1. Open publishing: its future and what it offers you as a researcher Dr Neil Jacobs

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6. Is this convincing? A General OA Advantage: the advantage that comes from citable articles becoming available to audiences that had not had access to them before, and who would find them citable An Early Advantage: the earlier an article is put before its worldwide potential audience may affect subsequent citation patterns A Selection Bias: authors make their better articles Open Access more readily than their poorer articles A Quality Advantage: better articles gain more from the General OA Advantage because they are by definition more citable than poorer articles `

7. Why might Oxford care? Widespread use of repositories gives: £115m p.a. efficiency savings (mainly researchers saving time in reading / writing) £172m p.a. benefits to the UK economy (innovation, improved practice) Cost-benefit ratios (depending on assumptions) up to 50:1 and more (before any potential subscription cancellations) Bibliometrics... Impact... Reporting... Planning... REF Research Councils mandates, reporting (Houghton, J, et al, 2009, Economic implications of alternative scholarly publishing models: Exploring the costs and benefits: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2009/economicpublishingmodelsfinalreport.aspx)

8. Is this convincing? Issues with the transition to OA Funding OA publishing Transparency in payments Practical arrangements Getting researchers to put papers into repositories! What would it take? Need to be much clearer about how benefits arise to UKplc Future of learned societies reliant on subscription income Longer term future of publishing – data, blogs, facebook...

9. How to be open: 1. doctoral theses Electronic management, submission and sharing of theses Real need for an opt-out in some cases... But also red herrings... UK E-Thesis Service – EThOS Theses harvested from Oxford’s repository Theses digitised if not available electronically UK service, but part of wider European and international network

10. How to be open: 2. research papers Put your papers in Oxford’s repository ORA Papers will feature in Google Scholar, EconomistsOnline, etc, and be easily accessible by the people you want to read and cite them

11. How to be open: 2. research papers ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk

12. How to be open: 2. research papers Put your papers in Oxford’s repository ORA Papers will feature in Google Scholar, Econlit, etc, and be easily accessible by the people you want to read and cite them Publish in an Open Access Journal. 185 journals in business and management and 143 journals in economics Funding from Research Councils – need to include in project bids

13. How to be open: 2. research papers www.doaj.org

14. How to be open: 2. research papers Put your papers in Oxford’s repository ORA Papers will feature in Econlit Publish in an Open Access Journal. 185 journals in business and management and 143 journals in economics Funding from Research Councils – need to include in project bids Working papers from the following organisations are already available via Repec: Saïd Business School Department of Economics Nuffield College Nuffield Centre for Experimental Social Sciences Centre for the Study of African Economies Queen Elizabeth House

15. What about copyright? It’s yours! Many publishers ask you to give it to them when you publish papers to develop electronic publications and their delivery to meet customer needs and create maximum dissemination of authors' work. to protect authors' moral rights and their work from plagiarism, unlawful copying and any other infringement of copyright. to recoup copyright fees from reproduction rights organizations to reinvest in new initiatives and author/user services to provide an efficient service for permissions. But if you no longer own your work, then there are limits on what you can do with it, in particular Can you put it on the web for others to read?

16. What about copyright? www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

17. What about copyright? It’s yours! Many publishers ask you to give it to them when you publish papers to develop electronic publications and their delivery to meet customer needs and create maximum dissemination of authors' work. to protect authors' moral rights and their work from plagiarism, unlawful copying and any other infringement of copyright. to recoup copyright fees from reproduction rights organizations to reinvest in new initiatives and author/user services to provide an efficient service for permissions. But if you no longer own your work, then there are limits on what you can do with it, in particular Can you put it on the web for others to read? There are alternatives

18. What about copyright? http://copyrighttoolbox.surf.nl

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21. And you may want to ask your repository manager and/or publisher for:

22. Detailed usage statistics – who has downloaded your papers?

24. How to be open: 4. data Legally Whose is it? (and what does that mean?) In some cases, consent issues Freedom of Information and equivalent regulations for environmental data Research practice Researchers have rights to derive results and papers from their data But there is are both research and public benefits in some data being more widely available Policy initiatives Research Councils agreeing a common position; data management plans... Data.gov.uk Infrastructure Universities are developing significant capacity (inter)national, eg UK Data Archive, NERC Data Centres, EBI

25. Open Science? ?? Research communication is changing, part of much wider changes in the ways in which research is done Open notebook science, sharing data live, as it is collected Publish in open formats for tools (egtextmining) Open Access journals and repositories Open peer commentary, annotation, tagging Open innovation models with more permissive IPR models Only publish a summary report of the research Publish in PDF for human readers Subscription-based journals Anonymous peer review Relations with commercial sector via consultancies and joint projects with closed IPR model ? Neil Jacobs: n.jacobs@jisc.ac.uk