Repositories and Open Access Journals | Lewys Jones's Blog
abernard102@gmail.com 2012-10-01
Summary:
"The fourth seminar of the LERU 2012 Open-access workshop was delivered by Judit Casala and was run as a short workshop on the topic of 'repositories and open access journals'. These are two different, but complimentary, methods of increasing the amount of OA content that is available to readers... The future of open access publishing will certainly have to have OA journals at its heart. Open access should remove price barriers for readers, allow the public to access to publicly funded research and return some benefit to the wider public from invested public money. In the EU it is expected that 15% of science and technology papers will be available as gold standard by 2015. In terms of making works as widely available as possible, if an author has chosen to publish their content in an open access journal then generally they retain full exploitation rights and can take charge of the dissemination and publicity surrounding their work. It may be applicable for a creative commons license to be used to specify how the work can be reused. If publishing in a fully open access journal was not an option then the subsequent use of repositories may prove useful... For published items where the author has retained the exploitation rights, if you want to enhance the visibility of that content, you can simply deposit a copy of the work into a repository or publish it on a personal website. A repository is an electronic library, usually accessed over the internet and maintained by an academic institution or national body. Institutional repositories are often used to archive the content of the academics working there whereas wider-catchment repositories are often separated into various research field themes. Repository content should always be accompanied by meta-data... Some journals allow versions of papers to be submitted that are slightly different from the finalised version. SHERPA/RoMEO is an internet database of various publishers copyright permissions. It should be said that the database is only a guide and the final say will always rest in the details of the copyright-transfer form the author signed..."