1. Open Access and Scholarly
Communications
V. Sriram
Chief Librarian, K.N.Raj Library
Centre for Development Studies
Thiruvananthapuram
Thiruvananthapuram
Online Lecture
St. Teresa’s College
Ernakulam, India
15th December 2021
2. Contents
Open Access Publishing
Self-archiving and SHERPA-RoMEO
Avoiding Predatory Publishers
Tools for journals selection
Tools for journals selection
Writing for community
Social networking
3. Avenues of Publication
Journal article
Article in a collection
Contribution to
newspapers
Commentaries
Book
Book editorial
Book section / chapter
Book review
WP / OP / Notes
Commentaries
Internal or external
report
Dissertation / Thesis
WP / OP / Notes
Popular publications
Blogs / Wikis
Multimedia
Video
Podcasts
4. Open Access
Articles are free to all interested readers
No copyright barriers between the readers
and the article.
OA stands for unrestricted access and
OA stands for unrestricted access and
unrestricted reuse
OA Policies of funders to higher education
institutions
5. Open Access
OA Initiatives
Budapest OA Initiative 2002
Bethesda Statement on OA Publishing 2003
Berlin Declaration on OA Knowledge 2003
Berlin Declaration on OA Knowledge 2003
7. OA Benefits
Accelerated discovery
Inclusive
Faster research
Global visibility
Global visibility
Knowledge economy
Immediate use
8. Misconceptions about OA
Author loses copyright
No peer review
Not indexed in global DB
No impact factor
Extra work by authors to self-archive
Spamming by predatory publishers
Non availability of good OA in all
subjects
9. OA Publishers
BioMed Central publishes 272 peer-
reviewed open access journals.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
Public Library of Science (PLOS)
Public Library of Science (PLOS)
http://www.plos.org/
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
http://doaj.org/ (More than 16620 journals)
10. Self Archiving
What?
Authors make their articles freely available on
the Internet.
Versions : –
Preprint
Post print - Author
Post print - Publisher
11. Self Archiving
Why?
Articles made available openly are read and
cited more.
Several funding agencies required that the
publications financed by them should be
available for free for everyone.
12. Self Archiving
How?
Self-archiving by :
Author’s website,
Subject archives,
Institutional archive.
Institutional archive.
Awareness about publisher policies on
archiving.
https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-
resources/Journal-Authors/licensing/self-
archiving.html
14. Predatory Publishers
Several publishers publish counterfeit
journals to exploit open access model.
They lack transparency. Quality of
publications are poor, and questionable.
Scholars and researchers also take
Scholars and researchers also take
unethical shortcuts and try to publish by
paying.
16. Find the right journal
Journal website
Editor / Editorial Board Members
Journal coverage / objectives
Journal Indexing Services, DOAJ, COPE
Peer review process, timelines to publish.
Peer review process, timelines to publish.
Read the past issues of the journal
UGC – CARE List of Journals
Think! Check! Submit!
17. Tools for Journal Selection
Elsevier Journal Finder
https://journalfinder.elsevier.com/
JANE https://jane.biosemantics.org/
Journal Finder
https://journalfinder.wiley.com/
Manuscript Matcher
Manuscript Matcher
https://endnote.com/product-
details/manuscript-matcher/
Open Journal Matcher https://ojm.ocert.at/
Springer Journal Suggester
https://journalsuggester.springer.com/
20. Writing for society
Research is funded by society, hence the
results should also reach them.
Every year publish at least one non-academic
item in magazine, news paper, blogs and so
on.
on.
Continuously engage the society by
communicating to it about your research, its
results and its implications.
Use mass media to its maximum.
Altmetrics is gaining importance
21. Contributing to mother tongue
Publish at least one item per year in your
mother tongue.
Knowledge base in any language will grow
and get enriched only with systematic efforts.
Every language has its own importance in the
Every language has its own importance in the
development of the region.