Recent Developments in Open Access Helen Dobson Caroline

Recent Developments in Open Access Helen Dobson & Caroline Martin Research Services Librarians

Definition “Open access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. ” Suber, Peter. Open Access. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2012.

Open Access and the World Wide Web

Why Open Access … serials crisis “The system is absurd, …. One year's subscription to The Journal of Comparative Neurology costs the same as 300 monographs. We simply cannot go on paying the increase in subscription prices. ” Robert Darnton, Director of Harvard Library, The Guardian newspaper. April, 2012.

Serials crisis “Harvard has one of the richest libraries in the world. If Harvard can't afford to purchase all the journals their researchers need, what hope do the rest of us have? ” David Prosser, Executive Director of RLUK, The Guardian newspaper. April, 2012.

“Open Access Timeline, ” © 2010 Project NECOBELAC, used under a Creative Commons Attribution. Non. Commercial-Share. Alike 3. 0 Unported License: http: //creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3. 0 RCUK OA policies introduced Wellcome Trust OA policy introduced Manchester e. Scholar launched 2012 - Finch Report published

What Finch did Funders Librarians Finch Working Group Research community Publishers

What’s new…? 1. Wellcome Trust introduced CC-BY licence requirement 2. RCUK introduced new Open Access Policy

RCUK institutional funding £ 824, 459

RCUK institutional compliance Year Compliance Requirement Number of Articles 2013 -14 45% 500 -600 2014 -15 53% 600 -700 ***Articles and conference proceedings***

Routes to Open Access “One Way, " © 2011 John Fraissinet, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No. Derivs 3. 0 licence: http: //creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3. 0/

Key Characteristics Gold: Green: • Publisher makes • Author allows article Open Access • Immediate Open Access • May require payment of APC article to be Open Access via a repository • May be subject to embargo period • Free for author

Individual compliance (RCUK) Gold Green Licence? CC-BY-NC Embargo? No Yes – varies per funder & per publisher Version? No Yes – varies per publisher

Licensing Open Access Research • http: //creativecommons. org/

Achieving Green Open Access • Institutional repository • Subject repository

Sa ge OU P IO P AP A CU M P ar y. A nn RS Lie C be rt BM J T IE vie r W i Ta Sp ley ylo ri r & nge Fr r an cis Na tu re se El Traditional publishers 5, 000 4, 500 4, 000 3, 500 3, 000 2, 500 2, 000 1, 500 1, 000 500 0

Innovations in publishing

Further information • h www. manchester. ac. uk/openaccess • Dedicated Support Service uml. openaccess@manchester. ac. uk • S www. sherpa. ac. uk/fact

What will the future look like? “Puzzle Pieces” © 2006, Trevor Pritchard, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share. Alike licence: http: //creativecommons. org/licenses/by-sa/2. 0/uk/

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