Paper presented at the Vaal University of Technology Mini-Seminar on Open Access, 25 October 2012

1. OPEN ACCESS FOR RESEARCH:
THE LIBRARIAN OVERVIEW OF
OPPORTUNITIES AND TRENDS
Pavlinka Kovatcheva
Faculty Librarian: Science,
University of Johannesburg
E-mail: pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za
Vaal University of Technology
Open Access Mini-Seminar,
25 October 2012

2. PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Open Access for Research
Institutional Repositories
Publishers Subscription & Open Access
Journals
African & South African Open Access Journals
Open Access Journal Collections & Web
Resources
Social Media and Research
Librarian Support to Researchers

3. •What Researchers should know about OA
•Accredited Open Access Journals
•Funding Opportunities for Publishing in OA
OPEN ACCESS FOR RESEARCH

4. OPEN ACCESS FOR RESEARCH
Open Access....
 Maximises the access to the research findings;
 Increases research impact to a wider readership;
 Expands shared knowledge across scientific field;
 Make your research output more visible to researchers
elsewhere and make research from elsewhere more
accessible;
 Universities and Research Institutions afford to subscribe to
a fraction of those journals, that means that research is
having only a fraction of its potential usage and impact
 Increases the citation impact of the author;
 Over time increases the Journal Impact Factor (?)

5. WHAT ELSE DO RESEARCHERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OA?
 What OA journals exist in your research field?
- Open Science Directory, BioMed Central, PloS, DOAJ ...
 What Institutional Repository your institution use and
how a researchers can benefit from it?
- UJDigispace; VUT’s DigiResearch
 Publishing in subscription-based journals, can limit your
readership (Science Direct; Wiley Online, SpringerLink, etc.)
 Publishing your pre-print article in OA repositories can
enlarge your readership and citation impact: Arxiv.org;
UJDigispace; VUT’s DigiResearch ....
 Deposit your post-prints in a OA Repository:
UJDigispace, VUT’s DigiResearch ....
 As a Researcher you have an option to publish in
Accredited Open Access Journals (AOAJSA)

6. FUNDING FOR PUBLISHING IN OA JOURNALS
Funding options:
 OA journals do not generate revenue
 Some OA Publishers receive funding in exchange
for advertising on their web
 Some OA journals require payments from the
Authors for article submission
 Government can subsidise OA Publishers
/Institutions for producing freely available
information
 International funding agencies (Collaboration)
 Institutional Membership paid on behalf of the
Authors

7. ACCREDITED OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS – SOUTH AFRICA (AOAJSA)
HTTP://WWW.AIS.UP.AC.ZA/AOAJSA.HTM

8. UJDigispace : UJ IR
IRSpace: South African IR
Open DOAR: International IR Directory
Driver: IR for European Research
SOUTH AFRICAN & INTERNATIONAL
INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES (IR)
SELF- ARCHIVING
FACILITATE EASY-ACCESS
ENHANCE RESEARCH IMPACT

10. https://ujdigispace.uj.ac.za/

12. UJDIGISPACE SEPTEMBER 2012: STATISTICS

14. http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=013518019117943970829%3Atlw8-sayn_q

15. OPEN DOAR
HTTP://WWW.OPENDOAR.ORG/SEARCH.PHP

16. DRIVER FOR EUROPEAN RESEARCH
HTTP://SEARCH.DRIVER.RESEARCH-INFRASTRUCTURES.EU/

17. PUBLISHERS SUBSCRIPTIONS &
OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

18. UJ SUBSCRIPTION-BASED DATABASES
OVER 150 DATABASES IN 2011; OVER R 7.5 MILLIONS

19. PUBLISHERS OPEN
ACCESS INITIATIVES (1)
 Rapid publication
 Quality, reputation and high standard of peer review
 Impact Factors and Thomson Reuters (ISI) citation
tracking
 High visibility and international readership in your field
 Included in all major bibliographic databases
 You retain copyright, licensing the article under a
Creative Commons license
 From broad to specialist interest journals
 No space constraints
http://www.springeropen.com/

20. PUBLISHERS OPEN ACCESS
INITIATIVES (2)
 Articles published in these journals are freely
available to anyone
 To support the costs associated with publishing,
article processing fees apply.
 These cover costs including: managing the peer
review process, supporting our publishing and
hosting platforms, typesetting, marketing and other
publishing costs.
 These are paid by the author (or their funding body
or institution) after acceptance.
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/intro.cws_home/open_access

21. PUBLISHERS OPEN ACCESS
INITIATIVES (3)
Wiley Open Access offers authors, readers, institutions,
funders and societies:
 Open access to their research: freely available on Wiley Online
Library and PubMed Central
 Fast efficient publication
 Quality and authoritative open access publishing
 Stringent peer review
 High-level editorial support – each journal has a dedicated
Editor-in-Chief and international editorial board members as well
as clear editorial policies
 Longevity guaranteed – Wiley Open Access journals are
published by Wiley, one of the world's foremost academic and
professional publishers and the largest society publisher
 Article and institutional-level metrics
 Easy sharing – social networking and more
http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/view/index.html

22. http://creativecommons.org/about/license/

23. •SABINET: African Journals Online Archives
•SABINET: Open Access South African Journals
•SciElo (Academy of Science of SA– ASSAF)
AFRICAN & SOUTH AFRICAN
OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

24. AFRICAN JOURNALS ARCHIVE: FREE ACCESS TO JOURNALS WITH A FOCUS
IN SCIENCES, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
HTTP://WWW.AJARCHIVE.ORG

25. SOUTH AFRICAN OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
 The collection currently comprises 46 South
African journals Multidisciplinary collection
 Searched individually
 15 OA Journals are Accredited/Approved
Journals (DoE, ISI, IBSS)
 The copyright of each journal in this
collection resides with the publisher of the
journal.
 The journals are also available on SA
ePublications database
http://www.sabinet.co.za/?page=open-access-journals

26. http://www.sabinet.co.za/?page=open-access-journals

27. Academy of Science of South Africa –
ASSAf
The Scientific Electronic Library Online
(SciELO) SA is South Africa’s premier
open-access (free to access and free to
publish) searchable full-text journal
database in service of the South African
research community.
• The database covers a selected
collection of peer-reviewed South
African scholarly journals and forms
an integral part of the SciELO Brazil
project.
• SciELO SA is managed by the
Academy of Science of South Africa
(ASSAf), funded by the South African
Department of Science and
Technology and endorsed by the
South African Department of Higher
Education and Training (DHET). http://www.scielo.org.za

28. OPEN ACCESS
JOURNAL COLLECTIONS &
WEB RESOURCES

29. OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL COLLECTIONS & WEB RESOURCES

30. http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/

32. Source

33. http://www.doaj.org

34. http://www.biomedcentral.com/

35. http://www.chemistrycentral.com/

36. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc

37. http://bmjopen.bmj.com/

38. http://www.plos.org/

39. http://www.plos.org/about/open-access/howopenisit/

40. BASE: BIELEFELD ACADEMIC SEARCH ENGINE
ACADEMIC OPEN ACCESS WEB RESOURCES
http://www.base-search.net

41. GOLONKA RESOURCES
E-MATH FOR AFRICA; E-PHYSICS FOR AFRICA; E-CHEMISTRY FOR AFRICA
The main purpose is to promote
the use of Open Access journals
and other scientific resources,
as well as being a platform for
consortia building.
e-Chemistry for Africa: http://chemistry.golonka.se/
e-Physics for Africa: http://physics.golonka.se/
e-Math for Africa: http://math.golonka.org/

42. http://arxiv.org

43. http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596

44. INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS: HOT FROM THE PRESS
 IOP have adopted a more liberal Creative Commons
license (CC-BY 3.0) for future articles published on a gold
open access basis.
 This license allows others to distribute, re-mix, amend,
and build upon a piece of work as long as they credit the
original creation.
 The licenses grant rights to the users of the content but
do not replace the copyright, which remains with the
copyright holder.
 The change applies to articles being published on an
open access basis in all IOP-owned hybrid journals and
the gold open access titles Environmental Research
Letters and New Journal of Physics ......
(e-mail, 24/10/2012)

45. GOOGLE SCHOLAR (ACADEMIC ARTICLES)
(HTTP://SCHOLAR.GOOGLE.COM)

46. SOCIAL MEDIA & RESEARCH
Source
Social Media can help Researchers:
Promote their research; Connect with other
researchers & share resources

47. HOW SOCIAL MEDIA CAN HELP RESEARCHERS?
Making Research Publications available in an Open Access
Repository is not enough! (Kelly, 2012)
 Social media provides opportunities for the “connected
researchers” to engage more effectively with their peers and
raise the visibility of their research outputs which can help in
enhancing citations of their papers and implementation of
the ideas. Source
 The use of Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Social media sharing
tools such as Slideshare and research profiling services
such as LinkedIn, Academia.edu, Mendeley to develop
successful research collaborations
 Read the article “Open Access and Open Practices for the
Connected Researcher”, Bryan Kelly (2012)

49. http://academia.edu/

50. LIBRARIANS SUPPORT TO
RESEARCHERS
“Never Underestimate the
Importance of a librarian”
- Elsevier-

51. UJ SCIENCES LIBRARIAN SUPPORT
http://ujsciencelibrarian.pbworks.com/w/page/6193643/FrontPage

52. UJ SCIENCES OPEN ACCESS PORTAL
HTTP://UJSCIENCESLIBRARYNEWS.WORDPRESS.COM/OPEN-ACCESS-OA

53. http://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/PavlinkaKovatcheva

54. SCOOP.IT: SHARE IDEAS THAT MATTER
http://www.scoop.it/t/uj-sciences-librarian-open-access

55. PAPER.LI: BE A PUBLISHER
http://paper.li/ujlibscience/1347303251

56. OPEN ACCESS: INITIATIVES TO FOLLOW IN SA
 Open Access week, 22 – 28 October 2012
http://www.openaccessweek.org/
 Open Access Africa (hosted by BioMed
Central) - Cape Town, 4-5 November 2012
http://www.biomedcentral.com/developingcou
ntries/events/openaccessafrica
 Berlin 10 Open Access Conference,
Stellenbosch, 6-8 November 2012
http://www.berlin10.org/

57. PAVLINKA KOVATCHEVA
E-MAIL: PKOVATCHEVA@UJ.AC.ZA
UJ SCIENCES PORTAL: HTTP://UJSCIENCELIBRARIAN.PBWORKS.COM/FRONTPAGE
SLIDESHARE PRESENTATIONS:
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