making research open access
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Making your research
Recipe
• Why Open Access?• Benefits• Funder requirements• Types of Open Access• Open Access journals• LSHTM Research Online• Help/Assistance• Licenses
Background• Technology allowed
information to be shared/liberated much more easily
• Open Data, Open Science, Open Educational Resources, Open Source Software
• Serials Crisis – 250% price increase over inflation in last 30 years
• Average annual profit for ‘big publishers’ 35%
Benefits• Increased/instant
communication• Interdisciplinary research• Raises research profile• New areas of research through
new technologies• Increased visiblity of developing
world’s research• Audiences outside academia• Improves the speed, efficiency
and efficacy of research• Research results are also
teaching materials
Types of Open Access• Gold and Green• Gold – immediate access to
final version/publisher pdf• PMC if required• Allows wide reuse• Sometimes a fee• Green – author accepted
manuscript, immediate or embargo period
• More restrictive reuse• No fee
Open Access Journals/Publishers• New ones everyday• PLoS, BioMed Central, e-Life,
Hindawi, Peer-J• Directory of Open Access
Journals• http://www.doaj.org/ • Hybrid Open Access journals• OA monographs – Ubiquity
Press• http://www.doabooks.org/ • Predatory publishers
http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/12/06/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers-2013/
Article Processing ChargesSex Transm Infect
BMJ £1950 Hybrid Green
Lancet Elsevier £400 per page Hybrid Green
Aids LWW $3000 Hybrid No
PLoS One PLoS $1350 Gold No
BMJ BMJ £3000 Hybrid Green
Bull World Health Organ
WHO £0.00 Gold No
Lancet Global Health
Elsevier $4750 Gold No
Trop Med Int Health
Wiley $3000 Hybrid No
Vaccine Elsevier $3000 Hybrid Green
BMC Public Health
BMC £1290 Gold No
Funder requirements• RCUK, Wellcome Trust,
European Commission• Other funders e.g Gates
Foundation• Open Access immediately
or within 6-12months• Available in EuropePMC,
ESRC Catalogue, LSHTM Research Online
• Block grant
RCUK • Any articles/conference
proceedings 1st April 2013• Funder credited• Fee paid? Publisherpdf,CC-BY
license, Immediate OA• Author manuscript – no fee, CC-
BY-NC-ND license, embargo 6-24 months
• Collaborations then PI must decide responsible for OA
• Part or wholly funded• After lifetime of grant• RCUK students also eligible
School support for RCUK policyhttp://www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/using/rcuk_open_access_policy.html
• Green (if possible)• PLoS, BMC and Elsevier• Additional journals
www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/using/lshtm_eligible_journal_list_sept_2013.pdf
• Decision tree www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/using/decision_tree_open_access_sept_2013.pdf
• Contact: researchonline@lshtm.ac.uk
Wellcome Trust• CC-BY and deposited
immediately into EuropePMC/PMC
• Does not cover page/colour charges
• Books and book chapters October 1st 2013 (new grants) October 1st 2014 (current grants) any CC license
• NOT textbooks, edited collections
Select Journal
Green OA permitted?check http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/fact/
or contact researchonline@lshtm.ac.uk
Send author version to LSHTM-RO who will deposit in
relevant repositories
Send invoice to researchonline@lshtm.ac.uk
Does Publisher offer Gold OA/CC-BY license?On recommended
journal list?
contact researchonline@lshtm.ac.uk
Publish anyway and send details through to
researchonline@lshtm.ac.uk
Decision Tree
YES NO
YES NONO
YES
Key & Notes: • Gold = An article processing charge is required, publisher final version pdf
is made open access immediately• Green = No article processing charge required, author accepted version
(peer reviewed, non formatted) is made open access either immediately or after an embargo
• APC = Article Processing Charge• LSHTM-RO = LSHTM Research Online• CC-BY = Creative Commons license that allows all reuse including
commercial as long as there is attribution• Sherpa Fact website allows researchers to check if a journal is compliant
with individual RCUK funders open access policies• PLoS, BioMed Central are ‘Gold’ and CC-BY• MRC/BBSRC articles must be deposited into EuropePMC. If ‘Gold’
publisher will do this, if ‘Green’ LSHTM-RO staff will arrange deposit• ESRC articles must be deposited into ESRC Research Catalogue, contact
LSHTM-RO staff for information
Paying Open Access• Article Processing Charge• Billing address:• London School of Hygiene
and Tropical MedicineKeppel StLondon WC1E 7HT
• VAT number: GB 233 7560 66
• Covers page/colour charges
LSHTM Research Onlinehttp://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/
• Schools online OA database/repository
• Gold & Green• NERC, BBSRC, ESPRC,
European Commission, Cancer Research, NIHR
• Reports, posters, presentations, theses, video, audio
• LSHTM login will allow you to create records directly
ResearchGate• ‘Facebook for academics’• Popular• Many questions about it• Unless article has been made
OA it cannot be deposited here
• Author accepted manuscript – your call
• Low likelihood of publisher asking you to remove paper
• Must have RG account to read papers
Creative Commons
• Licenses which clearly state what you can do
• CC-BY most ‘unrestricted’
• Commercial reuse, wikipedia, blogs, translations
• CC-BY-NC-ND can read, download, put on educational sites
Resources• Open Access Explained video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5rVH1KGBCY• Library Blog http://lshtmlib.blogspot.co.uk/• LSHTM Research Online http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/• RCUK policy
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/using/rcuk_open_access_policy.html• Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/• Directory of Open Access Repositories http://www.opendoar.org/• Wellcome Trust Open Access policy
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Policy/Spotlight-issues/Open-access/Guides/WTD018855.htm
• List of predatory publishers http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/12/06/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers-2013/
• Overview of OA http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm
Summary
• Go Open• Choose green if possible• RCUK/Wellcome provide
funds• CC-BY license• Invoices to
researchonline@lshtm.ac.uk
• LSHTM Research Online• Questions or help to
researchonline@lshtm.ac.uk
Thanks & Questions
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