CrossMark Gold OA Blog | Gold Open Access Infrastructure

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-05-26

Summary:

"In many content databases, articles are tagged as Open Access (OA) at the journal-level. This approach works for publishers and journals that publish only OA content, but there are different types of OA and different licensing and embargo information that researchers need to be aware of. Publishers also describe their OA offerings in numerous ways, calling them things like Public or Increased Access and they brand it in different ways using different logos, which is confusing for the end-user. Which version of OA are they getting? Further issues exist for publishers of hybrid journals. Publishers are having to adapt their workflows so that they can communicate licensing and embargo information at the article-level when previously the journal-level would have sufficed. Additionally, databases such as PubMed and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) tag journals as OA at the journal-level, so authors who choose to pay to make their content freely available in hybrid journals often don’t have their articles show up as OA in these databases, and other tools that pull information from these sources. As such, authors can lose out on the visibility and distribution that might expect in choosing to make their research Open Access. There are a number of initiatives aimed at addressing the vocabulary issue, like the V4OA vocabularies project and the related NISO Open Access Metadata and Indicators project. CrossRef is part of the NISO project, and based on the recommendations that come out of it, CrossRef will look to provide additions to their metadata so that publishers can deposit standardized OA information at the article level with their DOI deposits, including the license information at that micro-level. At present, there is no standard bibliographic metadata that provides information on whether a specific article is freely readable, so this is what the NISO project is aiming to provide to prevent confusion for end-users. When a standardized vocabulary exists, the information that it provides then needs to be visible and usable in a variety of ways. One way of doing this is through CrossMark, a service from CrossRef, launched in 2012 to communicate updates to pieces of content to researchers. Clicking on the CrossMark logos on the HTML or PDF version of a piece of content will enable a reader to tell if the article they are accessing is up-to-date or if it has been corrected, updated or enhanced since publication. This may become useful in it’s own right in the context of OA; a growing number of publisher are using CC-BY licenses for Gold OA articles, which can lead to the version of record of the article being hosted in many different places outside the publisher’s control. As such, being able to disseminate updates centrally is an important piece of the publishing process. However, alongside CrossMark’s capacity to communicate updates, the Record tab that exists within the CrossMark dialogue box can also display additional publication information about an article. For example, publishers are using it to display information on publication dates, copyright and licensing, peer-review methodology and CrossCheck screening. For CrossMark publishers participating in FundRef, this record tab will also display funding information associated with the article they are accessing. This has important applications for OA infrastructure in that if information on the type of licensing and re-use rights relating to the article is collected within the CrossMark section of the CrossRef deposit, it will automatically appear on the Record tab of the CrossMark dialogue box. This is useful for researchers as if those details are displayed in CrossMark, they have a consistent way of being able to find that information for a piece of content, and the information will travel with the PDF of that content, no matter where a reader accesses it. CrossMark will always provide a link back to the publisher-maintained piece of content and any updates through the CrossRef DOI, so a reader can be sure they can always refer back to the article they originally accessed. CrossMark data is also machine-readable and query-able, and it is accessible through all the methods that CrossRef currently use to distribute metadata. What this means is that directories, link-resolvers and other third-party tools can query this data to display OA information at the article level and distinguish between articles based on that. So if I want a directory of articles that are Gold OA, then I could use the CrossRef metadata to create this ..."

Link:

http://www.goldoa.org.uk/crossmark-gold-oa-blog/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.gold oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.licensing oa.comment oa.copyright oa.cc oa.peer_review oa.metadata oa.impact oa.standards oa.tools oa.hybrid oa.embargoes oa.crossref oa.doaj oa.niso oa.fundref oa.dois oa.versions oa.v4oa oa.crossmark oa.libre oa.journals

Date tagged:

05/26/2013, 09:21

Date published:

05/26/2013, 05:21