Open Access Scholarly Communication Prof Gail Mc Millan

Open Access Scholarly Communication Prof. Gail Mc. Millan Virginia Tech Libraries GSA: March 23, 2017

Virginia Tech Mission Statement. . . The discovery and dissemination of new knowledge are central to its mission. Through its focus on teaching and learning, research and discovery, and outreach and engagement, the university creates, conveys, and applies knowledge to expand personal growth and opportunity, advance social and community development, foster economic competitiveness, and improve the quality of life.

Many kinds of “Open” n n n n Open source software Open peer review Open data Open government Open educational resources (OER) Open pedagogy Open access

Open Access Defined Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.

Why you (and I) should care n Sharing matters at different scales: – Personal: citation advantage, visibility – Academic: reclaiming ownership, economics of publishing – National: taxpayer access to information – Global: development and transmission of new ideas n Sharing knowledge and demonstrating research impact at a global land-grant university depends on success at all levels

Scholarly Communication Cycle 1. Do research, write article 2. Give publisher free content, free peer review, free editorial services 3. Buy back content a. With many potential readers excluded b. With lost control over our own work c. At high prices and 8% annual inflation

Who is excluded? n n n Colleagues Scholars in the developing world Independent researchers Virginia taxpayers Students who graduate

What are the costs? n n Monopoly market Prices rise faster than CPI Large publishers among most profitable businesses Less money for monographs because journals costs are so high

Advantages of Open Access n n n Scholarly information is a public good Increase in “visibility, retrievability, audience, usage, and citations” Text and data mining Research integrity Scales with growth in research Unforeseen benefits

Misunderstandings about OA n n Not intended for patentable or royaltygenerating works Not a way to bypass peer review Not an assertion that publishing is costfree Doesn’t necessarily mean publishing in open access journals or paying APCs

Two Roads to Open Access n Self-archiving (Green OA) – Deposit pre-print or post-print in university or disciplinary repository (e. g. VTech. Works or ar. Xiv) n OA publishing (Gold OA) – Publishing in open access journals (e. g. PLOS One)

Self-archiving (Green OA) However n Voluntary efforts don’t scale n Not the version of record n May require journal permission – Read contract –SHERPA-Ro. MEO has publisher policies http: //www. sherpa. ac. uk/romeo/

Self-archiving (Green OA) If not explicitly permitted in your contract:

OA publishing (Gold OA) Benefits: n Access for all n Version of record n Greater visibility and more citations

Finding OA Journals and Publishers n Open access journal directories – Directory of Open Access Journals – SHERPA/Ro. MEO – Think. Click. Submit – Ulrichs. Web n Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, COPE n Publisher discounts available to VT authors

Evaluating a Publisher n n Assess website, To. C, articles, editorial board DOAJ, digital preservation Red flags: multiple journals launched at once, irregular publishing, lack of focus, few articles published, high fees OASPA members: http: //oaspa. org/membership/members/

What you can do to increase access n n n Archive your articles, data, presentations, syllabi, reports, etc. in VTech. Works Read contracts and use addenda to gain selfarchiving rights Publish in open access journals Start an open access journal Consider a departmental, college, or university-wide policy on OA article archiving Apply for publication funding and spread the word about the library’s OA fund

VT Library Services n n n Institutional memberships reduce publication charges (PLo. S, BMC, etc. ) VTech. Works: digital repository of articles, data, etc. Consulting on publishing agreements Assisting with digital projects (Port) Publish open access journals Subvention fund: $1500 per OA article

VT OA Subvention Fund Allocations n n Authors have no other source of funding (e. g. , no grants from NIH, NSF, Gates, etc. ) $1500. 00 per article x 2/yr. – Max $3000 per author per year – Prorated for multiple VT co-authors • $1500 distributed among the VT co-authors • 3 authors of one article subsidized at $500 each n http: //www. lib. vt. edu/oafund/

Potential VT OA Policy Faculty grant to Virginia Tech permission to make available their scholarly articles and to exercise the copyright in those articles. That is, each faculty member grants to VT a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to each scholarly article, in any medium, provided that the articles are not sold for a profit.

Open Access http: //guides. lib. vt. edu/oa/journals Gail Mc. Millan Virginia Tech Libraries http: //scholar. lib. vt. edu gailmac@vt. edu