Presentation on Open Access to graduate students

1. Marinus Swanepoel
Aka: Ninaisskaikkimaani

2. The term “scholarly
communication” is often used as
shorthand for peer-reviewed
publishing, traditionally the
primary way a discipline advances.
But in the broadest sense it
includes how scholars find
information, create knowledge,
and communicate among
themselves, with students, and
beyond the academy with other
audiences.

3. Open Access (OA) is perhaps the
most important development in
scholarly communications in
recent years.

4. Generally speaking, Open Access
content is scholarly material that
is:

5. Freely available on the World Wide
Web

6. The reader has barrier free access to
it

7. There are no pay-per-view fees or
subscriptions

8. It is also normally free of many
licensing and copyright
restrictions.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

9. Why Open Access?
The Open Access movement came
about as a result of several factors,
including:

10. The desire of academic authors to
disseminate the results of their
research more widely

11. and increase the impact of their
work.

12. The desire of academic authors for
more control over their works,
instead of signing all or most rights
away to commercial publishers.

13. The motivation that the results of
taxpayer-funded research should
be made accessible to everyone.
(We work for the common good of
society.)

14. The high cost of scholarly journals,
which have increased in price
annually beyond the rate of
inflation for many years.

15. Roads to Open Access

16. The Green road, or self-archiving,
involves the deposition of article pre-
prints and/or post-prints in repositories.
These repositories can be institutionally-
based,

17. or they can be connected to
specific disciplines, such as arxiv
for Physics or RePEc for Economics.

18. The repositories are inter-operable
and can be searched with tools
such as Google Scholar and
OAIster. Most publishers allow
articles to be deposited in these
repositories; see this list.

20. The Gold road is open access publishing.
New journals are being created which are
fully open access and old journals are
being converted to OA. In addition, there
are "hybrid" publishing programs which
make articles openly accessible on an
individual article basis.

21. The Directory of Open Access Journals
keeps track of the growing number of these
journals. http://www.doaj.org/
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22. Tri-Agency Open Access Policy

23. In February 2015,
CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC
unveiled a harmonized open access
policy.

24. Rational
As publicly funded organizations, the Agencies have a
fundamental interest in promoting the availability of
findings that result from the research they fund,
including research publications and data, to the
widest possible audience, and at the earliest possible
opportunity.
Societal advancement is made possible through
widespread and barrier-free access to cutting-edge
research and knowledge, enabling researchers,
scholars, clinicians, policymakers, private sector and
not-for-profit organizations and the public to use and
build on this knowledge.

25. Policy Objective
to improve access to the results of
Agency-funded research, and to increase
the dissemination and exchange of
research results.
All researchers, regardless of funding
support, are encouraged to adhere to this
policy.

26. Policy Statement:
Peer-reviewed Journal Publications
Grant recipients are required to ensure
that any peer-reviewed journal
publications arising from Agency-supported
research are freely accessible within 12
months of publication. Recipients can do
this through one of the following routes:
a) Online Repositories
b) Journals
http://www.science.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=F6765465-1

27. Online Repositories
Grant recipients can deposit their final,
peer-reviewed manuscript into an
institutional or disciplinary repository that
will make the manuscript freely accessible
within 12 months of publication.
It is the responsibility of the grant recipient
to determine which publishers allow
authors to retain copyright and/or allow
authors to archive journal publications in
accordance with funding agency policies.

28. Journals
Grant recipients can publish in a journal that
offers immediate open access or that offers open
access on its website within 12 months.
Some journals require authors to pay article
processing charges (APCs) to make manuscripts
freely available upon publication.
The cost of publishing in open access journals is
an eligible expense under the Use of Grant
Funds.

29. These routes to open access are not
mutually exclusive.
Researchers are strongly encouraged to
deposit a copy of the final, peer-reviewed
manuscript into an accessible online
repository immediately upon publication,
even if the article is freely available on
the journal’s website.

30. Grant recipients must acknowledge
Agency contributions in all peer-reviewed
publications, quoting the funding
reference number (e.g. FRN, Application
ID).

31. Implementation Date
For research funded in whole or in
part by NSERC or SSHRC, this policy
applies to all grants awarded May 1,
2015 and onward.
While not required, researchers
holding grants that were awarded
prior to May 1, 2015 are encouraged
to adhere to the requirements of
this policy.

38. Thank You

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