Open Access What you need to know about Open Access

Louise Tripp Subject Librarian: English, European Languages, Linguistics, Open Access The Library (CETAD Building) l.tripp@lancaster.ac.uk Tel. (01524) 592546

Tanya Williamson Assistant Librarian The Library (CETAD Building) t.williamson1@lancaster.ac.uk Tel. (01524) 594284

What is Open Access?

We mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers… … the only role for copyright in this domain should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited. (Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002)

Green – Unformatted, final version of article (AAM) deposited on institutional or subject repository Gold/Hybrid – articles published in journal and made freely available (subject to APC) APC – Article processing charge, fee paid to publishers for Gold OA AAM (Post-print) – Author accepted manuscript, final peer-reviewed, accepted version without publisher formatting

Some Open Access terms

Why is Open Access relevant? • Benefits:

• visibility and impact, citations • challenges publisher model and increasing subscription

rates • contributes to increasing our capacity for attracting funding • author retains copyright

• Journal publishers changing from traditional subscription model

to OA journals/hybrid journals (Gold Open Access)

Why is Open Access relevant? • RCUK OA Policy since 1 April 2013 (journal articles/conference

proceedings with ISSN)

• HEFCE’s OA policy for next REF: • journal articles and conference proceedings in

institutional/subject repository within 3 months of acceptance (Green OA)

• Outputs should be in readable/searchable format so can be re-used

• Should be author accepted manuscript (embargoes allowed up to 12/24 months)

• Exceptions – deposit, access and technical

How do I make my research publications Open Access?

Green route • Place AAM in institutional repository (and may also deposit in subject

repository) • Publishers may impose an embargo – check Sherpa Romeo

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ or Sherpa FACT http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/fact/

• Apply suitable Creative Commons licence to control access to your work https://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Gold route • Pay an APC for immediate open publication • Funding for APCs provided by RCUK for their research

How do I get funding to make my research Open Access?

RCUK Funding • Applies to journal articles/conference proceedings • Block funding allocated - £165k for 2014/2015 (£140k last year) • Prefer immediate OA (Gold) or Green within 6/12 months • Must use CC-BY licence for Gold or CC BY-NC or CC BY for Green http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/library/information-for/researchers/disseminating-research/open-access/funding/ Horizon 2020 • Can apply for funding at point of grant application • OA policy applies to all funded research LU Funding 25k will be available later this year - to pay for OA charges for non-RCUK research (will be limited to 4* research)

• Library support for researchers http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/library/support-for/support-for-research/ – Open Access – RDM

• Open Access support openaccess@lancaster.ac.uk

• Research Data management support rdm@lancaster.ac.uk

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