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Open Access

Looking for ways to increase the

reach and impact of your research?

• Rafia Mirza

• Digital Humanities Librarian

• Faedra Wills

• Digital Project Librarian

learn about degrees of openness.

have a working definition of green open access and

gold open access and the distinction between the two.

Will understand the different models for gold OA

(hybrid, APC, etc.).

Will learn how repositories (both institutional and

disciplinary) facilitate green OA.

• depositing your work in the Research Commons (our

Institutional Repository)

• sharing all forms of scholarship (grey literature,

reports, proceedings, data sets etc.)

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

PARTICIPANTS WILL:

“Copyright is a form of protection grounded in the

U.S. Constitution and granted by law for original

works of authorship fixed in a tangible medium of

expression. Copyright covers both published and

unpublished works. ”

via copyright.gov

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COPYRIGHT

All Rights are Reserved

This means you must ask for permission for any use not covered by

Fair Use

Without the copyright holder's permission, the work cannot be

Used

Adapted

Copied

Published

Modified

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PUBLIC DOMAIN

These works are unavailable to private ownership, or are publicly available. This occurs when intellectual property rights

have expired

are forfeited

or are inapplicable

Examples:

Expired, created before 1923:Notes on Nursing by Florence Nightingale (published

1860)

Inapplicable: Works by the United States Government are considered public domain

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https://flic.kr/p/mEU9QZ

PUBLIC DOMAIN

You do not need to request permission or pay a license fee to

use these works; and, for the most part, you can use these

works in any way you wish because they are not covered by

copyright law.

Derivative works – No restriction in the public domain

Translation

Dramatization

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FAIR USE

According to U.S. Copyright, fair use is permitted use by

exception. These are generally for comment or criticism,

reporting, teaching and scholarship, or research.

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FAIR USE

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The four factors that determine whether reproduction

is fair use are purpose, nature, amount, and market.

Purpose: Educational and non-profit

Nature: Published, factual, nonfiction material

Amount: Small portion of a work

Market: Little or no effect on sales

Open access literature

is digital, online, free

of charge, and free

of most copyright

and licensing

restrictions.

- Peter Suber

OPEN ACCESS

Serials crisis → Access crisis

Scholars write for impact rather

than money

Conventional publishers acquire

their key assets from academics

without charge

Giving scholarly work to

publishers, who then sell it, harms

scholars’ interests

OA is in the interests of the

author, not just the reader

CLAIMS FOR OPEN ACCESS

Public domain image

courtesy

johnny_automatic via

openclipart

Not an attempt to bypass peer review

Not an attempt to reform or abolish copyright

Not an attempt to deprive royalty -earning authors of income

Not an attempt to reduce authors’ rights over their work

Not an attempt to reduce academic freedom

Not an attempt to relax rules against plagiarism

Not an attempt to punish or undermine conventional publishers

Does not require boycotting literature/publishers

Not primarily about bringing access to lay readers

Not universal access

- S u b e r, P. W h a t O p e n Ac c e s s i s n o t

WHAT OA IS NOT

Public domain image via

Wikimedia Commons

OA FOR PRACTITIONERS

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SPARC

Gratis OA removes price but not permission barriers: content

is free of charge but requires permission to exceed fair use

Libre OA removes price and at least some permission barriers:

by removing some copyright/licensing restrictions, users can

exceed fair use in certain ways

REUSE RIGHTS:

LIBRE & GRATIS

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Opensource.com

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CREATIVE COMMONS

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HOW OPEN IS IT?

Image courtesy SPARC

The Green way is for researchers to

deposit their published journal

articles in an open access

repository.Gold bar image viaWikimedia Commons

Slide adapted from Stevan Harnad at

http://openaccess.eprints.org/

MAKING RESEARCH OPEN ACCESS:

GOLD VS. GREEN

The Gold way is for publishers to

convert their journals

into Open Access journals.

Has taken time for impact factors and reputation to build

Business models stil l emerging: “Gold OA” does not always

mean that Article Processing Charges (APCs) are present.

Author-pays model has better traction in the STM community

Emerging challenges with ‘predatory’ practices

Rising of an OA publishing trade organization for legitimate

OA publishers (OASPA) and Directory of Open Access Journals

(DOAJ) that lists journals with acceptable publishing

practices.

OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING: GOLD

OPEN ACCESS ARCHIVING: GREEN

Public

Library of

Science:

Article-

Level

Metrics

telling a different side of

the story

(http://altmetrics.org)

ACADEMIC ONLINE PROFILE

Creating Your

Web Presence:

A Primer for

Academics

OA FOR PRACTITIONERS & IMPACT

“Science has made an impact in a lot of

different ways, not just on other scholars,

but on the public, or on practitioners, or

on teaching environments. Altmetrics

help us measure those,”[Heather]

Piwowar… founder of ImpactStory

- By Christina Szalinski

• Digital collections capturing and preserving the

intellectual output/wealth of a university community

in a single location.

• The primary goals of institutional repositories are to

increase access to research and to provide long-term

preservation and storage for the University’s scholarly

output.

• They are intended to complement, rather than

replace, other forms of publication.

WHAT IS AN INSTITUTIONAL

REPOSITORY?

• There are two main categories of

repositories:

• discipline-specific

• institutional

WHAT IS AN INSTITUTIONAL

REPOSITORY?

WHAT IS A DISCIPLINARY REPOSITORY?

• Established in 2007

• On the DSpace operating platform

• First items into the

ResearchCommons were ETDs

• Currently have 22,690 items in the

ResearchCommons

RESEARCHCOMMONS

DSPACE.UTA.EDU

• Faculty

• GRAs

• Staff

• Student Organizations

WHO CAN ADD MATERIAL TO THE

RESEARCHCOMMONS ?

*Articles *Lectures

*Images *Ebooks

*Newsletters *Datasets

*Audiovisual materials

*Technical and conference papers

*Theses and dissertations

WHAT CAN BE ADDED TO THE

RESEARCHCOMMONS

1. Alternative publishing method with no economic barriers to access

2. Immediate access to research

3. A durable URL is provided ensuring their research is permanently

available to a global audience

4. Increase the likelihood of having their research cited

5. Fulfills requirements of federally funded grants such as those from

the NIH and NSF to publish their research in an open access

repository

6. Recruitment and public relations tool

WHY SHOULD FACULTY ADD THEIR

SCHOLARLY WORKS INTO THE

RESEARCHCOMMONS?

https://dspace.uta.edu/handle/10106/4821

http://hdl.handle.net/10106/11691

1. Faculty can upload and curate their own

collections or designate a GRA to do so

2. Faculty can upload their own materials with

Library staff providing the metadata for their

works

3. Library staff can pull the faculty members CV

from Mentis and do all the work on their

behalf

HOW CAN FACULTY GET STARTED?

wills@uta.edu

or

LIBRARY-RC@LISTSERV.UTA.EDU

TO GET STARTED

Open Access Journals (OJS) - Provides online hosting for

academic journals for UTA faculty, staff and students. The

OJS system has a highly configurable system for editorial

workflows with features including:

• Online author submission

• Blind, double-blind, or open peer-review processes

• Online management of copyediting, layout, and proofreading

• Delegation of editorial responsibilities according to journal

sections

• Management of publication schedule and ongoing journal

archiving

• Customizable presentation features

ADDITIONAL OPEN ACCESS

PUBLISHING TOOLS

Open Conference System (OCS) - free Web publishing

tool that will create a complete Web presence for your

scholarly conference. OCS will allow you to:

• create a conference Web site

• compose and send a call for papers

• electronically accept paper and abstract submissions

• allow paper submitters to edit their work

• post conference proceedings and papers in a

searchable format

• register participants

ADDITIONAL OPEN ACCESS

PUBLISHING TOOLS

Portions of this work were originally created by Sarah L.

Shreeves and revised:

by Marisa L. Ramírez and Joy Kirchner on June 3, 2013.

by Clarke Iakovakis & Rafia Mirza in June 2014.

by Faedra Wills & Rafia Mirza in Nov. 2014.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution -

NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. To view a

copy of the license see:

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