Your Work Your Rights

Cindy de Jonge, Elisabeth Svensson, Sabine Lengger

Open access and copyright

Why is ‘open access’ an issue?

Visibility

Fairness

Finances

Image: Giulia Forsythe http://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/6799831691

Why is ‘open access’ an issue?

Figure: http://www.researchinformation.info/risummer02sparc.html

Open access – will it ever work?

2002 2012

“Libraries and academics have been trying for over a decade to develop new ways of disseminating academic knowledge and research, but the barriers to entry enjoyed by the incumbent journals are just too high (loyal readership, brand recognition, ‘boards’ of academics who peer review research), as are the value proposition (they bring order to an anarchic process — the development of knowledge).”

Overview on the media industry by Morgan Stanley. http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/Journals/morganstanley.pdf

Boycott of Elsevier and the Research Works Act – more than 12000 researchers signed and refused to work for Elsevier

http://thecostofknowledge.com Figure: Laasko and Björk BMC Medicine 2012, 10:124 doi:10.1186/1741-7015-10-124  

Types of OAOpen-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of

charge

OA journals (gold OA)

OA archives or repositories (green OA)

Gold open access

OA journals perform peer review. Found in “Directory of open access journals” (

http://www.doaj.org/b ) You want to publish? You pay the production

costs upfront (800 - 4000 €) This money comes from:

Author (if described in project funding) From funding agent (KNAW and NWO) From university funding Fee waivers from the journals

Be aware of predatory publishers!

NWO Stimuleringsfonds

www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOP_82LC99

Green open access

OA repositories – self archiving Do not perform peer review Preprints (i.e. before review) and postprints (final

draft after review) ! Some journals do refuse articles that have circulated as

pre-prints (referred to as Ingelfinger Rule) Found on http://www.opendoar.org/ and

http://roar.eprints.org/ , also http://www.openoasis.org/

E.g. Pubmed central arXiv.org Treebase University repositories

Some useful links Data repositories

Figshare http://figshare.com/  – for anything (posters, negative results, data flopping around on your hdd etc etc). Each public upload gets a DOI (i.e. citable)

Dryad http://datadryad.org/  - for basic and applied biosciences  Github https://github.com/about – for coding

 Deposits (pre-print)  arXiv.org – For Physics, Computer science, Mathematics, Quantitative

Biology etc (http://arxiv.org/)  University of Utrecht -

http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/search/search.php?m=simple&language=en&p=1

Open lab notebook –  http://schamberlain.github.com/scott/blog.html  http

://www.carlboettiger.info/2012/09/28/Welcome-to-my-lab-notebook.html

Open access in the Netherlands

NWO / KNAW KNAW requires funded research to be openly available NWO encourages open access publishing

http://depot.knaw.nl/NARCIS (http://www.narcis.nl/ )Over 231.000 open access publications, over 15.000 datasets, information about researchers, research projects and research institutions in the Netherlands.

HBO Kennisbank (http://www.hbo-kennisbank.nl/ )10.000 theses, over 3.700 publications, 610 study aids.

http://www.openaccess.nl/openaccessinthenetherlands#UKBspringer

So? Open access summary.

Purpose: “... the purpose of OA is not to punish or undermine expensive journals, but to provide an accessible alternative and take full advantage of new technology —the internet— for widening distribution and reducing costs. Moreover, for researchers themselves, the overriding motivation is not to solve the journal pricing crisis but to deliver wider and easier access for readers and larger audience and impact for authors.” Peter Suberhttp://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

Your work – your copyright

You don’t have to sign over full copyrights to a journal. http://www.surf.nl/en/themas/openonderzoek/auteursrechten/Pages/default.aspx

You can retain the right to provide green OA Read the publishers’ rules

Postprint archiving Accommodation of mandatory green OA

Copyright licenses: http://creativecommons.org/ Already published and signed away your

copyright? Check: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

For discussion

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm http://www.nature.com/spoton/2012/10/open-

access-as-good-as-it-looks/?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureBlogs&buffer_share=6fe4b&utm_source=buffer

http://www.nature.com/news/predatory-publishers-are-corrupting-open-access-1.11385

http://www.arl.org/sparc/openaccess/why-oa.shtml

Discussion questions Have you ever 'hit a paywall'?

What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of open access?

Are you being encouraged to publish with open access by your supervisors / your institution? What do you think your institution should do to

promote it?

Have you published open access? What do you think you/we should do to promote

oa?

Discussion results Many students do not know about the issue of publishing and copyright.

Some students have been actively encouraged to publish open access, however, in general it seems to be a non-topic. If the issue is brought forward by the students themselves, the response by the PIs is usually very positive. Especially, it is not clear that there are funds available from funding agents and university libraries for funding gold open access.

In order to inform everybody better, the following ideas were discussed: Organize a colloquium about open access and copyright by a librarian active in this

area, from e.g. Utrecht or Wageningen University libraries. Hopefully, this can generate a discussion.

Our institution is organizing workshops for PhD students. We want to propose a new workshop that focuses on open access publishing and copyright. One possibility would be to include this in the workshop on ‘How to write a paper‘.

However, it would be great to make a new workshop on this and also include social media and internet presence, as new ways to promote your research. This ‘visibility’ workshop could be given by one or two people (one on OA / one on outreach). It would be fantastic if scientists gave this workshop.

In other institutions, a lot of the help for publishing rights is given by librarians. It would be great if the librarians could receive special training and transfer their knowledge to us.

There are universities who have facilities to put all posters online. We would like to show our posters off more, too! Also, maybe a blog where all the students can write would be great! We could post preprints there.

Summary of suggestions

Colloquium on OA and copyright Workshops for students

Include in ‘How to write a paper’ Make a ‘Visibility’ workshop that contains OA and

social media Librarian More online possibilities for students

Posters Blogs