Publishing in open access journals workshop 2016
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The document provides an overview of open access (OA) publishing, addressing its significance in scholarly communication, common concerns, and pathways for participating in OA. It highlights tools for identifying reputable OA journals, such as DOAJ, Beall's List, and other resources, while explaining the peer review process and article processing charges (APCs). Additionally, it discusses the benefits of OA, including increased visibility and accessibility of research, along with the risks of predatory publishing.
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Publishing in open access journals workshop 2016
- 1. Publishing in Open Access journals Tools and tips to find quality OA journals By Leena Shah DOAJ Ambassador for India Workshop at SCCS Conference Bengaluru 2016 22nd Sept 2016
- 2. Part 1 - Understanding Open Access Questions to Ponder • What is Open Access (OA)? • What problem in Scholarly Communication is OA trying to address? • How do you participate in OA? • Why is OA important to researchers? • What are the typical concerns in OA?
- 3. Part 2 - Publishing in Open Access Journals Tools and Tips • DOAJ • Beall’s list • Think.Check.Submit. • Journalysis • QOAM
- 4. What is Open Access? 1. Free information 2. Free access to information 3. Free access to information for academia 4. Free online access to scholarly information for everyone Discussion
- 5. Remove access & price barriers Remove permission barriers To make content of all scholarly articles freely available onlineGOAL For a work to be OA, the copyright holder must consent in advance to let users “copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship” (Bethesda, Berlin statements)
- 6. Libraries Universities & Institutions Scholars Free Provide access OPEN ACCESS ARCHIVES GREEN ROUTE Articles freely available in repositories – discoverable on the Internet Inelastic supply Increase disciplines & therefore titles –small base Profiteering? DUE TO : SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION CRISIS OPEN ACCESS Articles freely available in peer review OA journals OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS GOLD ROUTE Publishers Sign over copyright Peer review
- 7. GOLD ROUTE Identify a reputable OA journal1 Send your paper for peer review 2 When paper is accepted – pay an “article processing charge” (APC) to publisher 3 Your paper is published in the OA journal 4
- 8. Use DOAJ to look for OA journals 9,000 journals 130 countries 2 m articles Full-text OA journals Identify a reputable OA journal 1 Send your paper for peer review 2 When paper is accepted – pay an “article processing charge” (APC) to publisher 3 Your paper is published in the OA journal 4 GOLD ROUTE
- 9. Range from $0 to >$4,000 USD APC needed to sustain model Costs to researcher Pay from research funds Paid from university allocated funds for APC Seek waivers & discount Identify a reputable OA journal 1 Send your paper for peer review 2 When paper is accepted – pay an “article processing charge” (APC) to publisher 3 Your paper is published in the OA journal 4 GOLD ROUTE
- 10. Article will be available to anyone immediately Identify a reputable OA journal 1 Send your paper for peer review 2 When paper is accepted – pay an “article processing charge” (APC) to publisher 3 Your paper is published in the OA journal 4 GOLD ROUTE
- 11. Submit paper to selected journal as per normal 1 When paper is accepted – submit final peer- reviewed copy to an open repository (e.g. institutional Repository such as ePrints@IISc) 2 Metadata of record will be picked up by Google 3 GREEN ROUTE 4 Anyone can find your article via Google
- 12. Discussion Match the following 1. Pre-print 2. Accepted/peer- reviewed version 3. Post-print • The version of the article as reviewed and edited, the version that will be published. This is a confusing term and is sometimes used to describe the final, published version • An article that has been submitted to a journal but has not yet gone through peer review and has not been accepted. • final draft, the version of an article that has been accepted for publication reflecting changes made during the review process.
- 13. Self-archiving http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ 69% of publishers allow Use author addendum for white publishers Submit paper to selected journal as per normal 1 When paper is accepted – submit final peer- reviewed copy to an open repository 2 Metadata of record will be picked up by Google 3 GREEN ROUTE 4 Anyone can find your article via Google
- 14. Institutional Repository Self submission online or mediated by librarians 2,730 worldwide (1-Mar-2015) Usually managed by university libraries Submit paper to selected journal as per normal 1 When paper is accepted – submit final peer- reviewed copy to an open repository 2 Metadata of record will be picked up by Google 3 GREEN ROUTE 4 Anyone can find your article via Google
- 15. Publishers typically allow with embargo period – 6 months to 2 years Submit paper to selected journal as per normal 1 When paper is accepted – submit final peer- reviewed copy to an open repository 2 Metadata of record will be picked up by Google 3 GREEN ROUTE 4 Anyone can find your article via Google Most publishers only allow “accepted version” and not the journal formatted version to be archived in repository Accepted version is your final manuscript after peer review. Most publishers allow this version to be made available via your institutional repository. Do not lose it!
- 16. Users can either search in the institutional repository or in Google for your article Find out if your library/institution supports the Green Route Submit paper to selected journal as per normal 1 When paper is accepted – submit final peer- reviewed copy to an open repository 2 Metadata of record will be picked up by Google 3 GREEN ROUTE 4 Anyone can find your article via Google
- 17. Does your institution have an institutional repository? How do you deposit your article into the repository? Is it mandatory to do so? Do you know who to contact if you are not sure? Discussion
- 18. Why do researchers need to participate actively in open access? Discussion
- 19. Increase visibility of your work People in institutions where libraries can afford journal subscriptions Available only to Your article is on open access Available to All internet users in the world (3 billion!) Your article only available in subscription journals HIGHER CHANCES OF BEING CITED Possible citation limited to this small group
- 20. Increase visibility of your work Data from Gargouri & Harnad, 2010: http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18493/). From http://www.sconul .ac.uk /sites/default/files/documents/OA_impact_briefing.pdf (Prepared by Alma Swan on behalf of RLUK and SCONUL
- 21. Increase visibility of your work Data from Gargouri & Harnad, 2010: http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18493/). From http://www.sconul .ac.uk /sites/default/files/documents/OA_impact_briefing.pdf (Prepared by Alma Swan on behalf of RLUK and SCONUL
- 22. Data from Gargouri & Harnad, 2010: http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18493/). From http://www.sconul .ac.uk /sites/default/files/documents/OA_impact_briefing.pdf (Prepared by Alma Swan on behalf of RLUK and SCONUL Increase visibility of your work
- 23. increased exposure of your work could also lead to more networking, collaboration and opportunities that advance your work Increase visibility of your work Globalization
- 24. Serves public interest UNIVERSITIES FUNDING BODIES PUBLIC
- 25. Access to 223 databases, 55,000 e-journal, 642,200 e-books STUDENT GRADUATED Zero access Serves public interest DEVELOPING COUNTRIES LET YOUR RESEARCH BENEFIT OTHERS IN THE WORLD
- 26. Serves public interest Improve quality of information on the Internet Increase authoritative information on the Internet Counteract unreliable and fraudulent information Allow people to verify claims
- 27. https://osc.hul.harvard.edu/dash/stories STORIES ON IMPACT OF OPEN ACCESS Serves public interest
- 28. STUDENTS
- 29. GOVERNMENT
- 30. INDUSTRY
- 31. PARENTS
- 32. VERIFYING CLAIMS
- 33. Compliance with mandates OA mandates from research funding agencies & institutions require their grantees to submit their publications to an open repository or publish in OA journals.
- 34. Compliance with mandates National Institute of Health (2007) mandate First mandate from major US funding agency - Deposit to PUBMED Central - 12 months embargo - 75% compliance (2012, Poynder) Finch Report (2012) (UK) Favours gold route Research Council UK (RCUK)(2012) Accept both Gold and Green routes – 6 months embargo European Commission From 2014, requires deposit in IR upon publication. 6 months embargo in STEM and 12 months for humanities & social sciences Large foundations – Gates, Ford, Packard, Open Society, etc. Requires grantees to publish their work under CC BY license – allow use, reuse, remixing, etc.
- 35. Does your Institution/funding body have an Open Access Mandate? Discussion
- 36. Concerns about Open Access OA journals indexed in WoS & Scopus are approaching same impact & quality as subscription journals (Bjork & Solomon, 2012)
- 37. Concerns about Open Access RETORT: Is it about OA or peer review; No control group Warning signs: promise of quick turnaround with peer review; falsifying credentials; using unsolicited mail, etc. Consult your librarian!. “Sting operation” by John Bohannon (Science News) - Variation of a bogus paper submitted to 304 OA journals - Half of the OA journals accepted the paper QUESTIONABLE (or PREDATORY) PUBLISHERS The practice of charging APC in Gold OA encouraged some unscrupulous publishers to exploit researchers eager to publish quickly
- 38. What is ‘Predatory’ publishing? Predatory or questionable publishers.. publish counterfeit journals and charge APC but do not conduct peer-review or editorial services and operate on a profit-motive. They prey on scholars using many of the same techniques as phishing scams, e.g. email blasts with plausible stories with the aim to dupe researchers, esp. those inexperienced in scholarly communication. Beall, J. (2012) “Predatory publishers are corrupting open access”, Nature, vol. 489 iss. 7415. http://www.nature.com/news/predatory-publishers-are-corrupting-open-access-1.11385
- 39. How do you detect Predatory Publishers? Predatory publishers are characterized by the following deceptive practices: • Phony Journals with titles that may be similar to respected journals • Fake editorial boards--these may be real researchers whose names are used without their knowledge. • Editorial boards that are identical across all of a publishers titles • Fees to withdraw an article • Display fake impact factors • No clarity of its peer-review process and/or submission – publishing time • Displays false claims of its content indexed in legitimate indexing services
- 40. • Your work may be published alongside substandard work and it can devalue your publishing record • Can restrict you from publishing in good quality journals (because of the licence you agree to) Discussion What happens if you publish in a predatory journal?
- 41. What are Impact Factors? The journal IF was invented in the 1960s by Eugene Garfield and was intended as a tool to help librarians make selection decisions and authors identify publishing venues. Today, the Impact Factor is a propriety calculation that is available only through Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports. Generally speaking, the higher the number, the higher the quality and prestige of the journal, although the impact factor is most useful when evaluating journals within the same discipline. Source: Libguides at Lamar Soutter libraryhttp://libraryguides.umassmed.edu/research_impact/impact_factor Citations and research impact, NTU Library http://www.ntu.edu.sg/Library/Pages/citations.aspx
- 42. Fake Impact Factors Universal Impact Factor {UIF} These fake IF companies exists solely for the purpose of earning money from questionable journals that use the gold open-access model. The company charges the journals and assigns them a value, and then the journals use the number to help increase article submissions and therefore revenue. Source: Misleading Metrics by Jeffrey Beall. https://scholarlyoa.com/other-pages/misleading-metrics/
- 43. What do you think is the motive for predatory/questionable publishers? Choose one: A) To improve credibility of their journal by publishing a large number of research articles and increasing their impact factor B) The editors have free time and want to help early-career researchers by publishing their research papers C) Their motive is to make money by publishing articles D) All of the above Discussion
- 44. If the journal charges APC (Article Processing Charge) then the journal is a ‘Predatory Journal’ Is this true or false? Discussion
- 45. Publishing in Open Access journal Where do you start? DOAJ [Directory of Open Access Journals] https://doaj.org/ • Not for profit organisation launched in 2003, Lund University, Sweden • Starting point for all information searches for quality, peer-reviewed open access material
- 46. What does DOAJ offer you as a researcher/student? • Index of quality peer-reviewed OA journals across disciplines • Web-based search, browse by discipline • 9199 journals • 130 countries • 2 million articles (research /review) – access to full-text
- 47. Let’s access DOAJ and find out how many OA journals you can find for ‘environmental science’? https://doaj.org/ Let’s get online
- 49. Publishing in Open Access journal Is the publisher reputable? Beall’s list by Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at University of Colorado Denver, publishes on his blog a list of questionable, probably predatory scholarly OA publishers and more.. 1. Blacklist of predatory publishers : https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ 2. List of Hijacked Journal : https://scholarlyoa.com/other-pages/hijacked- journals/ 3. Misleading Metrics : https://scholarlyoa.com/other-pages/misleading- metrics/ Some criticism of Beall’s list: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/05/11/should-we-retire-the-term- predatory-publishing/ These lists are by no means comprehensive and authoritative. They are designed to help authors, but are not the final authority on this topic. The lists are frequently updated, but all authors should conduct their own due diligence to reach their own conclusions
- 50. Publishing in Open Access journal A checklist for your own evaluation . Sharing research results with the world is key to the progress of your discipline and career. But with so many publications, how can you be sure you can trust a particular journal? Follow this check list to make sure you choose trusted journals for your research. Reference this list for your chosen journal to check if it is trusted. •Do you or your colleagues know the journal? – Have you read any articles in the journal before? – Is it easy to discover the latest papers in the journal? •Can you easily identify and contact the publisher? – Is the publisher name clearly displayed on the journal website? – Can you contact the publisher by telephone, email, and post? •Is the journal clear about the type of peer review it uses? •Are articles indexed in services that you use? •Is it clear what fees will be charged? – Does the journal site explain what these fees are for and when they will be charged? •Do you recognise the editorial board? – Have you heard of the editorial board members? – Do the editorial board mention the journal on their own websites? •Is the publisher a member of a recognized industry initiative? – Do they belong to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) ? – If the journal is open access, is it listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) ? – If the journal is open access, does the publisher belong to the Open Access Scholarly Publishers’ Association (OASPA) ? – Is the publisher a member of another trade association? Watch this video that explains : https://vimeo.com/151882443
- 51. A) Is there a peer-review process? Will your submission be sent out to reviewers? B) Who are the editors and what are their credentials? C) What are the copyright implications D) Does the website make sense? Are there any spelling/grammar mistakes? E) Consult your librarian if you are still unsure F) All of the above Discussion What will you check for if you receive an invitation from an unknown journal publisher to submit your research paper ?
- 52. Publishing in Open Access journal Journalysis is a free service for academic authors run by academic authors for reviewing experiences with academic journals. http://www.journalysis.org/ QOAM is a is a crowd-sourced effort that rates journals with score cards. Green for strong, Yellow for weak, Red for Threat to authors and Blue for opportunity for publishers.. https://www.qoam.eu/ JournalGuide is a free tool created by a group of software developers, former researchers, and scholarly publishing veterans at Research Square. It gives authors a simple way to choose the best journal for their research. https://www.journalguide.com/
- 53. If you are still not sure about the quality of the OA journal, what is the best method to check? Discussion Ask a Librarian
- 54. Directories – OA and Free Journals • DOAJ (Directory of OA journals) https://doaj.org/ • OpenDOAR (Directory of OA Repositories) www.opendoar.org • DOAB (Directory of OA books) http://doabooks.org/ Disciplinary Archives • arXiv http://arxiv.org/ • SSRN http://ssrn.com/en/ • bioRxiv http://biorxiv.org/ • ChemRxiv - announcement by ACS in Aug ‘16 Publishers & distributors • BioMed Central http://www.biomedcentral.com/home/ • Public Library of Science (PLoS) http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/ Some popular OA resources • PubMed Central (PMC) http://www.pubmedcentral.org/ • SciELO http://www.scielo.org/index.php?lang=en • Wiley OA journals http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/view/journals .html • HighWire Press http://www.highwire.org/lists/freeart.dtl • PeerJ https://peerj.com/ • SAGE Open http://sgo.sagepub.com/ Databases and networks ScienceOpen https://www.scienceopen.com/ Digital Commons Network http://network.bepress.com/ Source: 1. Open Access Resources. Libguides at University of St. Andres http://libguides.st-andrews.ac.uk/c.php?g=369375&p=2495654 2. Open Access Webliography. Adrian Ho and Charles Bailey. http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/oaw.htm
- 55. Creative Commons Licenses CC licenses provide free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, students and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use Creative Commons to change your copyright from "all rights reserved" to "some rights reserved."
- 56. Conclusion I'm Starting With The Man In The Mirror I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways Everybody wants free access to scholarly material .. Start that change with yourself.. When you publish your research adopt either the Green or Gold route and make it Open Access. If you adopt the Gold route- start with looking up an authoritative index like DOAJ to decide where to publish
- 57. Further reading 1. Budapest Open Access Initiative http://www.soros.org/openaccess/index.shtml 2. Bethesda Statement on Open Access http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm 3. Open Access (Peter Suber) https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/9780262517638_Open_Access_PDF_Version.pdf 4. Criteria for open access and publishing (written by DOAJ team) https://www.scienceopen.com/document?id=85a98041-8734-4a43-b6eb-ff5903f3ae96 5. Practical guide to using Creative Commons licenses https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Content_- _A_Practical_Guide_to_Using_Creative_Commons_Licences 6. Peer review quality and transparency... http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0147913 7. Predatory open access (Shen and Bjork) http://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-015-0469-2
- 58. Credits This presentation has used ideas and information from: FC Choy (2015). Why is Open Access important to researchers? [PowerPoint Slides]. Presented at Academic Publishing 2015, NTU Libraries, Singapore.