Presentation at Open access seminars, December 6-9, 2015, An-Najah National University, Birzeit University and Palestine Polytechnic University

1. How to do research in
today’s digital environment
Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Programme Manager
Presentation at Open access seminars, December 6-9,
2015, An-Najah National University, Birzeit University and
Palestine Polytechnic University
Attribution 4.0 International

2. https://innoscholcomm.silk.co
101 Innovations in Scholarly Communication
How can libraries support changing research workflows?
Bianca Kramer & Jeroen Bosman
EIFL General Assembly, Riga, November 13, 2015
@MsPhelps
@jeroenbosman

3. The research workflow – a cyclic model
preparation
analysis
writingpublication
outreach
assessment discovery

4. preparation
analysis
writingpublication
outreach
assessment discovery
The research workflow – a cyclic model

5. 2005
2010
Analysis
Outreach

6. Scholarly Communication

7. Innovations
In scholarly communication

19. The open access citation advantage: Data from Alma Swan, 2010. Figure produced by
E.C. McKiernan (CC BY)

22. Make a list of open access publication
options in your particular
field. Chances are you will be
surprised by the range of possibilities
Erin McKiernan

23. Discuss access issues with your
collaborators up front, before the
research is done and the articles
written.
Erin McKiernan

30. Being open doesn't have to break the bank!
~70% of OA journals do not charge.
Many OA journals have low-cost fees.
Most OA journals have fee waivers.
Some institutions have OA publisher memberships.
Some institutions have OA publishing funds.
Some funders provide OA publishing fee support.
Self-archiving openly costs nothing.

37. Blog about your science, and in language
that is comprehensible to non-
scientists. Doing this can ultimately
increase the impact of your work and can
even lead sometimes to press coverage
and to better press coverage.
Erin McKiernan

39. Be active on social media. This is the
way academic reputations are built
today, so ignoring the opportunities
presented is unwise.
Erin McKiernan

40. If for some reason you do publish a
closed-access article, remember that you
can self-archive a copy of your article in a
disciplinary or institutional or shared
repository.
Erin McKiernan

42. ~78% of publishers allow authors to openly archive a version of their published
manuscript: Breakdown of archiving policies from over 2,100 publishers. Source: Data
from SHERPA/RoMEO. Accessed October 2015 and plotted by E.C. McKiernan (CC BY)

48. 1. Do not use journal-based
metrics, such as Journal Impact
Factors, as a surrogate measure of
the quality of individual research
articles, to assess an individual
scientist's contributions, or in
hiring, promotion, or funding
decisions.
The San Francisco Declaration on
Research Assessment (DORA)
http://am.ascb.org/dora/

50. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/staff/staff-news/0115/16012015-ucl-signs-declaration-on-
research-assessment
“…for the purposes of research assessment, consider the
value and impact of all research outputs (including
datasets and software) in addition to research
publications, and consider a broad range of impact
measures including qualitative indicators of research
impact, such as influence on policy and practice.
Researchers should: “…use a range of article metrics
and indicators on personal/supporting statements, as
evidence of the impact of individual published articles
and other research outputs”

58. 1. It’ll spoil my publication chances later
Well, it might, but in a recent survey only 7% of
institutions cited this as a frequent concern
amongst their students, and no concrete
examples were found of publication being
refused because the PhD thesis had been added
to an open access repository. If reassurance is
needed, then an embargo period can be applied,
with may be the record plus abstract still being
available to all.

60. Thank you!
Questions?
iryna.kuchma@eifl.net
www.eifl.net