Belinda TiffenDirector Library Resourcesbelinda.tiffen@uts.edu.au@bella1609

Open Access Publishing: What You Need to Know

Research Week02.2015

UTS:Library

What is Open Access?

Open Access (OA) promotes free public access to research publications and data on the Internet without financial, legal, or technical barriers.

http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/open-access/learn

What is Open Access?

It offers authors control over the integrity of their work, and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

What is Open Access?

It offers authors control over the integrity of their work, and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

Gold Road to OA

• OA articles published in journals are known as the Gold Road to Open Access

• These articles are currently (often) funded commercially by Article Processing Charges (APCs).

• These APCs are paid by the author or their govt./funder/institution.

The Green Road to OA

• All other articles published with any of the full range of open or closed licenses and are self-archived by authors in institutional or subject-based repositories are Green OA.

• These repositories are LINKED (by metadata harvesting) and used to provide access for as many people as possible who search for this scholarship via the internet.

• This is known as the Green Road to open access.

Benefits of Open Access

For individual researchers and their institutions, making research openly available can increase:

• the visibility and impact of the author and their work (http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html)

• opportunities for collaboration• the likelihood of practitioners applying their findings• compliance with the policies of grant funding agencies.

Benefits of Open Access

For the wider community, access to current and high-quality knowledge:

• improves the pace, efficiency and efficacy of research• fulfills a basic human right to education and intellectual

freedom• provides fairness to taxpayers through access to publicly-

funded research.

What is UTS Doing?

• Open access scholarly press, UTS ePRESS.• Open access institutional repository, OPUS.• Open Access Policy.• Research Data Management Policy.• Advice and Education

UTS ePRESS Unlocking Research

• 12 journals – peer reviewed, ERA-listed, international editorial boards, wide-disciplinary coverage.

• Growing monograph publications.• Conference proceedings.

OPUS Online Publications of UTS Scholars

• Showcases UTS research to the world• Indexed in Google Scholar• Preserves UTS research outputs• Ranked 71st in the world, 2nd in Australia*• 1.135M visits 2013• 22,242 items, approx. 35% open access

*(Webometrics world ranking Jan 2014)

Open Access Policy

• All UTS research publications deposited to OPUS

• Accepted manuscript or published version

UTS joins a growing list of institutions and funders worldwide mandating open access

Open Access Policy (cont.)

OA Policy 2004

Total Works

Open Works

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Repository Comparison (S-ize)

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OA Policy 2014

Repository World Ranking

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Research Data Management Policy

• Encourages making research data accessible and reusable where possible

Advice and Education

• Advisory services via website.• Ongoing researcher training program.