OPEN ACCESS FOR RESEARCH:

THE LIBRARIAN OVERVIEW OF OPPORTUNITIES AND TRENDS

Pavlinka KovatchevaFaculty Librarian: Science, University of Johannesburg

E-mail: pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za

Vaal University of Technology

Open Access Mini-Seminar,

25 October 2012

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Open Access for ResearchInstitutional Repositories Publishers Subscription & Open Access

JournalsAfrican & South African Open Access

JournalsOpen Access Journal Collections & Web

ResourcesSocial Media and Research Librarian Support to Researchers

OPEN ACCESS FOR RESEARCH

•What Researchers should know about OA• Accredited Open Access Journals

•Funding Opportunities for Publishing in OA

OPEN ACCESS FOR RESEARCH

Open Access.... Maximises the access to the research findings; Increases research impact to a wider readership; Expands shared knowledge across scientific field; Make your research output more visible to

researchers elsewhere and make research from elsewhere more accessible;

Universities and Research Institutions afford to subscribe to a fraction of those journals, that means that research is having only a fraction of its potential usage and impact

Increases the citation impact of the author; Over time increases the Journal Impact Factor (?)

WHAT ELSE DO RESEARCHERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OA?

What OA journals exist in your research field? - Open Science Directory, BioMed Central, PloS,

DOAJ ... What Institutional Repository your institution

use and how a researchers can benefit from it? - UJDigispace; VUT’s DigiResearch

Publishing in subscription-based journals, can limit your readership (Science Direct; Wiley Online, SpringerLink, etc.)

Publishing your pre-print article in OA repositories can enlarge your readership and citation impact: Arxiv.org; UJDigispace; VUT’s DigiResearch ....

Deposit your post-prints in a OA Repository: UJDigispace, VUT’s DigiResearch ....

As a Researcher you have an option to publish in Accredited Open Access Journals (AOAJSA)

FUNDING FOR PUBLISHING IN OA JOURNALS

Funding options: OA journals do not generate revenue Some OA Publishers receive funding in exchange

for advertising on their web Some OA journals require payments from the

Authors for article submission Government can subsidise OA Publishers

/Institutions for producing freely available information

International funding agencies (Collaboration) Institutional Membership paid on behalf of the

Authors

ACCREDITED OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS – SOUTH AFRICA (AOAJSA) HTTP://WWW.AIS.UP.AC.ZA/AOAJSA.HTM

SOUTH AFRICAN & INTERNATIONALINSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES (IR)

SELF- ARCHIVINGFACILITATE EASY-ACCESS

ENHANCE RESEARCH IMPACT

UJDigispace : UJ IRIRSpace: South African IR

Open DOAR: International IR DirectoryDriver: IR for European Research

https://ujdigispace.uj.ac.za/

UJDIGISPACE SEPTEMBER 2012: STATISTICS

http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=013518019117943970829%3Atlw8-sayn_q

OPEN DOAR HTTP://WWW.OPENDOAR.ORG/SEARCH.PHP

DRIVER FOR EUROPEAN RESEARCH HTTP://SEARCH.DRIVER.RESEARCH-INFRASTRUCTURES.EU/

PUBLISHERS SUBSCRIPTIONS &

OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

UJ SUBSCRIPTION-BASED DATABASESOVER 150 DATABASES IN 2011; OVER R 7.5 MILLIONS

PUBLISHERS OPEN ACCESS INITIATIVES (1)

Rapid publication Quality, reputation and high standard of peer

review Impact Factors and Thomson Reuters (ISI)

citation tracking High visibility and international readership in

your field Included in all major bibliographic databases You retain copyright, licensing the article under a

Creative Commons license From broad to specialist interest journals No space constraints

http://www.springeropen.com/

PUBLISHERS OPEN ACCESS INITIATIVES

(2)

 Articles published in these journals are freely available to anyone

To support the costs associated with publishing, article processing fees apply. 

These cover costs including: managing the peer review process, supporting our publishing and hosting platforms, typesetting, marketing and other publishing costs.

These are paid by the author (or their funding body or institution) after acceptance.

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/intro.cws_home/open_access

Wiley Open Access offers authors, readers, institutions, funders and societies:

Open access to their research: freely available on Wiley Online Library and PubMed Central

Fast efficient publication Quality and authoritative open access publishing Stringent peer review High-level editorial support – each journal has a dedicated Editor-

in-Chief and international editorial board members as well as clear editorial policies

Longevity guaranteed – Wiley Open Access journals are published by Wiley, one of the world's foremost academic and professional publishers and the largest society publisher

Article and institutional-level metrics Easy sharing – social networking and more

PUBLISHERS OPEN ACCESS INITIATIVES

(3)

http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/view/index.html

http://creativecommons.org/about/license/

AFRICAN & SOUTH AFRICAN OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

•SABINET: African Journals Online Archives

•SABINET: Open Access South African Journals

•SciElo (Academy of Science of SA– ASSAF)

AFRICAN JOURNALS ARCHIVE: FREE ACCESS TO JOURNALS WITH A FOCUS IN SCIENCES, SOCIAL

SCIENCES AND HUMANITIESHTTP://WWW.AJARCHIVE.ORG

SOUTH AFRICAN OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

The collection currently comprises 46 South African journals Multidisciplinary collection

Searched individually15 OA Journals are Accredited/Approved

Journals (DoE, ISI, IBSS)The copyright of each journal in this

collection resides with the publisher of the journal.

The journals are also available on SA ePublications database

http://www.sabinet.co.za/?page=open-access-journals

http://www.sabinet.co.za/?page=open-access-journals

http://www.scielo.org.za

Academy of Science of South Africa – ASSAf

The Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) SA  is South Africa’s premier open-access (free to access and free to publish) searchable full-text journal database in service of the South African research community. • The database covers a selected

collection of peer-reviewed South African scholarly journals and forms an integral part of the SciELO Brazil project.

• SciELO SA is managed by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), funded by the South African Department of Science and Technology and endorsed by the South African Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET).

OPEN ACCESSJOURNAL COLLECTIONS &

WEB RESOURCES

OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL COLLECTIONS & WEB RESOURCES

http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/

Source

http://www.doaj.org

http://www.biomedcentral.com/

http://www.chemistrycentral.com/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc

http://bmjopen.bmj.com/

http://www.plos.org/

http://www.plos.org/about/open-access/howopenisit/

BASE: BIELEFELD ACADEMIC SEARCH ENGINEACADEMIC OPEN ACCESS WEB RESOURCES

http://www.base-search.net

GOLONKA RESOURCESE-MATH FOR AFRICA; E-PHYSICS FOR AFRICA; E-CHEMISTRY FOR AFRICA

e-Physics for Africa: http://physics.golonka.se/

e-Math for Africa: http://math.golonka.org/

e-Chemistry for Africa: http://chemistry.golonka.se/

The main purpose is to promote the use of Open Access journals and other

scientific resources, as well as being a platform for consortia building.

http://arxiv.org

http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596

INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS: HOT FROM THE PRESS

IOP have adopted a more liberal Creative Commons license (CC-BY 3.0) for future articles published on a gold open access basis. 

This license allows others to distribute, re-mix, amend, and build upon a piece of work as long as they credit the original creation.

The licenses grant rights to the users of the content but do not replace the copyright, which remains with the copyright holder.

The change applies to articles being published on an open access basis in all IOP-owned hybrid journals and the gold open access titles Environmental Research Letters and New Journal of Physics ...... 

(e-mail, 24/10/2012)

GOOGLE SCHOLAR (ACADEMIC ARTICLES)(HTTP://SCHOLAR.GOOGLE.COM)

SOCIAL MEDIA & RESEARCH

Social Media can help Researchers:

Promote their research; Connect with other researchers & share resources

Source

HOW SOCIAL MEDIA CAN HELP RESEARCHERS?

Making Research Publications available in an Open Access Repository is not enough! (Kelly, 2012)

Social media provides opportunities for the “connected researchers” to engage more effectively with their peers and raise the visibility of their research outputs which can help in enhancing citations of their papers and implementation of the ideas.

The use of Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Social media sharing tools such as Slideshare and research profiling services such as LinkedIn, Academia.edu, Mendeley to develop successful research collaborations

Read the article “Open Access and Open Practices for the Connected Researcher”, Bryan Kelly (2012)

Source

http://academia.edu/

LIBRARIANS SUPPORT TO RESEARCHERS

“Never Underestimate the Importance of a librarian”

- Elsevier-

UJ SCIENCES LIBRARIAN SUPPORT

http://ujsciencelibrarian.pbworks.com/w/page/6193643/FrontPage

UJ SCIENCES OPEN ACCESS PORTAL

HTTP://UJSCIENCESLIBRARYNEWS.WORDPRESS.COM/OPEN-ACCESS-OA

http://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/PavlinkaKovatcheva

SCOOP.IT: SHARE IDEAS THAT MATTER

http://www.scoop.it/t/uj-sciences-librarian-open-access

PAPER.LI: BE A PUBLISHER

http://paper.li/ujlibscience/1347303251

OPEN ACCESS: INITIATIVES TO FOLLOW IN SA

Open Access week, 22 – 28 October 2012

http://www.openaccessweek.org/ Open Access Africa (hosted by BioMed

Central) - Cape Town, 4-5 November 2012

http://www.biomedcentral.com/developingcountries/events/openaccessafrica Berlin 10 Open Access Conference,

Stellenbosch, 6-8 November 2012 http://www.berlin10.org/

PAVLINKA KOVATCHEVAE-MAIL: PKOVATCHEVA@UJ.AC.ZA

UJ SCIENCES PORTAL: HTTP://UJSCIENCELIBRARIAN.PBWORKS.COM/FRONTPAGE

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