Open Access presentation by Vanessa Proudman at the Breda University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. As part of Open Access Week 2013.

1. Open Access
Is here to stay
Open Access Week 2013, NHTV, NL
Vanessa Proudman, Proud2Know
vanessaproudman@proud2know.eu

2. Overview
 What Open Access is
 The changing context of scholarly comms
 When I publish
 Caring for my visibility & impact
 Library support
 What’s next

3. What is Open Access?
“ Open-access (OA) literature is digital,
online, free of charge, and free of most
copyright and licensing restrictions. What
makes it possible is the internet and the
consent of the author or copyright-holder”
A very brief introduction to Open Access.
Peter Suber

4. … sign here

5. Open Access empowers

6. THE CHANGING CONTEXT
OF SCHOLARLY
COMMUNICATION

7. Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2001
 “Open access is economically feasible, it
gives readers extraordinary power to find
and make use of relevant literature, and it
gives authors and their works vast and
measureable new visibility, readership,
and impact.”
www.soros.org/openaccess

8. Arxiv.org, 1991

9. Sets of licenses since 2012

10. Creative Commons

11. Open Access repositories, 2000

Provide digital access to research

Through an interoperable framework (OAI-PMH)

Institutions and subject communities

> 2500 repositories since 2000

Creating a global database of openly-accessible
research

12. Expertbase

13. Directory of Open Access Repositories

14. Open Access journals

Content available to readers free of charge

Some journals charge a publishing fee

Although more than 50% do not

To date, over 8000 OA journals (doaj.org)
vs over 65,000 a total of peer-reviewed journals

15. Springer Open

16. BioMed Central

17. OA: Jacco Bikker

18. OA: M. Landré and P. Peeters

19. Open Journals System (OJS)

20. Ubiquity Press

21. DOAJ

22. The choice in journals is increasing
from Laakso, M., & Björk, B.-C. (2012). Anatomy of open access publishing: a study of longitudinal
development and internal structure. BMC Medicine, 10(1), 124. doi:10.1186/1741-7015-10-124

23. Pubmed Central

24. SCOAP3

25. Knowledge Unlatched

26. Open Access Books

27. FUNDERS AND INSTITUTIONS
ARE SUPPORTING THIS
CHANGE

28. Wellcome Trust Mandate, 2005

29. NIH Public Access Policy, 2008

30. The Finch Report (UK), 2012

31. RCUK Open Access Policy, 2012

32. NWO Open Access Policy

33. NWO

34. NWO Publicaties

35. NWO Conferentiebijdrage

36. Open ACCESS PILOT FP7

37. OpenAIRE

38. EU Horizon 2020

39. ROARMAP OA mandate growth 3/13

40. EUR Open Access Policy

41. Open Access Fund

42. WHEN I PUBLISH

43. Open Access publishing choices
 Gold Open Access Publishing
 The Hybrid Model
 Green Self-Archiving
 Disciplinary dissemination
 Overlay journals

44. Routes to Open Access
Green self-archiving
Gold publishing
Publish a refereed journal
article in an institutional
repository, a regional
repository or disciplinary
one
Provide free, immediate
access to articles or books.
Hybrid journals provide Gold
OA for authors who pay an
up-front-fee to publish on
their journals’ website.

45. CARING FOR YOUR
VISIBILITY AND IMPACT

46. The PEER Project
 Investigated the potential effects of the
large-scale, systematic depositing of
authors final peer-reviewed manuscripts
on reader access, author visibility, and
journal viability, and EU research
 Increase in traffic by 11% to pub version

47. Citations
Engineering
20
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
OA
Non-­‐OA
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Data: Gargouri & Harnad, 2010

48. Citations
Clinical medicine
Data: Gargouri & Harnad, 2010

49. Citations
Social science
Data: Gargouri & Harnad, 2010

50. Citation impact
Ref: A. Swan Open Access Seminar, Bergen, Norway,
25/26 September 2013

51. Ref: A. Swan Open Access Seminar, Bergen, Norway,
25/26 September 2013

52. Ray Frost’s impact
Ref: A. Swan Open Access Seminar, Bergen, Norway,
25/26 September 2013

53. Altmetrics

54. LIBRARY SUPPORT

55. University of Southampton Support

56. Writing, Johns Hopkins Sheridan
Libraries

57. Sherpa/ROMEO

58. Green Elsevier

59. NHTV’s Copyright Information Point

60. Open Access at UCL

61. Open Access for RCUK Research

62. Open Access Fund

63. QUT

64. QUT 2

65. TU Delft’s patentportfolio

66. What can you do as an author?
 Deposit your articles in an open access
archive
 Submit your article to OA journals
 Consider launching an OA journal
 Consider launching a subject repository
 If you are a journal editor, referee or
author, discuss OA and lobby for more OA
experimentation