Essential information about making your research open access at Lancaster University.

1. Open Access
What you need to know about Open Access
Louise Tripp
Subject Librarian: English, European
Languages, Linguistics, Open Access
The Library (CETAD Building)
l.tripp@lancaster.ac.uk
Tel. (01524) 592546
Tanya Williamson
Assistant Librarian
The Library (CETAD Building)
t.williamson1@lancaster.ac.uk
Tel. (01524) 594284

2. What is Open Access?
We mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting
any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or
link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing,
pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful
purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers…
… the only role for copyright in this domain should be to give
authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to
be properly acknowledged and cited.
(Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002)

3. Why is Open Access relevant?
• Benefits:
• visibility and impact
• speeds up the research process
• data-mining and text-mining - generating new knowledge from existing
findings
• author has control of copyright
• RCUK OA Policy since 1 April 2013
• Journal publishers changing from traditional subscription model
to OA journals/hybrid journals (Gold Open Access)
• HEFCE’s OA policy for next REF:
• Compulsory to make journal articles and conference proceedings OA in
institutional/subject repository within 3 months of acceptance
• Outputs should be in readable/searchable format so can be re-used
• Should be properly attributed
• Likely to increase in more Green OA

4. How do I make my research
Open Access?
LU Funding
£10k for OA charges for non-RCUK research
RCUK Funding
• Applies to journal articles/conference proceedings
• Allocated £165k for 2014/2015 (£140k last year)
• Prefer immediate OA (Gold) or Green within 6/12 months
• Must use CC-BY licence
See Open Access Publishing Workflow

5. • Lead author completes funding form
• Lead author seeks HoD approval
• Email form to openaccess@lancaster.ac.uk
• Library checks criteria
• Final approval sought from Associate Dean for Research
See flowchart You’ve decided on Gold Access – what next?
How do I apply for OA funding?

6. • Open Access LibGuide:
http://lancaster.libguides.com/openaccess
o Application form
o Open Access Publishing Workflow
o Flowchart You’ve Decided on Gold – what next?
• Open Access support
openaccess@lancaster.ac.uk
• Subscribe to Lancaster Open Access Forum email
distribution list:
send an email to majordomo@lists.lancs.ac.uk and type in
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Further help

7. Questions