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1. What’s All the Fuss About
Open Access?
School of Nursing Faculty Meeting
A.R. Dykes Library
November 2011
2. Points for Today
• Why should I publish in an OA
journal?
• How do I select and OA
journal?
• What are some current OA
developments?
3. What is Open Access?
• OA is the free, online availability of
scientific articles and data with the rights
to re-use in a digital environment.
4. What are the Benefits of OA?
-Makes research widespread
-Accelerates scientific findings
-Serves as a driver of
scientific innovation and
productivity
-Allows faster incorporation of
new findings into new research
5. What are the Benefits of OA?
• Article spreads like wildfire when released
openly and immediately
• Focus is on article impact rather than
journal impact
• Faculty of 1000 – follows articles making
impact on the research wherever they
appear by their individual merits.
6. Open Access Journals
• Peer reviewed journals are plentiful
• Quality controlled
• Free to viewers- Full Text
• All subject and many languages
7. Evaluating a Publication
• Impact factor?
• Peer reviewed?
• Publication fees?
• Abstracted and indexed in
CINAHL, PubMed, Web of Science, other?
• Promotion & Tenure?
• I just want to get published.
• I’m not particular about the journal
as long as it’s not pornographic.
8. Selecting an
Open Access Journal
• Directory of Open Access Journals
– Subject specific
– Review author instructions
– Look for author fees
– Look for copyright transfer agreement or
statement declaring copyright retention
9. Selecting and
Open Access Journal
• Journal Citation Reports
– (look up journal impact factors)
11. What About OA Fees?
• Articles fees run from free to $$$$
• Author pays
• Funding support for OA publishing has not
been established at KUMC
12. What is the Status Quo?
• The current model of subscription/license
fees is not stable and not sustainable
• Current model gives publishers exclusive
rights to the articles
13. Status Quo
• Open Access is here to stay
• Funding mechanisms need to be
established
14. Current Developments in OA
• Focus started with opening journal article
• Data sharing is hot and moving forward
• KU is a signatory of the Berlin9 OA
Compact as of November, 2011
15. Federal Action on OA
• 2011 White House Public Comment:
Request for Information
– Seeking recommendations for how to expand
the NIH Public Access Policy to include 11
other federal agencies that award public
research funding.
– KU will be submitting responses
16. Questions?
Crystal Cameron-Vedros
Head of Copyright and Scholarly
Communications, Biomedical Librarian
cvedros@kumc.edu
Heather Collins
School of Nursing Biomedical Librarian
hcollins@kumc.edu
Karen Cole
Director, A.R. Dykes Library
kcole@kumc.edu
Notes de l'éditeur
Provide more detail regarding the landscapeProvide some actions which might allow us to embrace these changes
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