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Open Access Week 2014: What You Need to Know

OSCP Munch/Lunch & Learn #16, October 2014

John Barnett, Scholarly Communications

Librarian

CC BY 3.0Slide2

What’s New in OA 2014?

On the local, national, and international scenesSlide3

Internationally speaking

World Health Organization (WHO) commits to Open Access by joining Europe PubMed Central

(

Wellcome

Trust, 1 May 2014)

WHO announces Open Access Policy (1 July 2014)

Articles authored or co-authored by WHO staff will have to be published in

OA journals or hybrid OA journals under Creative Commons 3.0 intergovernmental organization (IGO) license

Subscription journals allowing deposit of accepted author manuscript in Europe PubMed Central w/i 12 months

Articles produced by recipients of WHO funding will have to be published in

OA journals or hybrid OA journals under standard CC license terms

Subscription journals allowing deposit of articles in Europe PMC w/i 12

mosSlide4

Internationally speaking: The UK

Ongoing

debates re:

Research Councils UK (RCUK)

OA policy

Favors gold open access but leaves final choice to

authors (“confusing”)

Gold OA is considered cheaper in the long run but may be expensive during transition away from established subscription

models

Independent review of implementation announced

Higher Education Funding Council for England (

HEFCE

) announcement

Only papers placed in IRs will be considered eligible for the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) (periodic assessment of the outputs of UK university depts.)

Proposes mandated deposit on acceptance, rather than deposit on publicationSlide5

Internationally speaking: Canada

Draft Tri-Agency OA policy

for publicly funded research

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

CIHR was the 1

st

North American public research funder to have an OA

mandate

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Efforts under way to extend this to all federally funded research

Option 1: Submit manuscripts to journals offering immediate OA, or within 12 months

Option 2: Archive final peer-reviewed full-text manuscripts in a digital archive where it will be freely accessible within 12 monthsSlide6

Internationally speaking: Latin America

Argentina: OA law passed Argentina’s Senate in November 2013

Brazil: National draft policy in place (2011-)

Mexico: National draft policy in place (2013-)

Peru: Law passed in 2013Slide7

At the national level: Energy

U.S. Dept. of Energy unveils plan to increase public access to research it finances

(CHE,

4 August 2014)

Prompted by

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memorandum

Energy 1

st

agency to release its public access plan

Web-based portal: Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science (PAGES)

Initial rollout: 6,500 papers and abstracts only for some

(Science Insider,

4 August 2014)Slide8

SPARC response

Good but . . . “Falls short in some key areas” (Heather Joseph, SPARC)

Reuse

rights not addressed clearly

Publishers retain copyright to their

versions

of the research

Metadata is in public

domain

No centralized system for searching

No searchable index of the full text of articles

Instead, distributed full-text access

Dark archive of manuscripts to be used if links become broken or full-text access is interrupted

No plans to provide ways for researchers to analyze the entirety of research

Harder to do computational analysis, text or data mining—”the kind of innovative uses the White House directive was designed to encourage”Slide9

Publisher response

“Generally supportive of the DOE plan”

(CHE,

4 August 2014

)

However, the Association of American Publishers doesn’t like the 12-month embargo the plan provides

“The ‘half-life’ of published research varies across disciplines, which is an argument against blanket embargo periods”

“Many publishers dislike PubMed Central—they say it infringes on journal copyright and diverts readers from their websites, cutting into advertising revenues”

(Science Insider,

4 August 2014)

White House order tried to address this concernSlide10

At the national level: Education

U.S. Dept. of Education releases “

Secretary’s Proposed Supplemental Priorities and Definitions for Discretionary Grant Programs

” (24 June 2014)

New definition for Open Educational Resource (OER)

Understanding that OER can be used to improve and enhance department wide priorities

Proposed Priority #11: Leveraging Technology to Support Instructional Practice and Professional DevelopmentSlide11

SPARC response

Applauded proposal; cited additional proposed priorities that OER could help address

Proposed Priority #3: Enabling the Creation of Personalized Learning Environments

Proposed Priority #4: Targeting and Differentiating Material Specifically for High-Need Students

Proposed Priority #5: Increasing Postsecondary Access, Affordability, and Completion

Proposed Priority #7: Promoting Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

EducationSlide12

At the National Level: Congress

HR 4186, Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology (FIRST) Act

Language amended to match that of HR 3157, Public Access to Public Science Act (May 2014)

Embargo period of 12 months, not 24

Allows for embargo to be modified by a maximum of 6 months if the stakeholders can prove “substantial and unique harm”

Requires agencies to submit a report to Congress w/i 90 days detailing their public access policy; implementation w/i 1 yearSlide13

At the state level: California

California Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research Legislation (AB 609) signed into law on 29 September 2014

Requires researchers receiving state-funded grant from the CA Dept. of Public Health

to

Submit an electronic copy of articles resulting from that grant and accepted for publication to a publicly accessible online database

Or, if needing to be submitted to another OA repository, researchers can supply the link to the state agency and the CA State Library

Within 12 months of publicationSlide14

At the state level: Illinois

Illinois Open Access to Articles Act (SB 1900)

Passed both chambers of the IL legislature

Awaiting governor’s signature

Requires that

Illinois state universities and colleges develop an “open access to research articles policy” within 1 year of the bill’s passage

Direct faculty to make freely available to the public an electronic version of the author’s final manuscript of original research (deposit on acceptance)

Author grants to public an irrevocable, worldwide copyright license to use these manuscriptsSlide15

At the state level: New York

New York Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research Legislation (A180-2013 and S4050-2013)

Introduced into NY State Assembly in 2013

Bill currently under consideration; “no further action expected until the start of the 2014 legislative session

So what’s the current status of this legislation?Slide16

Crickets . . .Slide17

OA and the OSCP

An update on Open Access activities by the

ULS Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing Slide18

At Pitt: Journal publishing

New journals

Anthropology & Aging

(website live:

anthro-age.pitt.edu

)

Hungarian Cultural Studies

(back issues loaded:

ahea.net

/

ahea.pitt.edu

)

New issues

45 issues published from October 2013 to October 2014

Some journal editors even won awards . . .Slide19

At Pitt: OA author fee fund

Activity for July

2012-June 2014

Articles approved and reimbursed to date: 121

Number of unique submitting authors: 113

Number of unique departments: 61

Number of unique journals: 75

Expenditures: $51,350 (FY 2013); $35,724 (FY 2014)

Includes

Hindawi

institutional membership and

BioMed

Central deposit accountSlide20

At Pitt: D-Scholarship

New staff

John Fudrow, Repository Manager

Spencer Goodwin, consultant on linked data, OAI harvesting

Nearly 15,000 records to date; 2,196 in the last year, including 699 ETDs

Books:

http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/21148

/

Data:

http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/20650

/

Improved metrics from

PlumX

:

http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/22403

/

In development

New version of EPrints software

Site redesignSlide21

At Pitt: Outreach and education

OA

LibGuide

completed -

pitt.libguides.com/

openaccess

Updated copyright/IP pages on the OSCP website –

www.library.pitt.edu/oscp/intellectual-property

Outreach

Approximately 30 information sessions (ULS, Pitt, regional, state, national, international)

New

OSCP services brochure

In development

LibGuides

on OER and Copyright/IP

Revamped

altmetrics

webpages

OA journals and quality webpagesSlide22

OA Week 2014 events—for ULS staff

October 14: Today’s Munch & Learn (our 16

th

)

October 22, 11 am to 12 noon:

How

to Talk with Faculty about Open

Access

Featuring Erin McKiernan, neuroscientist and advocate for Open Access, Open Science, and Open Data

Amy Knapp Room and via Lync

You’re welcome to invite colleagues from other institutions

Refreshments servedSlide23

OA Week 2014—Historic Pittsburgh Fair

Meet the partners and learn about future plans for this Open Educational Resource

Guest speakers

Steve Mellon, writer,

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Angelique Bamberg, adj. professor of history of art and architecture, Pitt

Discussions and demonstrations on local history research

October

21, 1 to 5 pm: Historic Pittsburgh Fair

University Club, Ballroom

BSlide24

OA Week 2014—Culture Change in Academia

. . . Making sharing the new norm

Public presentation by Erin McKiernan

Featuring short presentations and discussions by Pitt faculty panelists

Brian Beaton, Information Sciences

Gordon Mitchell, Communications

Lara Putnam, History

Jackie Smith, Sociology

Date

: October 22, 3 to 4:30 pm

Location: University Club, Ballroom A

(Note! Room change!)Slide25

OA Week 2014—The Challenge of Openness

. . . And Transparency in Scholarly Communication

Panel presentation by representatives from both traditional and OA publishing interests

Maryann

Martone

, Force11

Peter

Binfield

,

PeerJ

Rachel Burley, John Wiley

Jennifer Lin,

PLoS

Joint program with Carnegie Mellon University Libraries

Date: October 29, 4:30 to 6 pm

Location: 6115 Gates Hillman, CMUSlide26

How you can help

Send individual invitations to faculty, students, and staff you know

At Pitt or outside of Pitt, all are welcome

Interactive: Information, practical advice, discussion, conversation, ideas

Refreshments and new OSCP swag available!

You’re not only supporting the OSCP, you’re supporting the ULS

You gain

cachet

for being

au courant

(and other positive French phrases)Slide27

How can we help you?

Questions and answers about Open Access

and scholarly communication and publishingSlide28

Question: D-Scholarship versus . . .

Why should I deposit my works

in D-Scholarship as opposed to Academia.edu or

ReseachGate

?

Preservation

Who’s doing what with your information?

Pitt-centered scholarship

Copyright guidance

Publishers allow deposits into an IR, not so much into other, commercial repositories

The deposit process is about to get much easier with

Symplectic ElementsSlide29

Question: Altmetrics

What’s the status of

PlumX

? Can faculty still participate?

Yes, faculty can still have profiles created in

PlumX

—just ask OSCP to help

Waiting for

PlumX

to adopt single-sign-on technology

Will allow researchers to create/manage their own profiles

Metrics available in D-Scholarship, e-journals

Now includes EBSCO statistics

Better visualizationsSlide30

Question: OA journals

How can you tell that an OA journal is of high quality?

A better question: How can you tell that

any

scholarly journal is of high quality?

Editorial board and editorial staff

Quality, relevance, and identification

Ethical standards

Peer review (and a clearly stated peer review process)

Quality of content, copyediting, layout

Quality of website and clear contact information

Long-term preservation policySlide31

Question: Research data

What’s Pitt doing about research data? How is the ULS helping researchers with data needs?

Digital Scholarship group working on a web presence for RDM

Strategic options under discussion for FY 16

D-Scholarship can handle small, “fixed” datasets

Larger sets, big data, data

that are

active, may need other solutionsSlide32

Question: ORCID

Hey, what’s up with ORCID?

Pitt is now an institutional member of ORCID

Encourage registration now

Faculty members can register

now but should use

their Pitt e-mail

address for accurate linking

Work groups forming

Communication about ORCID ID and workflow

Registration workflow (individual, institutional)Slide33

Question: Bibliometrics

What’s the current status of those

bibliometrics

/citation tools we trialed in the summer?Slide34

Your questions & answers

What questions do you receive about Open Access? About researcher metrics? About scholarly communication and publishing?Slide35

OA Week is fast approaching! (But, honestly, it’s not that scary)Slide36

Thank you!

John Barnett

Scholarly Communications Librarian

University Library System

University of Pittsburgh

oscp@mail.pitt.edu

CC BY 3.0Slide37

Sources

DeSantis

, N. (2014, August 4). Energy Dept. unveils plan to increase public access to research it finances.

Chronicle of Higher Education.

Retrieved from

http://

chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/energy-dept-unveils-plan-to-increase-public-access-to-research-it-finances/83205

Eve, M. P., Curry, S., & Swan, A. (2014, July 28). Occam’s Corner: Open access: Are effective measures to put UK research online under attack?

The Guardian.

Retrieved from

http://

www.theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/2014/jul/28/open-access-effective-measures-threat

Kaiser, J. (2014, August 4). U.S. Energy Department to make researchers’ papers free.

Science Insider.

Retrieved from

http://

news.sciencemag.org/policy/2014/08/u-s-energy-department-make-researchers-papers-free

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. (2013). Policies and guidelines: Open access: Draft tri-agency open access policy.

Retrieved from

http://

www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NSERC-CRSNG/policies-politiques/Tri-OA-Policy-Politique-LA-Trois_eng.asp

Research Councils UK. (2014). Open access.

Retrieved from

http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/openaccess

/

SPARC

. (2014). National policies. Retrieved from

http://www.sparc.arl.org/advocacy/national

SPARC. (2014). News & media.

Retrieved from

http://

www.sparc.arl.org/news

SPARC. (2014). State policies.

Retrieved from

http://

www.sparc.arl.org/advocacy/state

U.S. Dept. of Education. (2014). Secretary’s Proposed Supplemental Priorities and Definitions for Discretionary Grant Programs.

Retrieved from

http://www.regulations.gov/#!

documentDetail;D=ED-2013-OII-0146-0001

Wellcome

Trust. (2014, May 1). WHO commits to open access by joining Europe PubMed Central.

Retrieved from

http://

www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2014/WTP056351.htm

World Health Organization (2014, July). WHO policy on open access.

Retrieved from

http://www.who.int/about/policy/en

/