1 / 10

Topic: Open Access

Topic: Open Access. James E Till, PhD Dept. of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, and The Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network. till@uhnres.utoronto.ca. Open Access (OA) Defined. Free : no “toll” charged to user No embargoes : Prompt access

fawn
Download Presentation

Topic: Open Access

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Topic: Open Access James E Till, PhD Dept. of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, and The Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network. till@uhnres.utoronto.ca

  2. Open Access (OA) Defined • Free: no “toll” charged to user • No embargoes: Prompt access • Few technical or legal barriers: Need Internet access (and, if copied, article should be properly cited & no errors or changes introduced) • See Budapest (BOAI) definition, http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml

  3. OA Publication Defined(“Strong” definition of OA) • BOAI definition, plus: • Copy in at least one appropriate OA repository that provides interoperability and archiving • In a suitable standard format • See, for example: Berlin Declaration, http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html

  4. Ways to Achieve OA • OA Publication in journals. Some require article processing fees (APFs), some do not (“Gold OA”). Directory of OA journals: http://www.doaj.org/ (Some “hybrid” or “author -choice” journals charge APFs for OA to individual articles:http://www.arl.org/newsltr/227/openaccess.html ).

  5. Ways to Achieve OA • OA Archiving: e.g. Via self-archiving of refereed journal articles in a suitable repository (“Green OA”, preferred over self-archiving on the surface Web). For a summary of journal policies about self-archiving, see: http://romeo.eprints.org/

  6. Some Uses of Institutional Repositories (IRs) • Access to institutional research and scholarly output (and, curating/preserving it) • Step toward an interoperable distributed global repository • Other uses, e.g. online learning services, digital courseware, digital publishing services

  7. Arguments for OA • Impact Arg: OA = more citations = more knowledge growth • Serials Crisis Arg: OA affordable • Fairness Arg: Equitable access • Taxpayer Arg: Don't pay twice! • Public Goods Arg: Information is a nonrivalous resource

  8. The Main Obstacle to OA • "...the single largest obstacle to OA is author inertia or omission".Peter Suber, Nature debate, 10 June 2004, http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/24.html

  9. How to Overcome the Main Obstacle to OA? • Change the mindset of researchers and scholars (e.g. replace “Publish or perish” with “Be openly accessible or be obscure”).

  10. Information About the“OA Impact Advantage” • Bibliography of studies on the effect of OA and downloads on citation impact:http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html • Components of the OA Advantage: Are high-quality articles archived more?http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/4758.html

More Related