Category: Open Access
What is open access and why should we care?
The latest article on Open Access(OA) in the Conversation by Danny Kingsley summarises the differences between the NHMRC and ARC policies on OA. It also gives a great introduction to OA, what it is, why we should care about it, and how it is likely to be achieved in Australia. Read: What is open access and why should we care?
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F1000Research: Open-Access Journal & Much More
F1000Research (launched 2013) is an original open-access publishing program for life scientists it offers:
- Immediate publication
- Transparent peer review (post-publication)
- Full data deposition and sharing
Other service on this platform includes:
F1000Posters an open access repository of conference posters and oral presentations from across biology and medicine. F10000 claims that by depositing you poster it will:
- Widen your audience by linking your full paper to the poster
- Provide discussion and feedback
F1000Prime an online directory which includes:
- Daily updates
- Over 100,000 recommendations of the top publishing articles in biology and medicine directory
- Personnel customization for quick access to the content that interests you including; favourite sections, stored search, bookmarked articles and email alerts
Institutional membership is available for University of Queensland staff & students. Register at F100Prime.
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ARC Open Access Policy Announced
The ARC has announced a new Open Access Policy, which takes effect from the 1st January 2013.
According to this new policy the ARC requires that any publications arising from an ARC supported research project must be deposited into an open access institutional repository within a twelve (12) month period from the date of publication.
It differs from the NHMRC Open Access Policy, in that it will not be applied retrospectively to existing funded research.
The policy commences on 1 January 2013, but the first publications
are not potentially due to be made available in an institutional repository
until after 1 January 2014.
The policy will be incorporated into all new Funding Rules and Agreements
released after 1 January 2013. It will not be applied retrospectively to
pre-existing Funding Rules and Agreements.
The aim of ARC's Policy is to ensure that the findings of publicly funded research are made available to the wider public as soon as possible. Both the research community and the public gain from knowledge derived from ARC funded research, and both wish to derive maximum benefit from these outputs.
Commentaries on the policy…..
9 Jan 2013 - Free for all: ARC-funded research now open to the public
15 Jan 2013 - What is open access and why should we care?
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World Archaeology Special Issue on Open Data
The latest issue of World Archaeology is a special issue on "Open Data"
Articles includes:
- Open archaeology by Mark Lake
- A vision of Open Archaeology Anthony Beck & Cameron Neylon
- Openness and archaeology's information ecosystem Eric Kansa
- DIY and digital archaeology; what are you doing to participate? Colleen Morgan & Stuart Eve
- Lost in information? Ways of knowing and modes of representation in e-archaeology Jeremy Huggett
For further information go to World Archaeology Volume 44, Issue
4, 2012
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The New Open-Access Journal, eLife is launched
On the 13th December the latest open-access journal eLife was official launched. A press release yesterday stated eLife, the open-access journal for outstanding advances in life sciences and biomedicine reveals a fresh approach to presenting and using scientific content on its new website.
eLife aims to provide a journal portal that invites visitors to
Explore - Important new research and associated data
Read - Commentary by experts and colleagues
eLife is supported by Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and Wellcome Trust.
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eLife - a new open access journal
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eLife - http://elife.elifesciences.org/ - is a new open access, peer-reviewed, life sciences journal. It contains material in the following subjects:
If you want to get published… the journal is offering free publication, while it's being established. |
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Compliance with NIH public access policy - update
Commencing around April 2013 the NIH will begin to hold processing of non-competing continuation awards if publications arising from grant awards are not in compliance with the public access policy. Once publications are in compliance, awards will go forward. Funded organizations will be given at least five months to prepare for the new process, and can use this time to make sure that publications comply with the policy. For more details: http://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2012/11/16/improving-public-access-to-research-results/
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The Latest News in Open Access
In July the RSC Publishing launched Gold for Gold, enabling RSC Gold subscribers in the UK to publish RSC papers free-of-charge via Gold Open Access (OA). RSC have extended this initiative to the rest of the world stating that, from now on, all RSC Gold subscribing institutions will be rewarded with voucher codes to publish OA articles at no cost.
To find out exactly how the process will work, take a look at RSC FAQs.
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New Materials Science Open Access Journal
APL materials will be a premier, international, rapid-publication, open-access journal in advanced materials research. It will span the whole breadth of functional materials research. Submitted papers will be afforded a high-quality review process with fast turnaround, and will benefit from exceptional visibility and prestige once published. Articles of both an experimental and theoretical nature on materials with a range of functional properties (including but not limited to electronic, optical, electrical, magnetic, biological, ionic, multifunctional and emergent phenomena) are invited. Submissions open on 1 January 2013.
- Free, permanent, online access to your article
- Article level metrics; analytics to measure reader-interest in your article
- Fair, fast, and rigorous peer review
- Worldwide media coverage for your work
- Creative Commons licensing so you retain copyright
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Will Open-Access Publishing be Less Expensive than Subscription Publishing?
Richard Poynder deliberates the latest report on open-access Reed Elsiveir: Transition to Open Access - Are the cost Savings Sufficient to Protect Margins? Published by investment analyst Claudio Aspei, it examines the cost savings in an open access model with the Reed Elsivier publishers finance team. The report estimates that a full transition to open access could lead to a saving of 10-12% of the cost base of a subscription publisher.
Although it important to note that Claudion Aspesi states
"While this data lessens the estimated potential impact of a transition to OA on the profitability of Reed Elsevier, the message does not change much. Even taking into account a 12% cost reduction, the impact of an OA transition on the profitability of the journal business of Elsevier would be significant."
For further information go to Richards thought provoking discussion on the report.
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SCOAP3 - Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics
SCOAP3, the Sponsoring Consortium
for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics, has
developed an innovative model to achieve open access to peer-reviewed journals
in high-energy physics (HEP).
SCOAP3 will convert high energy physics articles in the leading journals to gold open access. The publishers of these articles and journals are fully acknowledged through peer review and editorial services and the provision of the final published versions. The objective is to convert content in these journals from their current subscription-based model to open access, while preserving all the values provided by quality publishers and publications. SCOAP3 is funded without additional cost to libraries, via the re-direction of their currently funded HEP subscriptions.
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Open Methods, Open Data, Open Access - Archives of Scientific Psychology
The American Psychological Association (APA) is now accepting manuscripts for Archives of Scientific Psychology, which is expecting to publish its first article next year. Gary VendenBos co-editor stated "While Archives isn't psychology's first open-access journal, it is the first to require authors to contribute their full data set to a central, restricted-access data repository." The journal aims to appeal to a dual audience of both scientist and laypeople, with plain-language summaries and traditional abstracts.
To find out more:
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Free Access to the 2012 Nobel Laureates most-cited articles
ScienceDirect
has provided free access to the 2012 Nobel Laureates
most-cited ground-breaking research published in Elsevier journals in
recognition of these extraordinary scholars and their contributions to science
in the fields of Medicine, Physics, Chemistry and Economics. All eight Nobel
scientists have connections with Elsevier, publishing journal articles and book
chapters. Find links to selected free articles here.
Check the Nobel Prize website for
further information on the 2012 Nobel Laureates.
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New report assesses open access in biomedical research across Europe
The European Science Foundation (ESF) released a report this week which aims
to accelerate the adoption of open access to research articles in the
biomedical sciences. The briefing emphasises the "moral imperative"
(ESF 2012) of open access to maximise the value of biomedical research. It
recommends a joint effort by individual agencies to promote this imperative and
calls for all stakeholders in biomedical research, including funding agencies,
publishers, research performing institutions, research libraries and learned
societies to support the extension of a European PubMed Central as a
Europe-wide repository in biomedicine.
The full briefing is available from the
European Science Foundation (ESF)
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In the News: A New Study on the Rise of Open Access Academic Publishing
The Guardian reported this week on a new study in the BMC Medicine on open access (OA) and academic publishing. The primary aim of the study was to "measure the volume of scientific articles published in full immediate OA journal from 2000 to 2011" (Laakso & Bjork 2012). Further to this, the study also measured the share of open access articles which included publications that were made open access by publishers. The study concluded that nearly 17% of scholarly journal articles are already now made openly available on the Web within a year by the publishers (Laakso & Bjork 2012).
For further information on Open Access go to:
- The Guardian - Open Access news on the current debate on open access.
- BMC Medicine - Anatomy of open access publishing: a study of longitudinal development and internal structure
- UQ Library Open Access Week Events
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