Publishing Trends: Open Access

@ the University of Florida Presentation to IDS 3931: Discovering

Research and Communicating Science

October 21, 2010

Scholarly Communications

• Sharing research, knowledge, and

creative productivity

• Publishing

• Issues: author’s rights, economics of

scholarly resources, new models--open

access, institutional repositories, rights

and access, preservation of intellectual

assets

Objectives • To define open access

• To learn differences between OA and

conventional publishing models

• To understand :”public access”

• To be aware of international & national

statements and mandates

• To be able to explain local UF Initiatives

– Institutional Repository @ UF, UF Open Access

Publishing Fund, and policy

– Open Access Week 2009 & 2010

Open Access Defined

• OA literature is

–free of charge to readers

–Unrestricted • free of most copyright and licensing restrictions

• and requires the consent of, or attribution to,

the author or copyright-holder

–Digital

–Online

Why OA is so Important to

Researchers • Research is published faster and freely available

online

• Gives research timely visibility, wider readership,

higher citation rates, and greater overall impact.

• Barriers to access are having a significant negative

impact on research

• Timely, open, online access to the results of

federally-funded research in the US will significantly

increase the return on the public’s investment in

science

• IMPACT

Global and National

Initiatives

• 3 basic statements: Budapest (02), Bethesda (03), & Berlin (03)

• UNESCO: for the benefit of global knowledge flow, innovation and socio-economic development

• 2008 NIH mandate

• 2009 introduction of Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA)

Other funding agencies also: Wellcome Trust and Canadian Institutes of Health Research

OA in Peer Institutions

• Many research universities have Open Access policies, encouraging or mandating faculty to submit peer-reviewed articles to Institutional Repositories.

• Some top-tiered Universities have OA publishing funds

The Imperative for Open

Access • Concept of “public access”: taxpayers,

federal agencies, and universities pay

twice for funded research

• High costs of journals are now

unsustainable

• Barriers to access are having a

negative impact on research

Open Access: 2 Primary

ways to Participate

• Self-archiving in a repository –

green OA

• Publishing in an open access

journal or monograph – gold

OA

Steps Toward

Open Access @ UF

• Promotion of the UF institutional

repository

• Establishment an OA publishing fund

• Creation of a faculty-driven university-

wide OA policy

The Institutional Repository

at UF (IR@UF):

The gateway to UF’s research

and scholarly output

www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufir

•Journal articles

• Conference papers and proceedings

• Monographs and monograph series

• Technical reports

• Theses and dissertations

• White papers

• UF Journals and Other Publications

• Grant proposals

• University archives materials

The IR@UF at 1 Million!

Why Scholars Participate

in the IR@UF?

To share research through:

• A permanent archive with stable links

• An open access repository compliant

with digital library standards

Self-submittal Tool a

One-Minute Video

Demonstrating Self-Submittal

http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/digital/ir

• OA journals are different: •free of charge to readers,

•unrestricted and

•online

• different funding model

• quality control

•commercial publishers respond with

hybrid journals

Publishing in an OA Journal

The UF Open Access

Publishing Fund

The Open Access Publishing Fund

supports making UF research findings

immediately, freely and globally

available through Open Access

publishing

• Began July 1, 2010

• Lasts 18-24 months

• $120,000 provided by Provost

• Does not replace grant or other funding

for open access publishing

Pilot Project

Eligible Authors

• UF faculty, staff and student

authors and co-authors, including

post-doctoral researchers

Eligible Articles

• Peer-reviewed research articles in

Open Access and hybrid journals

Funding Levels

• Maximum of $3,000 per author per

academic year

• Up to $3,000 per article to cover fees

for publishing in open access journals

• Up to $1,500 per article to cover fees

for open access publishing in paid

access (hybrid) journals

Eligible Publications

• Open Access Journals and Paid

Access (Hybrid) Journals listed in

the Directory of Open Access Journals

and/or compliant with the Open Access

Scholarly Publishers Association’s

Code of Conduct

www.doaj.org

• The application form is on the OA website

with the policies and procedures at

www.uflib.ufl.edu/oa.

Application Process

• Submit the completed application

form and publisher invoice to the

Libraries for payment.

You are invited to:

•Participate in the IR@UF and the

Open Access Publishing Fund

•Attend the Open Access Week 2010

program: Wednesday, Oct. 20th, 1:00 -

– 4:30 p.m.

Managing Your Copyright

•Copyright is?

•Managing your copyright

•Negotiate!

Summary

•What is open access?

•What are Open Access Journals?

•What is the difference between open

access publishing and conventional

publishing?

•What are two ways to participate in

OA on campus?

Open Access Project

•Create a multimedia presentation on

OA from the student perspective (up

to 2 min) OR

•Write an 8 – 10 page paper on the

history of OA from 3 perspectives:

•Publishers

•Librarians,

•Researchers

•Deposit this in the IR@UF

Questions?

Dr. Isabel Silver

Academic and

Scholarly

Outreach

isilver@ufl.edu

273-2524