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Insights into Open Access Research in Health and Natural Sciences

Explore the landscape of scholarly publications and resources for accessing Open Access research in health and natural sciences. Learn about disciplinary repositories for data sets and how to engage in Open Access initiatives effectively.

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Insights into Open Access Research in Health and Natural Sciences

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  1. Module 2: Health and Natural Sciences

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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)

  5. 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.

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Remember it takes only 10 minutes per paper to self-archive! Open up, get practical! Image from: Palepu –Giustini – BCLA Conference 2008

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