Author Rights, Access to Scholarship, and Managing the Impact of your Research

Rebecca Kuglitsch and Katie LageJerry Crail Johnson Earth Sciences & Map LibraryUniversity of Colorado Boulder LibrariesDepartment of Geological Sciences Colloquium, 11/12/14

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Today we’ll talk about...• Author Rights & Access to Scholarship

– Open Access– CU Scholar– Open Data

• Managing the Impact of Your Research

Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment.

from SPARC® (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)

Open Access

Open Access: DefinitionsPaths to Open Access:

● Gold OA: publishing in an open access journal● Green OA: self-archiving versions of published articles in a

repositoryDegrees of OA:

● Gratis: no cost for readers to access an article● Libre: no costs and also free of certain restrictions on re-

use, re-publication and re-mixing o Managed with licenses, for example: Creative

Commons Hybrid journals: a subscription journal in which some of the articles are open accessMore information: http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/scholarlycommunications/

Author RightsQ: Why should I retain my copyright?

A: More readers, greater impact.

Q: How do I retain my rights?

A: Attach an author's addendum to your contract.

A: University policies can help with this negotiation.

from http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/scholarlycommunication/manage_your_rights.html

Open Access: University Policies

Other institutions:● Harvard● University of California● ROARMAP registry

http://roarmap.eprints.org/

CU-Boulder:● BFA/UGGS Open

Access Resolution● University Libraries

o http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/scholarlycommunications/oa/oaresolution.htm

● BFA resolution

To ensure that research articles written by faculty at an institution are available to the public at no charge.

OA Journals

Have you published in one?● GeoRef Open Access Journals/Series

o http://www.americangeosciences.org/georef/open-access-journalsseries

● Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene● PLOS ONE

Open Access: OA FundUniversity Libraries Open Access Fund:● To support publishing in OA journals by

subsidizing the processing fee● Up to $2000● Supports fully OA journals (not hybrid)

Open Data

Why?Data sharing benefits the researcher, research sponsors, data repositories, the scientific community, and the public. It encourages more connection and collaboration between scientists, and better science leads to better decisionmaking. USGS http://on.doi.gov/1tIJHm8

● Funding Agency requirementso DMPTool list http://bit.ly/1qEskTM

● Trend towards citing datasetso DOIs for datasets

Open Data: Tools & Resources● DMPTool https://dmptool.org/

● PetaLibrary https://www.rc.colorado.edu/services/storage/petalibrary

● Repositorieso CU Scholaro figshare http://figshare.com/

o Journal/publishero Subject repositoryo Registry of research data repositories: re3data.org

http://bit.ly/1xu0caU

● Research Data Services at CU-Boulder o data-help@colorado.edu

CU Scholar: What is it?

● CU’s institutional repository● Makes your work more available

● Provides permanent URLs for your worko So it stays available

CU Scholar: What types of content can you upload?

• “...research, scholarship, and creative work being conducted at the University.”

• Most file types are acceptedo Including sound, image and data fileso Data sets should be “publishable”o For any questions, or if it’s over 2GB,

andrew.m.johnson@colorado.edu

CU Scholar: What are you allowed to put in it?

• Anything published in an open access journal

• Whatever your author agreement allowso Not sure? Check Sherpa/Romeo

• Questions about permissions? o Email your librarian or Jennifer Chan,

Scholarly Communication Librarian jennifer.chan@colorado.edu

CU Scholar: How to use it

For help, email cuscholar@colorado.edu

CU Scholar Metrics

Researcher Profile Tools

Increase your impact

Profile Tools Can:

● Increase your reach● Make your professional presence more

evident● Make it easier to find collaborators● Help you track traditional and altmetrics

Tools from CU: Profile● ORCiD & VIVO

o Automatic at CUo Under development

Profile & Sharing● CU Scholar

o Tracks downloads

Other Profile & Tracking ServicesProfile & tracking● Academia.edu● ResearchGate● Google Scholar Profiles● Figshare (secondarily)

Other tracking tools● ResearcherID

o Thompson-Reuters

Key Characteristics

•Academia.edu, ResearchGate, or Google Scholar Profiles if you want a profile right now.

Especially good for grad students

•Mendeley if you want a collaboration and citation tool, too.

•VIVO & CU Scholar if you want the university to do the work and can wait for full functionality from VIVO.

A Process for Choosing

Figshare + CU Scholar + Google Scholar Profiles

For most CU faculty, we recommend:

● Sharing data and posters with Figshareo Track views

o Associate with coauthors

● Sharing papers with CU Scholaro Track downloads

● Tracking citations with Google Scholar Profileso Includes broader variety of citations, h-index, etc.

Resources● Libraries Scholarly Communications Portal:

http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/scholarlycommunications/● CU’s Open Access fund

http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/scholarlycommunications/oa/oafund.htm● GeoRef Open Access Journals/Series

http://www.americangeosciences.org/georef/open-access-journalsseries ● SPARC® http://sparc.arl.org/issues/open-access● Author Rights http://sparc.arl.org/resources/authors/addendum ● Research Data Services https://data.colorado.edu/services ● PetaLibrary https://www.rc.colorado.edu/services/storage/petalibrary ● Registry of reserach data repositories http://re3data.org ● CU Scholar http://scholar.colorado.edu/● SHERPA/RoMEO http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/● figshare http://figshare.com/