Open Access & education: an introduction

Elizabeth Yates, Liaison/Scholarly Communication Librarian

February 2014

Today’s outcomes

You will recall:Characteristics of Open Access

publishing, particularly in EducationCurrent issues such as grant

complianceCopyright considerations Where to find information

Hot button issue: grant funding

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OA

• Free, immediate online access to scholarly research

• No end-user fees• Usually greater freedom for re-use

How is this happening?

• Open Access journals• Online repositories – subject or

institutionally based• Data sharing (not for today )

Rapid growth in OA Journals

Open Access publishing in Education

Search for OA Education journals:1. Directory of Open Access Journals-

www.doaj.org

2. JURN: free arts & humanities journals - www.jurn.org

>find relevant content with keyword searching e.g. teacher education>watch for copyright restrictions

Canadian OA Education journals

• Historical Studies in Education/Revue d'histoire de l'éducation- Queen's University

• International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership - Simon Fraser University

• Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education - University of Alberta

• Canadian Journal of Higher Education - Revue canadienne d’enseignement supérieur - University of British Columbia

• Journal of Teaching and Learning - University of Windsor

• The Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (JCACS) - York University

• Journal of Classroom Research in Literacy - University of Toronto

Open Education Journals @ Brock

Brock Education > Editor: Dr. Julian Kitchen-a peer-reviewed Canadian journal that publishes two

issues a year-focuses on research and practice of teaching, teacher

education and teacher development

Teaching and Learning > Editor: Dr. Tony Di Petta-published by the Brock-Golden Horseshoe Educational

Consortium-focuses on current research and thinking about critical

issues in education that affect schools and boards

Repositories

• Scope:– Subject e.g. arXiv.org– Institutional e.g. Brock’s

Digital Repository

• Content:– Preprint– Final manuscript– Other versions

Education in OA Repositories

• Digital Repository @ Brock University – Education MRPs, Master’s and PhD Education theses

• Education @ University of Toronto's T-Space – research from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) community

• Stanford University School of Education (SUSE) Open Archive - working papers, published articles, and other materials produced by the faculty, staff, and students at Stanford University School of Education

• Education @ University of Ottawa's repository - includes theses, articles, working papers, technical reports, conference papers, etc. from the University of Ottawa's Faculty of education.

OpenDOAR

opendoar.org

• Global database of repositories

• Can search by subject e.g. education

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Fact Fiction?OR

All Open Access journals charge publication fees

Fiction!!Fact > Multiple OA business models*:

-Publication fees- Advertising- Free online, print suscription - Institutional subsidies/technical support- Membership dues- Indexing revenues (e.g. EBSCO, Scopus, Proquest)

*Source: OA journal business models, Open Access Directory: http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_journal_business_models

Fact Fiction?OR

Open Access publishing is incompatible with rigorous

peer review

Fiction!!Fact > OA is fully compatible with rigourous peer review-every journal establishes its own peer-review process: this is independent of how articles are dissemminated (subscription versus OA)

-peer-review itself is problematic and does not guarantee scientific rigour (bias, retractions, fraud)* Smith, R. (2006). Peer review: a flawed process at the heart of science and journals. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 99(4): 178-182. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1420798/Birukou, A., Wakeling, J.R., Bartolini, C., et al. (2011). Alternatives to peer review: novel approaches for research evaluation. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 5 (56). doi: 10.3389/fncom.2011.00056 Jefferson T, Alderson P, Wager E, Davidoff F. (2002). Effects of editorial peer review: a systematic review. JAMA, 287: 2784-6. doi:10.1001/jama.287.21.2784Van Noorden, R. (2011). Science publishing: the trouble with retractions. Nature 478, 26-28. doi:10.1038/478026a

Fact Fiction?OR

Open Access authors retain full copyright

FaCt!!Fact > Fully OA journals allow you retain copyright on your work

-usually, Open Access authors can choose from a variety Creative Commons licenses e.g. CC-BY, CC-BY-NC

Fact Fiction?OR

Articles in OA publications are eligible for

consideration in promotion & tenure

decisions

FaCt!!Fact > P&T committees can decide what counts – including OA publishing

-you confer the prestige-OA is linked to higher impact*-recognizing OA in P&T can open the door for other emerging forms of scholarship

*Mark J. McCabe, Christopher M. Snyder (2013)The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer: The Effect of Open Access on Cites to Science Journals Across the Quality Spectrum, Social Science Research Network SSRN, May 25, 2013

Open Access Effect

- http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/ - Edith Cowan University

- 350,000 downloads since 2011- submissions have increased significantly,

allowing AJTE to publish twelve issues a year while still rejecting sixty percent of submissions

- citation rate for journal has doubled since 2012

Thinking @ OA? Helpful links

Brock Library > About Us > Open Access - www.brocku.ca/library/about-us-lib/openaccess

Brock Library > Services for Faculty > Guidelines for Evaluating a Journal/Publisher – brocku.ca/library/services-lib/faculty/guidelines-for-evaluating-a-journal-publisher

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition – protect your rights as an author > sparc.arl.org/resources/authors/addendum

Questions?

Elizabeth Yateseyates@brocku.caX4469