embracing open access publishing alasdair rae university of sheffield @undertheraedar
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Embracing Open Access Publishing
Alasdair RaeUniversity of Sheffield
@undertheraedar
About me
• Editor of RSRS
• Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies and Planning
• Advocate of ‘openness’ in general
• Unhealthy interest in Open Access…
For the next 20 minutes or so
• “Open access publishing is a fad”
• “Open access publications are a load of rubbish, aren’t they?”
• “Who is OA open to?”
• Advantages and disadvantages of OA
Fad?
United States, Brazil, UK, India, Spain all have
over 500 OA journals.
Source: DOAJ
OA journals have been with us for decades.
Source: DOAJ
There are around 10,000 OA journals in
existence.
Source: DOAJ
http://doaj.org
Rubbish?
Let’s take a serious look at OA
• Three obvious, important points
1. Not all OA publications are the same
2. You need to understand how it works
3. OA needn’t mean lower quality
http://undertheraedar.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/the-wonderful-world-of-open-access.html
Two sides of the same coin
#rejection#openaccess
Open to whom?
Let’s think about ‘open’
• What’s it all about?
1. Access to publicly-funded research
2. Societal progress – not ivory towers
3. Fairness
Advantages and
Disadvantages
Advantages of OA
• People might actually read your work
• Your work might be published sooner than in a non-OA journal
• Access for researchers in developing nations
• Impact, engagement and publicity
Disadvantages of OA
• People might actually read your work
• Depending upon licence, can have a life of its own – CC-BY etc.
• Normally a cost associated with it
• Far fewer quality options to choose from – very important for early career
To sum up
• You should definitely embrace open access (as part of your publishing strategy)
• Open access is not a fad
• Open access quality varies greatly
• Open access can help change the world
@undertheraedar
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