Introduction to Open Research

FGCU Library presentation on open research focused on Open Access.

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1. Introduction to Open Research FGCU Library
2. What have you heard about Open Access?
4. What is Open Research?
5. Open Access Freely accessible + re-useable
6. Open Data Freely accessible + re-useable
7. creativecommons.org
8. CC-BY John R. McKiernan, whyopenresearch.org
9. CC-BY John R. McKiernan, whyopenresearch.org Increase your visibility
10. CC-BY John R. McKiernan, whyopenresearch.org Get more funding
11. Funders with Public Access Requirements
12. An Open Access, successful academic career is possible.
13. Open Access Concerns • Article Processing Charge (APC) • Impact Factor • Promotion CC-BY John R. McKiernan, whyopenresearch.org
14. Myth #1 Publishing Open Access is the only Open Access
15. OA Two Ways or Publish Open Access Archive Your Research
16. Myth #2 You’re paying to publish
17. It’s a different funding model. Open Access is not vanity publishing. Publishing costs. The APC business model shifts the cost. Rather than subscriptions that only give access to the subscriber, Open Access gives access to all.
18. Myth #3 All Open Access journals charge fees
19. 67% of Open Access journals listed in doaj.org do not have an APC
20. 67% openlibhums.org
21. Myth #4 Open Access journals are low in quality
22. Open Access journals have the same standards of peer review, copyright, quality, prestige, and research impact.
23. Do you want more readers and citations?
24. Openly available research articles and data have a citation advantage.
25. Citation Advantage OpCit Project citation advantage studies: • Number of studies until 2015 - 70 • Studies that found citation advantage - 46 • Studies that found no citation advantage - 17 • Inconclusive or different advantages - 7 sparceurope.org/oaca Citation benefit from Open Data, Piwowar & Vision (2013) peerj.com/articles/175/
26. Finding a suitable Open Access journal 1. Browse the Directory of Open Access journals 2. Use the Cofactor Journal Selector Tool 3. Ask mentors, colleagues, and librarians doaj.org cofactorscience.com/journal-selector
28. Archive your research
31. But what if someone else gets credit?
32. But what if someone else gets credit?
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