Category: Open Access
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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A NEW Open Access Journal specifically for Engineers!
SAGE Open Engineering is a new Open Access peer-reviewed journal designed for the publication of high quality research in all areas of engineering. SAGE is a large international academic publisher of journals, books and electronic media in all subject areas. Access UQ Library's SAGE subscription journals.
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In the News: An Open Data Manifesto
The Denton Declaration: an Open Data Manifesto, is the latest announcement on the growing debate on open data.
The declaration includes:
- Open access to research data is critical for advancing science, scholarship, and society.
- Research data, when repurposed, has an accretive value.
- Publicly funded research should be publicly available for public good.
- Transparency in research is essential to sustain the public trust.
- The validation of research data by the peer community is an essential function of the responsible conduct of research.
- Managing research data is the responsibility of a broad community of stakeholders including researchers, funders, institutions, libraries, archivists, and the public.
To read further, go to Open Access@UNT
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UQ eSpace and the Open Access Advantage
UQ eSpace is the single authoritative source for the research outputs of the staff and students of the University of Queensland. UQ eSpace serves to raise the visibility and accessibility of these publications to the wider world and to provide data for reporting requirements such as Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) and Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) and for the internal UQ systems such as the Q-Index and UQreSearchers. It also operates as an institutional repository for open access publications and other digitised materials created by the University such as print materials, photographs, audio materials, videos, manuscripts and other original work. eSpace also houses UQ Research Higher Degree Theses. See the FAQ on the eSpace site for more information.
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Breathing new eLife: collection release
eLife, the new open access journal initiative of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust, have made their first few articles available. The site will be officially launched in December 2012. The full content will also be made available via PubMed Central (PMC) and its mirror sites, such as UKPMC. The open access journal will cover advances in life sciences and biomedicine. The eLife annoucement is available from: http://www.elifesciences.org/12-1015/
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How to attract a larger readership
Athabasca University Press (AUPress) can demonstrate a significantly larger readership for its books as evidenced by the number of downloads of the open electronic versions. Read about a recent study that compares an open access university press with traditional presses. The study is available from:
McGreal, R., Chen, N. S., & McNamara, T. (2011). A comparison of an open access university press with traditional university presses: Two years later. Information Services & Use, 31, 211-214.DOI 10.3233/ISU-2012-0650
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Open Engineering
SAGE Open Engineering is a new open access journal covering wide ranging topics on engineering. The new journal's aim is to be inclusive and according to the journal's website "lend itself to papers of both a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary nature but all engineering research will be considered provided authors can demonstrate that their work contributes to the academic narrative in some way."
Those willing to take the risk and submit to this new journal, can do so at an introductory rate of US$495. There is no indication how long this discounted rate will apply.
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BASE open access search engine
The BASE
search engine is designed to find academic open access resources. BASE is
operated by the Bielefeld University
Library. BASE provides an excellent 'Advanced Search' facility with
options to limit by country, document type and publication year. Searches can
be refined by content provider, subject and sorted by relevance. Records can
also be checked on Google Scholar
or directly exported to your referencing software.
BASE, OAIster and OpenDOAR are other examples of directories harvesting repositories using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) protocol. The Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) lists open access repositories around the world; it's interesting to search by country and by deposit activity.
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