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Brave new world: More access, more

impact, more control

Elizabeth Yates, Liaison/Scholarly Communication Librarian

Brock University May 2014

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Your research WILL have a digital life. You have the

opportunity to control that life.

-- Micah Vandegrift, Scholarly Communications Librarian @ Florida State University

Today’s outcomes

You will recall:-characteristics of new (and old) forms of research dissemination-key facts about your rights as a scholar-strategies for increasing the impact of your research

Publishing then

Publishing now

• Open, online journals

• Digital academic presses

• Online repositories

• Funding agency policies supporting OA

• Greater support for author rights

OA

• Free, immediate online access to scholarly research

• No end-user fees• Usually greater freedom for re-use

Morrison, H. (2014). Dramatic Growth of Open Access: December 31, 2013: first open source edition.

http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/

Growth of OA publishing

OA Policies: global growth

http://roarmap.eprints.org/

How does it work?

Publishing is not free!

Costs are covered by means such as:• Article processing fees• Advertising• Sponsorship by a scholarly society• Researcher memberships

Finding Open Access sources

Directory of Open Access Journals www.doaj.org/

-search by subject, country, etc.

Directory of Open Access Books www.doabooks.org/

-search by keywords, author, etc.

BASE – Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

http://www.base-search.net/

-retrieves OA academic web sources: more than 60 million documents from more than 3,000 sources (can search by theses)

Other models

• Non-traditional “journals”• Repositories• Open books

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Innovative platforms

Repositories

• Scope:– Subject e.g. arXiv.org– Institutional e.g. Brock’s Digital Repository

> your theses will likely end up in an IR

• Content:– Preprint– Final manuscript– Other versions

OpenDOAR

opendoar.org

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Brock Digital Repository

http://dr.library.brocku.ca/handle/10464/1147

• Our students’ work is visible to the world• Indexed in Google Scholar, SuperSearch,

etc.• Statistics for views

Open Access = greater impact

Open Access Citation effect:• Open Access articles are cited

significantly more than non-OA articles

Article downloads:• Open Access articles are downloaded

signficantly more than non-OA articles

VS

Open Access = more rights

Copyright: What is it? Why does it matter?

• a form of intellectual property• takes effect the moment a work is “fixed”

(doesn’t apply to ideas, facts)• applies to all genres – books, periodicals,

charts, software, films, music, works of art• Protects your rights as a creator:– to reproduce, publish, alter, sell, etc. the work– copyright infringement > is unauthorized copying

or use of a work

What can you do?

No. 1 > Read your copyright agreements!

• research your publication options• negotiate more copy-rights• use Creative Commons licensing --

creativecommons.org• publish with an Open Access platform

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Summing up

• Research is being shared more openly via OA journals, books, etc.

• Researchers can benefit from OA via greater impact, more control over your work

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