Open Access Publishing

We'll cover a variety of journal and book publishing models that can be described as "open access" and consider issues associated with article processing charges (APCs), "predatory" publishers, and access.

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1. Open Access Publishing
2. Session Goals • Gain comfort in discussing Open Access Publishing – Speak the language – Have a general awareness of the issues • Know the key information resources for learning about OA Publications • Develop an understanding of author concerns about OA publishing • Be able to help an author evaluate potential OA publishers
3. Image from OAWAL, CC-BY 3.0 What are we talking about?
4. Check-in How does your role relate to this topic? What experiences do you have with this topic so far? Have you heard any specific concerns about OA Publishing from researchers/authors? Is there anything specific you hope to get out of or contribute to this session?
5. Loose Definitions Gold OA • Peer-reviewed material freely available by the publisher in its regular publishing platform • Some definitions require: • No temporary access restrictions • All articles in the journal are open • No registration required to access articles Open • Re-use rights usually aren’t required • Less than one-quarter of OA journals use CC-BY as the standard license (acc to 2015 DOAJ)
6. OA Journals Scale of OA publishing: • around 20 percent of refereed scholarly articles in 2013 (and 25% of the journals) • around six times as many articles in 2013 as in 2006 OA Journals in all subject areas Directory of Open Access Journals
7. Funding OA Journal Publishing Institutional subsidies Fundraising Advertising Related sales Article Processing Charges (APCs) Publication fee Author publishing charge Submission fees
8. Enter: Potential Profits Fees to enable goal of OA led to funders motivated to support OA led to commercial entities motivated by availability of funds “Idealism to Opportunity” – Walt Crawford
9. Publishing Fees • 73% of OA journals have no author fees • 43% of OA articles are in journals with no author fee • Fees range from $8 - $5000 per article Fees differ across disciplines • History: $10/article and 2% fee-based • Biology: $1228/article, 76% fee-based • Media & Comm: $105/article, 37% fee-based According to Walt Crawford work on DOAJ data from March 2015, does not include Hybrid journals
10. Mega Journals PLOS ONE Nature Communications Scientific Reports (also from Nature) Heliyon (from Elsevier) • Different type of review • Different interface style and goals • High fees
11. A few more terms… Hybrid journals journal to publish some OA articles and some non-OA articles, when the choice between the two is the author's rather than the editor's Platinum OA OA-only journals Double-dipping Charging APCs but same price to subscribers
12. Activity On your own • Choose an article you’ve written or recently read in a field you work in • Find a potential OA journal for it • Try to find how to submit to that journal and identify what fees may be involved.
13. Activity Discussion What journal did you find and how did you find it? Any concerns over actually publishing there? What would you be considering as a faculty author when determining if you would submit to that journal?
14. Scamminess and Impact
15. Whose Agenda? Balance library agenda: Long-run cost reductions for libraries Unsustainability of current model More access to more scholarship for more people With author concerns: Is it worth the costs? How will it impact tenure and promotion issues?
16. The DOAJ Seal The seal is awarded to journals that meet these criteria: • use DOIs as permanent identifiers; • provides DOAJ with article metadata; • deposits content with a long term digital preservation or archiving program; • embeds machine-readable CC licensing information in articles; • allows generous reuse and mixing of content, in accordance with a CC BY, CC BY-SA or CC BY-NC license; • has a deposit policy registered wíth a deposit policy registry; • allows the author to hold the copyright without restrictions. Who’s going to be interested in these?
17. Talking with our researchers Recognize their concerns Allow them to articulate their concerns Recognize ease of confusion over terms and language Helping identify scams and articulate impact ACTIVITY: try evaluating “scamminess” of open journal found in earlier activity using suggestion from Crawford handout
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19. What’s Next? Authors’ Rights Management Wed, Mar. 15, 2:00-3:30 at Steenbock Thurs, Mar. 16, 9:30-11:00 at Memorial Digital Scholarship & Scholarly Communication 101 Wed, Jan. 11, 2:00-3:30 at Steenbock Thurs, Jan. 12, 9:30-11:00 at Memorial Library 126 Open Research & Reproducibility Wed, Feb. 15, 2:00-3:30 at Steenbock Thurs, Feb 16, 9:30-11:00 at Memorial Digital Project Planning Wed, Apr. 12, 2:00-3:30 at Steenbock Thurs, Apr. 13, 9:30-11:00 at Memorial