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Module 2: Social Sciences

Module 2: Social Sciences. Disciplinairy traits. Networking, collaborating Young researchers : publications are a means for career advancement Older researchers: publishing are a means for communicating and contributing to developments in society Over the years more journals, less monographs

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Module 2: Social Sciences

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  1. Module 2: Social Sciences

  2. Disciplinairy traits • Networking, collaborating • Young researchers: publications are a means for career advancement • Older researchers: publishing are a means for communicating and contributing to developments in society • Over the years more journals, less monographs • Like to cite! • Lengthy publications • Use of grey literature • Institutional guidelines

  3. Social Sciences Citation Index Output What social scientists produce Source: Thomson Reuters Social Science Citation Index online version in Jonkers, K., (2010), International Social Science Council (ISSC) & UNESCO, (2010), World Social Science Report 2010 , p. 194 [Online] Available at: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001883/188333e.pdf Research Information Network Report, (2009), Communicating Knowledge: How and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their finding,[Online] Available at: http://www.rin.ac.uk/system/files/attachments/Communicating-knowledge-report.pdf

  4. Overall, perception that OA is beneficial for research • 70% of respondents of an HSS survey familiar with OA publishing • Accessibility and efficiency the most important values of OA • Tremendous awareness differences per country, younger scholars more familiar with Open Access. • Sources: SOAP Study and OAPEN survey Perceptions about OA in the Social Sciences

  5. OA and publishing values Digital Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Report on User Needs, Janneke Adema, Paul Rutten, OAPEN Project, http://project.oapen.org/images/D315%20User%20Needs%20Report.pdf (Accessed, 28/2/2011)

  6. Resources for finding Open Access research in the Social Sciences Repositories • The Directory of Open Access Repositories – OpenDOAR www.opendoar.org • Social Sciences Repository: http://www.ssoar.info/en.html Open Access Journals • DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals: www.doaj.org • JSTOR: http://about.jstor.org/ Open Access Books • OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks www.oapen.org • Open Monograph Press: www.openmonographpress.org Open Access Data • CESSDA Council of European Social Science Data Archives:http://www.cessda.org/ • World Bank Open Data: http://data.worldbank.org/ • IMF Archive Material : http://www.imf.org/external/np/arc/eng/archive.htm • International Council on Archives: http://www.ica.org/ • International Social Science Council ISSC: http://www.worldsocialscience.org/

  7. Some other examples of Open Access repositories and research platforms • EconStor: an Open Access repository for economics publications • Social Science Research Network (SSRN): devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences • ISI - Social Indicators Information Service: the largest infrastructure facility in Germany, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, offers a variety of services related to the social sciences • European Cultural Heritage Online (ECHO) an Open Access Infrastructure to bring Essential Cultural Heritage Online

  8. What can you do: • Deposit your articles or data in an IR or a subject repository • Negotiate your right to self-archive with your publisher • 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 • Convert out of print works to digital objects and deposit them in a 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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