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Open Access: archives, journals Introduction to OA scientific academic resources Trento, 2
What is Open Access? ACADEMIC SCIENTIFIC BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESOURCES digital, online, permanent, free from most restrictions due to commercial exploitation of intellectual property rights. open as far as computer science architecture is concerned (its interface facilitates dissemination and retrieval of contents by a provider) open does not mean free or forever according to an alternative economic model (author/institution pays) = research outputs belong to research insitutions and authors, not publishers disseminated not alternatively to traditional commercial publishing models, but in a complementary way. 3
Open Access and Open Source ARE NOT THE SAME CONCEPT!!! Open Source ( free software http://www.italy.fsfeurope.org/documents/freesoftware.it.html ) in computer science: means that a software is released under a license which enables further developements of the source code with free and spontaneous collaboration among people. 4 Open Access means that each web user has the right to access academic scientific publicly funded research outputs. The access must be free, immediate, full text, online. It can follow a Gold Road (OA publishing in OA journals) or a Green Road (OA self-archiving in insititutional or subject archives).
Some definitions Eprints (generic term) : electronic versions of articles, before or after refereeing and/or publication Preprints : versions of articles before refereeing (peer-review) Postprints : versions of articles after refereeing (not necessarily with the original publisher s layout) Corrigenda : list of variations which distinguish a preprint without referee from a refereed postprint (which can be archived together with the preprint if the publisher does not allow the postprint to be archived). 5
Two Roads for Open Access GOLD ROAD - publishing articles in open access journals GREEN ROAD - (self-)archiving scientific output in open access repositories 6
Peer review Open Access is absolutely peer-review compatible: Open Archives (= Repositories) do not require have peer review but part of its content can be peer reviewed (i.e.: refereed post-prints). (Most) Open Access Journals do have peer review. 7
Why Open Access? Why do we have to pay n times for publicly funded research? We should reaffirm students and professors right to reaserch. 8
Open Access and researchers problems 9
(Nice) Side-effects of Open Access Wider and faster dissemination of research outputs greater impact of research outputs on (intern)ational academic community simpler and more immediate use of and access to the output greater visibility of each author s research outputs and of his/her institution author s control on his/her intellectual property and publications 10
Visibility self-archiving in a repository OAI-PMH makes the difference search on Google or Google Scholar; your item will be retrieved as one of the first hits by the search engine. vs. deep web (not freely accessible websites i.e. password protected or with a fee (such as bibliographic databases)) vs. HTML pages as a result of a search in a catalogue 11
Access and impact 12
OA and IF (ottobre 2004) Thomson Scientific - ISI Web of Science : Web Citation Index (beta). Indexes open archives (both institutional and subject), by retrieving abstracts and, when available, full texts. (http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/news_and_events/news_articles/web_citation_update ). The product is available for customers starting from the end of 2008 (http://isiwebofknowledge.com/currentuser_wokhome/cu_productspecs/tswebplus/ ). More than 200 open access journals were already indexed by ISI in 2004. 13
OA vs. IF? Impact Factor = ISI Web of Science questionable mathematical (and commercial!) model Citation Impact, downloads ( hits ), webometrics (more) convincing alternative models http://www.citebase.org/static/isi_study/ http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html 14
Bibliometrics and webometrics IF immediacy index g-index Contempo rary h- index h-bindex a- index WIF e UF cited half-life I S I h-index PAPER individual h-index rate of cites index AWCR m-index citation impact AWCRpA AWindex Eigenfactor 15
Green Road today - 1 2154 repositories around the world 1766 (82%) institutional, 241 discipline-based (11,2%) 1000 in Europe (46,4%), 481 in North America (22,3%), 374 in Asia (17,4%) 406 in USA (18,8%), 203 UK (9,4%), 152 Germany (7,1%),, 68 Italy (3,2%) 38,9% uses DSpace, 15,2% uses Eprints 52% English, 7% Spanish, 6% German, 4% French, 4% Japanese,., 2% italiano (9 in ranking) Dati: OpenDOAR (05/02/2012) 16
Green Road today - 2 Dati: OpenDOAR (05/02/2012) 17
Green Road today - 3 Dati: OpenDOAR (05/02/2012) 18
Types of OA repositories (Green Road) Institutional Disciplinary 19
OA institutional repositories Institutional repositories are an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating -- in digital form -- the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution. I.e..: Unitn-eprints, Archivio e-prints Università di Messina; Archivi Alma-DL Università di Bologna, Archivio e-prints Università di Firenze, FedOA (Na) 20
OA disciplinary repositories Disciplinary repositories are collections containing works of scholars focused on a particular subject area (physics, economics, information science, etc.). ad es.: ArXiv, RePEC, E-lis... 21
Unitn for OA Subscribed Berlin Declaration (2003) with the Dichiarazione di Messina (2004) released in 2003 the institutional archive Unitn-eprints Research released in 2008 the institutional archive for PhD theses Unitn-eprints PhD takes part in the Open Access Working Group of the CRUI Library Commission, with which Unitn published a series of Giudelines: - Guidelines for institutional archives - Open Access Journals: Guidelines - OA, research evaluation and assessment: Guidelines 22
Unitn-eprints: a few data (07/02/12) IN S E R IME N T IA N N U A L I 8172 registered users 1589 archived articles 210 articles in users workspaces 14 departmental series 200 150 100 50 0 23 Informatica e Telecomunicazioni 937 Matematica 147 Economia 93 Scienze Giuridiche 74 CoSBi (Microsoft Research University of Trento Centre for Computational 64 and Systems Biology) Informatica e Studi Aziendali 64 Studi Letterari, Linguistici e Filologici 62 CEEL (Computable and Experimental Economics Laboratory) 46 Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale 38 ISSAN (Istituto Studi Sviluppo Aziendale Noprofit) 23 Transcrime (Research Centre on Transnational Crime) 18 Filosofia, Storia e Beni Culturali 13 Scienze della Cognizione e della Formazione 4 Ingegneria Meccanica e Strutturale 2 Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale 1 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 ACCESSES 31-12-2011: 1.779.682 A N N O VISITS: 142.116 (1,33 visits/visitor) VISITORS: 107.738 GB ACCESSES BY ROBOTS and SPIDER: 483.661 Yahoo Slurp. 190.976 Googlebot, 83.406 MSNBot DIRECT ACCESSES : 269.895 ACCESSES from web search engine: 89.913 (Google 81.759)
Unitn-eprints PhD 429 users 351 archived theses 2 pending item 107 theses in users workspaces (Updated 05/02/12) 24
Open Access Journals today (Gold Road) 7459 OA journals Updated : DOAJ (05/02/12) 3589 journals searchable at article level OA Journals in DOAJ : - have a financial model which does not weigh on readers or institutions - Give the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, research or link to articles full texts - In order to be indexed by yìthe directory, they must guarantee peer-review or a publishing/editorial quality control 25
Some instiutional documents about OA Frederick J. Friend, Il supporto all accesso aperto da parte delle istituzioni che finanziano la ricerca Berlin Declaration [22-10-2003] ( traduzione italiana ) IFLA Statement on Open Access [05-12-2003] United Kingdom, Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee, 10th Report [7 luglio 2004] ( riassunto in italiano) Dichiarazione di Messina [04-11-2004] (traduzione inglese) 26
Some useful linkt about OA Lists Related to The Open Access Movement (Peter Suber) Open Access Week 2012 27 OA Wiki Italia
and other webliography OA FOR STUDENTS AND PHD STUDENTS Student Resources Universities which adopted CRUI Guidelines about Doctoral Theses and OA 28 OA FOR AUTHORS False myths Open Access for authors Open Access benefits Create Change! Research today How reaserch changes How academic communication changes Benefits for researchers Resources for authors Author Rights Resources SPARC Publishing Addendum Institutional Policies OA FOR EVERYONE Open Access (by SPARC) The ABC's of Open Access
Videos and tutorials about OA What is Open Access? An author's rights 29 Author Rights (for access to webcast, click here) and just search!
PhD Student as an advanced student and researcher how can (s)he find OA contents for his/her studies and researches? (1) author where can (s)he publish retaining his/her copyright? (2) 30
(1) Some service providers OAISTER http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister;page=simple SCIRUS Gateway http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/advanced/index.jsp CITEBASE (citation-ranked search and impact discovery for arxiv, CogPrints and BioMed Central) http://www.citebase.org/ Dutch academic research results: http://www.narcis.nl/ Cream of Science showcases prominent research from the Netherlands Promise of Science provides a simple way to search for doctoral e-theses in the Netherlands Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Union Catalog http://www.ndltd.org/find 31
(1) Academic-scientific search engines 32
(1) OA Archives Indexes TARDIS... Repository maps! 33
(1) OA journal indexes 34
(2) Legal aspects / 1 moral and economic rights - RETAINED Stevan Harnad (University of Southampton) : easier to detect plagiarism on the web (digital form) than in print (see Self-Archiving FAQ). 35
(2) Legal Aspects / 2 Does your publisher allow self-archiving? See Sherpa e RoMEO projects: 36
(2) Legal aspects / 3 37
(2) Authors, know your rights! http://eprints.biblio.unitn.it/help/know-yourrights.pdf 38
OA repositories for cognitive sciences / 1 COGPRINTS DMOZ 39 - OpenDOAR 176 archives on Health and medicine Theses: - 132 archives on Technology general - 110 archives on Computer and IT - 87 archives on Education - 42 archives on Psychology LOT http://www.lotpublications.nl/index.html NDLTD http://www.ndltd.org/ DART-Europe http://www.dart-europe.eu/basic-search.php
OA repositories for cognitive sciences / 2 Publisher supported (author self-archiving) preprint archives NetPrints Clinical Medicine and Health Research (December 1999- ), BMJ Publishing Group and HighWire Press (non-peer reviewed original research) http://clinmed.netprints.org/home.dtl HTP Prints, the History & Theory of Psychology Eprint Archive (September 2001- ), administered at York University, Toronto http://htpprints.yorku.ca/ Education-line (1997- ), a freely accessible database of the full text of conference papers, working papers and electronic literature which supports educational research, policy and practice, initially a project in the JISC Electronic Libraries (elib) Programme, administered by the Brotherton 40 Library, University of Leeds http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/
OA journals for cognitive sciences / 1 BioMed Central (226 peer-reviewed journals at February 2011) http://www.biomedcentral.com/start.asp es.: http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcneurosci/ PubMed Central (PMC) (2.3 million articles archived at February 2011) http://pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ HIGH WIRE PRESS http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl 41
OA journals for cognitive sciences / 2 PLoS http://www.plos.org/ PLoS ONE http://www.plosone.org/ in all areas of science and medicine.) (publication of peer-reviewed research PLoS Medicine http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=indexhtml&issn=1549-1676 PLoS Biology http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=indexhtml&issn=1545-7885 PLoS Computational Biology http://compbiol.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=index-html&issn=1553-7358 42
OA journals for cognitive sciences / 3 DOAJ : 44 journals about Subjects > Biology and Life Sciences > Life Sciences > Biotechnology (http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=subject&cpid=77) 510 journals about Subjects > Social Sciences > Education (http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=subject&cpid=127 ) 158 journals about Subjects > Social Sciences > Psychology (http://www.doaj.org/doaj?cpid=128&func=subject ) 43 BBSP (Behavioural and Brain Sciences Prints) http://www.bbsonline.org/ PSYCHOLOQUY http://psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
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