Open Publishing – risk or opportunity?

Open up your research and kick-start your research career Rikshospitalet 23/10/14

Elin Stangeland, Oslo University Library

Open Access?

Immediate, free and unrestricted online

access to digital scholarly material.

The University of Oslo's Open Access Policy

The following applies to peer-reviewed scientific articles:

1. Mandatory institutional archiving of all peer-reviewed articles in UiO's institutional repository. All members of staff employed by UiO after 4 July 2013 are obliged to deposit a post‐print version of scientific articles produced in connection with the employment relationship into the institutional repository.

UiO also encourages all members of staff whose employment commenced prior to 4 July 2013 to follow this practice.

The "post‐print" version means the final manuscript version following peer-review. When the publisher permits institutional archiving of the publisher's pdf, then this is the preferred choice. If publication takes place in a journal that does not allowinstitutional archiving, and the employee, after inquiring, is not granted such permission by the publisher, the person concerned is relieved of this requirement. If one or more co-authors use their right of refusal, the same applies.

2. Making scientific articles deposited into the institutional repository openly available

All members of staff employed by UiO after 4 July 2013 shall undertake to do their best to ensure that scientific articles deposited into the institutional repository can be made openly available as soon as possible.(1)

UiO also encourages all members of staff whose employment commenced prior to 4 July 2013 to comply with this practice of making scientific articles openly available.

3. Choosing where to publish

When choosing where to publish, UiO recommends that all employees select journals that allow the article to be openly available. These may either be Open Access journals or those that permit articles to be deposited and made openly available in an institutional repository.

(1) See Section 2.3.6. in UiO's IPR policy dated 6 December 2011.

Publishing today

• 24,000 scholarly journals

• 1.5 million publications/year

• 3% annual growth

• 1 million authors

• 10-15 million readers at >10,000 institutions

• 1.5 billion downloads/yearSource: Mabe MA (2009): Scholarly Publishing. European Review 17(1): 3-22

Slide courtesy: Björn Brembs, Freie Universität Berlinhttp://brembs.net

Navigating research

• Finding relevant research

• Filtering findings– 1.5 million publications per year

in 24,000 journals

– It is impossible to read everything!

• Rankings a silver bullit?– Impact factor

• What about quality?– Peer review

However…

• Experimentation with publishing– Open access publishing– Open data and code

• Experimentation with ranking schemes– Altmetrics– PLOS metrics– SCOPUS - SJR indicator

• New approaches to peer-review– Re-engineering the process– Open peer-review

Why open?

• Return of investment– Increased economic productivity

– Increased competitiveness

– Increased visibility

• Research democratisation– Contributing to a democratic society – publicly funded

research should be publicly available

– Researchers’ and students’ access should not depend on institutional budgets

– A smarter society…

Important for the researcher?

• Increased visibility, readership and impact– Citations– Swan, Alma (2010) The Open Access citation advantage: Studies and results to date. Technical

report. http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/268516

• Increased efficiency– By spending less time looking for papers, you free up

time

• Keep copyright to your own work

• Opportunities– Interdisciplinary research

Open Access-journals

• No barriers, available freely on internet

• Peer reviewed

• Keep copyright

• Article processing fee (APC)

• Average cost NOK 10.000 (= USD 1.700, EUR 1.220, GBP 1.015)

Which journal?

• Supervisor and colleagues

• Look at the Directory of Open Access journals (DOAJ)

• Check the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers

Predatory journals

How to identify them…

• They email you…often…

• Author pays – unclear prices• Dodgy looking web pages• Many journal titles – individual content thin• Publisher location and address is vague• Editorial team information is limited or

untrustworthy• Bad peer-review processes

Avoiding them

If in doubt

• Talk to colleagues

• Google the journal

• Look at the Directory of Open Access journals (DOAJ)

• Check the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers

• Is it listed in PubMed?

• Contact the UiO Open Access team

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Publication fund

• Administered by the library

• 2013: NOK 500.000

• 2014: NOK 2.000.000= USD 340.000, EUR 245.000, GBP 200.000

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Guidelines (1)• Only the corresponding author may

apply for support.

• The corresponding author must be affiliated with UiO as an employee or as a student.

• The publication fund covers article processing charges in Open Access journals only.

Guidelines (2)• The journal must be registered in the

Directory of Open Access Journals.

• The journal must be registered at level 1 or 2 in the Norwegian register of scientific journals

• Submit application early

http://www.ub.uio.no/english/publishing/scientists/publication-fund/index.html

Thanks!

Images courtesy:

– Colourbox.no

– Pixabay.com