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Module 2: Health and Natural Sciences. Snapshot of Publication outputs by discipline. Some disciplinary traits. Snapshot of Research characteristics. Sciences and Engineering : Multi-authorship Cancer & Nursing Studies : Communication and engagement
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Snapshot of Publication outputs by discipline Some disciplinary traits Snapshot of Research characteristics Sciences and Engineering: Multi-authorship Cancer & Nursing Studies : Communication and engagement with practitioners and policy-makers
The most important types of scholarly publication include: The Research Publication Landscape: An Overview Research Information Network Report (2009), Communicating Knowledge: How and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their finding, http://www.rin.ac.uk/system/files/attachments/Communicating-knowledge-report.pdf
OA availability (by discipline) An example of analyses of 2008 figures Source: Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature: Situation 2009. Björk B-C, Welling P, Laakso M, Majlender P, Hedlund T, et al. PLoS ONE 5(6): e11273. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011273 (2010)
Resources for finding Open Access Research in Natural and Health Sciences Open Access Repositories Arxiv www.arxiv.org PMC http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc Open Access Journals DOAJ www.doaj.org BioMed Central www.biomedcentral.com PLoS www.plos.org Open Access Data See further.
Open Access Disciplinary Repositories: Data Sets Example I: INSDC www.insdc.org INSDC has been developed and maintained collaboratively for over 18 years between GenBank National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan of National Institute of Genetics
Open Access Disciplinary Repositories: Data Sets Example II: Pangaea • Pangaea www.pangaea.de The information system PANGAEA is operated as an Open Access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research. The system guarantees long-term availability of its content through a commitment of the operating institutions Areas: Water, Sediment, Ice & Atmosphere
What can you do: • Ask your publisher for Open Access options • Publish in an Open Access journal or with an Open Access Book publisher • Encourage your editorial board to support OA • Participate in an editorial board of an OA journal • Negotiate your right to self-archive with your publisher • Deposit your articles or data in a subject or institutional repository • Participate in Open Access projects when your library invites you to • Grant receipients: check you funder’s policies
Remember it takes only 10 minutes per paper to self-archive! Open up, get practical! Image from: Palepu –Giustini – BCLA Conference 2008