Journal Collections & Web
Resources
Social Media and Research
Librarian Support to Researchers
3. •What Researchers should know about OA
•Accredited Open Access Journals
•Funding Opportunities for Publishing in OA
OPEN ACCESS FOR RESEARCH
4. OPEN ACCESS FOR RESEARCH
Open Access....
Maximises the access to the research findings;
Increases research impact to a wider readership;
Expands shared knowledge across scientific field;
Make your research output more visible to researchers
elsewhere and make research from elsewhere more
accessible;
Universities and Research Institutions afford to subscribe to
a fraction of those journals, that means that research is
having only a fraction of its potential usage and impact
Increases the citation impact of the author;
Over time increases the Journal Impact Factor (?)
5. WHAT ELSE DO RESEARCHERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OA?
What OA journals exist in your research field?
- Open Science Directory, BioMed Central, PloS, DOAJ ...
What Institutional Repository your institution use and
how a researchers can benefit from it?
- UJDigispace; VUT’s DigiResearch
Publishing in subscription-based journals, can limit your
readership (Science Direct; Wiley Online, SpringerLink, etc.)
Publishing your pre-print article in OA repositories can
enlarge your readership and citation impact: Arxiv.org;
UJDigispace; VUT’s DigiResearch ....
Deposit your post-prints in a OA Repository:
UJDigispace, VUT’s DigiResearch ....
As a Researcher you have an option to publish in
Accredited Open Access Journals (AOAJSA)
6. FUNDING FOR PUBLISHING IN OA JOURNALS
Funding options:
OA journals do not generate revenue
Some OA Publishers receive funding in exchange
for advertising on their web
Some OA journals require payments from the
Authors for article submission
Government can subsidise OA Publishers
/Institutions for producing freely available
information
International funding agencies (Collaboration)
Institutional Membership paid on behalf of the
Authors
7. ACCREDITED OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS – SOUTH AFRICA (AOAJSA)
HTTP://WWW.AIS.UP.AC.ZA/AOAJSA.HTM
8. UJDigispace : UJ IR
IRSpace: South African IR
Open DOAR: International IR Directory
Driver: IR for European Research
SOUTH AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL
INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES (IR)
SELF- ARCHIVING
FACILITATE EASY-ACCESS
ENHANCE RESEARCH IMPACT
19. PUBLISHERS OPEN
ACCESS INITIATIVES (1)
Rapid publication
Quality, reputation and high standard of peer review
Impact Factors and Thomson Reuters (ISI) citation
tracking
High visibility and international readership in your field
Included in all major bibliographic databases
You retain copyright, licensing the article under a
Creative Commons license
From broad to specialist interest journals
No space constraints
http://www.springeropen.com/
20. PUBLISHERS OPEN ACCESS
INITIATIVES (2)
Articles published in these journals are freely
available to anyone
To support the costs associated with publishing,
article processing fees apply.
These cover costs including: managing the peer
review process, supporting our publishing and
hosting platforms, typesetting, marketing and other
publishing costs.
These are paid by the author (or their funding body
or institution) after acceptance.
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/intro.cws_home/open_access
21. PUBLISHERS OPEN ACCESS
INITIATIVES (3)
Wiley Open Access offers authors, readers, institutions,
funders and societies:
Open access to their research: freely available on Wiley Online
Library and PubMed Central
Fast efficient publication
Quality and authoritative open access publishing
Stringent peer review
High-level editorial support – each journal has a dedicated
Editor-in-Chief and international editorial board members as well
as clear editorial policies
Longevity guaranteed – Wiley Open Access journals are
published by Wiley, one of the world's foremost academic and
professional publishers and the largest society publisher
Article and institutional-level metrics
Easy sharing – social networking and more
http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/view/index.html
23. •SABINET: African Journals Online Archives
•SABINET: Open Access South African Journals
•SciElo (Academy of Science of SA– ASSAF)
AFRICAN & SOUTH AFRICAN
OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
24. AFRICAN JOURNALS ARCHIVE: FREE ACCESS TO JOURNALS WITH A FOCUS
IN SCIENCES, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
HTTP://WWW.AJARCHIVE.ORG
25. SOUTH AFRICAN OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
The collection currently comprises 46 South
African journals Multidisciplinary collection
Searched individually
15 OA Journals are Accredited/Approved
Journals (DoE, ISI, IBSS)
The copyright of each journal in this
collection resides with the publisher of the
journal.
The journals are also available on SA
ePublications database
http://www.sabinet.co.za/?page=open-access-journals
27. Academy of Science of South Africa –
ASSAf
The Scientific Electronic Library Online
(SciELO) SA is South Africa’s premier
open-access (free to access and free to
publish) searchable full-text journal
database in service of the South African
research community.
• The database covers a selected
collection of peer-reviewed South
African scholarly journals and forms
an integral part of the SciELO Brazil
project.
• SciELO SA is managed by the
Academy of Science of South Africa
(ASSAf), funded by the South African
Department of Science and
Technology and endorsed by the
South African Department of Higher
Education and Training (DHET). http://www.scielo.org.za
40. BASE: BIELEFELD ACADEMIC SEARCH ENGINE
ACADEMIC OPEN ACCESS WEB RESOURCES
http://www.base-search.net
41. GOLONKA RESOURCES
E-MATH FOR AFRICA; E-PHYSICS FOR AFRICA; E-CHEMISTRY FOR AFRICA
The main purpose is to promote
the use of Open Access journals
and other scientific resources,
as well as being a platform for
consortia building.
e-Chemistry for Africa: http://chemistry.golonka.se/
e-Physics for Africa: http://physics.golonka.se/
e-Math for Africa: http://math.golonka.org/
44. INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS: HOT FROM THE PRESS
IOP have adopted a more liberal Creative Commons
license (CC-BY 3.0) for future articles published on a gold
open access basis.
This license allows others to distribute, re-mix, amend,
and build upon a piece of work as long as they credit the
original creation.
The licenses grant rights to the users of the content but
do not replace the copyright, which remains with the
copyright holder.
The change applies to articles being published on an
open access basis in all IOP-owned hybrid journals and
the gold open access titles Environmental Research
Letters and New Journal of Physics ......
(e-mail, 24/10/2012)
46. SOCIAL MEDIA & RESEARCH
Source
Social Media can help Researchers:
Promote their research; Connect with other
researchers & share resources
47. HOW SOCIAL MEDIA CAN HELP RESEARCHERS?
Making Research Publications available in an Open Access
Repository is not enough! (Kelly, 2012)
Social media provides opportunities for the “connected
researchers” to engage more effectively with their peers and
raise the visibility of their research outputs which can help in
enhancing citations of their papers and implementation of
the ideas. Source
The use of Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Social media sharing
tools such as Slideshare and research profiling services
such as LinkedIn, Academia.edu, Mendeley to develop
successful research collaborations
Read the article “Open Access and Open Practices for the
Connected Researcher”, Bryan Kelly (2012)
54. SCOOP.IT: SHARE IDEAS THAT MATTER
http://www.scoop.it/t/uj-sciences-librarian-open-access
55. PAPER.LI: BE A PUBLISHER
http://paper.li/ujlibscience/1347303251
56. OPEN ACCESS: INITIATIVES TO FOLLOW IN SA
Open Access week, 22 – 28 October 2012
http://www.openaccessweek.org/
Open Access Africa (hosted by BioMed
Central) - Cape Town, 4-5 November 2012
http://www.biomedcentral.com/developingcou
ntries/events/openaccessafrica
Berlin 10 Open Access Conference,
Stellenbosch, 6-8 November 2012
http://www.berlin10.org/