1. 5 Things to Know
about Open Access
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2. Goals
1. Define Open Access
2. Explain the types of Open Access publishing available
3. Discuss how to evaluate reputable journals for open access
4. Discuss how scholars make their research openly available
5. Explore the benefits of Open Access publishing to increase
research impact
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3. 5 Myths About Open Access
❑“That’s not good research”
❑“It costs me too much money”
❑“I’ve never heard of any good Open Access publishers”
❑“The people who need my work already have access to it”
❑“Open Access will destroy academic societies”
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4. = FREE ACCESS
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5. Defining OA
“Open source, open access, open education,
open data, open science: all of these
movements share a commitment to the
removal of barriers to access Scholarly
Communication and restrictions for use.”
http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/issues/scholcomm/docs/ten_things_you_should_know.pdf
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6. TYPES of PUBLISHING
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7. Types of Publishing Options
❑Paid Access
❑Hybrid Open Access
❑Gold Open Access
❑Green Open Access
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8. Publishing Options: Paid Access (paywall)
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9. Publishing Options: Hybrid Open Access
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10. Publishing Options: Gold Open Access
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❑Varying degrees of Gold
❑Can be free to publish
❑Can also require APC
❑Pay to retain certain copyrights or remove embargo
❑Best scenario: free to publish, no embargo restrictions
Ex: Public Library of Science (APC), Indiana Magazine of History
(Embargo), College & Research Libraries (no APC, No Embargo)

11. Publishing Options: Green Open Access
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❑Self-Archiving
 Institutional Repository
 Subject-based Repository
❑Often required by funding agencies
❑Embargo friendly (0-24 months)
❑Use Sherpa-Romeo (www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/)

12. MYTH #1
“That’s not good research!”
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13. “That’s not good research!”
 Often confused with predatory journals… but!
 OA Journals are peer-reviewed
 world-class scholars on editorial boards
 How can you make sure?
 Check DOAJ.org
 Review their editorial board
 Ask colleagues
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14. MYTH #2
“It costs me too much money!”
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15. “It costs me too much money!”
 There’s not always a charge to publish OA
 Include OA charges in grant applications
 Some publishers offer discounts (e.g. BMC)
 Some institutions provide funding
 If publish Green, doesn’t cost anything
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16. MYTH #3
“I’ve never heard of any good OA
publishers!”
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17. “I’ve never heard of any good OA publishers!”
 Commercial Publishers
 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
 Elsevier
 Wiley
 Taylor & Francis
 Societies
 American Psychological Association
 Royal Society of Chemistry
 Society for Neuroscience
 University Presses
 Duke University Press
 Oxford University Press
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18. MYTH #4
“The people who need my work already
have access to it!”
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19. “The people who need my work already have
access to it!”
 Even Harvard says they can’t afford everything
 Reach unintended audiences
 Other scholars
 Public
 Practitioners
 Inequities in Internet Access nationally and worldwide
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20. MYTH #5
“OA will destroy academic societies!”
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21. “OA will destroy academic societies!”
 Varying views on OA from societies
 There are many kinds of OA!
 Subscription with Green OA
 Subscription with embargo
 Societies are contracting with publishers who contract
with commercial publishers
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22. WHY PUBLISH
OPEN ACCESS?
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24. News outlets
• Over 1,300 sites
• Manually curated list
• Text mining
• Global coverage
Social media
and blogs
• Twitter, Facebook,
Google+, Sina Weibo
• Public posts only
• Manually curated list
Reference
managers
• Mendeley, CiteULike
• Reader counts
• Don’t count towards the
Altmetric score
Other sources
• Wikipedia
• YouTube
• Reddit
• F1000
• Pinterest
• Q&A
Post-publication
peer review
• Publons
• PubPeer
Policy documents
• NICE Evidence
• Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change
• Many more…
What OA sources can be tracked?

25. How is online attention aggregated?
Search for links to
papers.
Follow a list of
sources.
Collate
attention.
Display data in
“Altmetric details pages”.
E.g. blogs, news, policy
documents, social media.
Automatically link
searching and text
mining.
Disambiguation of
mentioned items across
different versions.
Collecting attention data
Reporting attention data
Altmetric Details Page.
All research outputs with
mentions have an Altmetric
Details Page in our
database.

26. Want to learn more?
SPARC : sparc.arl.org
“HowOpenIsIt?” Open Access Spectrum:
plos.org/open-access/howopenisit/
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Talk with colleagues and your librarian!
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27. QUESTIONS?
FEEDBACK:
surveymonkey.com/r/MSUresearcher
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