Scholarly Communication Workshop

Managing Your Rights as an Author

August 27, 2014

Taylor & Francis 2014 Survey of Scholarly

Authors

authors believe that open access offers wider circulation, higher visibility, and larger readership than publication in subscription journals

71% were comfortable with non-commercial use of their work

the most preferred license by respondents was again the CC BY-NC-ND

Taylor & Francis Survey, cont; Open Access

Publishing Services Rigorous peer review

Rapid publication of my paper

Rapid peer review

Promotion of my paper post-publication

Automated deposit of my paper (Author Accepted Version) into a repository of my choice

Provision of usage and citation figures at the article level

Detailed guidance on how I can increase the visibility of my paper

Pre-peer review services such as language polishing, matching my paper to a journal, and / or formatting my paper to journal style

Provision of alt-metrics (such as Altmetric or ImpactStory)

Oberlin Group Faculty Survey

The majority of respondents’ recent publishing activity relates to journal articles, followed by book chapters, then books

Faculty are currently most dissatisfied with pricing of their work, speed of publishing and remuneration for their work

Key reasons for book publishing are developing research, communication with other scholars, and for tenure/promotion

Theological Librarianship Example – Open

Access Impact

Open Access and Copyright Resources

OpenDOAR - http://www.opendoar.org/

SHERPA/RoMEO - http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

Creative Commons - http://creativecommons.org/

SPARC - http://www.sparc.arl.org/

Further Reading

Davis, Phil. “Open Access Publication Gains

Acceptance With Authors, Licenses Still

Problematic.” The Scholarly Kitchen, July 2, 2014.

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/07/02/open-

access-publication-gains-acceptance-with-authors-

licenses-still-problematic/.

Straumsheim, Carl. “Liberal Arts College Libraries

Mull Establishing Open Access Book Publisher.”

Inside Higher Ed, April 11, 2014, sec. News.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/04/11/lib

eral-arts-college-libraries-mull-establishing-open-

access-book-publisher.

Further Reading, continued

Frass, Will, Jo Cross, and Victoria Gardner. Taylor &

Francis Open Access Survey. Taylor &

Francis/Routledge, June 2014.

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/explore/open-access-

survey-june2014.pdf.

TBI Communications. Shaping the Future of

Monograph Publishing in the Liberal Arts : Results of

a Survey to Oberlin Group Faculty, January 28,

2014.

http://leverinitiative.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/surv

ey_results_oberlin_faculty_jan14.pdf.