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Learning Objectives:

LO6a: Understand the allowances for self-archiving in publishing contracts, including issues to do with copyright, licensing, article versions, availability, embargoes, and the types of outlets for self-archiving (knowledge).

LO6b: Gain an understanding of the history of scholarly publishing, and be able to articulate benefits of Open Access in terms of impact on society and our knowledge economy (knowledge).

LO6c: Develop a personal infrastructure for self-archiving (task).

Key components:

  • Sharing research findings with international academic and non-academic communities without paywall and other usage restrictions.

  • Personal academic impact and advantages of Open Access (e.g., increased citation counts, visibility, readership).

  • Global, national, funder, and institutional policies and mandates.

  • Pre-prints, post-prints, and versions of record (VOR).

  • Different types of Open Access: gold, green, diamond/platinum, black.

  • The cost and economics of Open Access.

  • Open Access platforms.

  • Institutional and subject repositories .

  • Scholarly Collaboration Networks (e.g., ResearchGate, Academia.edu).

  • Open Access monographs and books.

  • Pre-registration.

Who to involve:

  • Individuals: Lauren Collister, Martin Paul Eve, Chris Chambers, Jessica Polka, Mark Patterson, Pablo Dorta-González, Ahmed Ogunlaja, Ricardo Hartley, Dasapta Erwin Irawan, Bjoern Brembs, Erin McKiernan, Anna Sharman, Naomi Penfold, Juan Pablo Alperin, Barbara Rivera, Roshan Karn.

  • Organisations: DOAJ,, Open Library of Humanities, ASAPbio, Open Access advocacy groups, including local initiatives on the country and institute level.

  • Other: SHERPA/RoMEO, Open Access Directory.

Key resources:

Tools

Research Articles and Reports

Key posts

Other

Tasks:

  • Get an overview of the relevant journals and publishing outlets in your research discipline.

    • Which ones have Open Access options.

    • How much do they each charge for Open Access.

    • What funds are available to you to cover these (where relevant).

  • Preferably, find out which diamond/platinum OA journals (i.e., those which do not charge APCs) with high-quality editorial policies exist in your field.

  • Draft a summary statement/report outlining the pros and cons of these outlets (e.g., editorial quality, OA policies).

    • What do your colleagues think about the credibility, advantages, and disadvantages of these outlets?

    • How does this compare to your views?

  • Simple exercises on average "cost of a paper"; for example the average institute budget/publication output, or your last research grant/papers out compared to the average gold Open Access cost in that discipline.

  • Find out if you are eligible for funds to pay for article-processing charges APCs.

    • Is the policy from your funder or institute?

    • What are the conditions?

  • Find a way to make all of your research papers legally freely available.

    • Use SHERPA/RoMEO to detangle the legalese in publishing contracts.

    • Check with Dissem.in which of your papers can be made Open Access via self-archiving.

    • Self-archive one paper (can be previously published) or share a pre-print to an archive.

    • Make sure to identify and include all relevant metadata (e.g. publisher requires citation with a URL to the final published version).

  • Check ImpactStory to see the impact of your research outputs.

    • What can be improved?

    • What happens to your Open Access score when you self-archive your papers?

  • Request an article using the OA Button.

  • Look for a local OA journal at your university or in your region.

    • Is there a preprint server for your research discipline?