Open Access Publishing

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Huddersfield Open Access Publishing

This paper presents the findings of the Huddersfield Open Access Publishing Project, a JISC funded project to develop a low cost, sustainable Open Access (OA) journal publishing platform using EPrints Institutional Repository software

Authors and open access publishing

Surveys were carried out to learn more about authors and open access publishing. Awareness of open access journals among those who had not published in them was quite high; awareness of "self-archiving" wasless. For open access journal authors the most important reason for publishing in that way was the principle of free access; their main concerns were grants and impact. Authors who had not published in an open access journal attributed that to unfamiliarity with such journals. Forty per cent of authors have self-archived their traditional journal articles and almost twice as many say they would do so if required to

Open Access Publishing: A Literature Review

Within the context of the Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy (CREATe) research scope, this literature review investigates the current trends, advantages, disadvantages, problems and solutions, opportunities and barriers in Open Access Publishing (OAP), and in particular Open Access (OA) academic publishing. This study is intended to scope and evaluate current theory and practice concerning models for OAP and engage with intellectual, legal and economic perspectives on OAP. It is also aimed at mapping the field of academic publishing in the UK and abroad, drawing specifically upon the experiences of CREATe industry partners as well as other initiatives such as SSRN, open source software, and Creative Commons. As a final critical goal, this scoping study will identify any meaningful gaps in the relevant literature with a view to developing further research questions. The results of this scoping exercise will then be presented to relevant industry and academic partners at a workshop intended to assist in further developing the critical research questions pertinent to OAP

Open Access: Science Publishing as Science Publishing Should Be

Full and unimpeded access (Open Access) to science literature is needed. It is not provided by the traditional subscription-based publishing model. Instead of criticizing Open Access and attacking its proponents, traditional publishers should make imaginative and innovative efforts to build their businesses around the needs of their customers rather than around their desire to continue a model that may be lucrative, but that is no longer satisfactory to science or society

Open Access Publishing

Im Rahmen des Open-Science-Workshops des Sonderforschungsbereiches Hybrid Societies am 10. Februar 2022, stellte das Open Science Team der Universitätsbibliothek umfangreiche Services zum Open-Access-Publizieren vor. Dazu gehören: 1. Der Aufbau und Betrieb von Infrastrukturen zur Veröffentlichung auf dem Goldenen und Grünen Weg des Open Access 2. Die Bereitstellung finanzieller Mittel zur Unterstützung bei der Publikation von Artikeln und Monographien - in 2022 können erstmals Open-Access-Monographien über den Publikationsfonds gefördert werden. 3. Durchführung von Beratungen, Schulungen und Workshops - der Schwerpunkt liegt in der Beratung der Wissenschaffenden, u.a. zur Qualität von Publikationsangeboten. 4. Netzwerken innerhalb und außerhalb der TU Chemnitz im Bereich Open Science. Alle Dienstleistungen richten sich insbesondere auch an Nachwuchswissenschaftler und Wissenschaftlerinnen.During the Open Science Workshop of the Collaborative Research Centre Hybrid Societies on 10 February 2022, the Open Science Team of the University Library presented comprehensive services for Open Access publishing. These include: 1. the establishment and operation of infrastructures for publishing on the Golden and Green Paths of Open Access. 2. the provision of financial resources to support the publication of articles and monographs - in 2022, OA monographs can be supported for the first time via the publication fund. 3. carrying out consultations, training and workshops - the focus is on advising knowledge workers, among other things on the quality of publication offerings. 4. networking within and outside the TU Chemnitz in the area of Open Science. All services are also aimed in particular at young researchers and scientists

First results of the SOAP project. Open access publishing in 2010

The SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing) project has compiled data on the present offer for open access publishing in online peer-reviewed journals. Starting from the Directory of Open Access Journals, several sources of data are considered, including inspection of journal web site and direct inquiries within the publishing industry. Several results are derived and discussed, together with their correlations: the number of open access journals and articles; their subject area; the starting date of open access journals; the size and business models of open access publishers; the licensing models; the presence of an impact factor; the uptake of hybrid open access.Comment: Submitted to PLoS ON

Huddersfield Open Access Publishing (HOAP) Project

The JISC funded Huddersfield Open Access Publishing (HOAP) Project aimed to develop a low cost sustainable Open Access (OA) journal publishing platform using EPrints Institutional Repository software. This poster will report on the development of the HOAP platform and discuss the outcomes of the project. The platform was developed to convert the peer reviewed, Teaching in Lifelong Learning journal, from its existing print subscription model to an OA e-journal. A specific front end was created for the journal, with content being archived in the University Repository. As part of this work, there has been a re-write of the notes for contributors section and a move from copyright transfer to a licence to publish model. HOAP is now a member of CrossRef and the Committee on Publishing Ethics, the journal has also been submitted to the Directory of Open Access Journals. The platform will also be used to launch a new title, Huddersfield Research Review during 2012. This title will showcase the most significant research at the University of Huddersfield by including interviews with the authors of the most cited and/or downloaded articles in the Repository together with an editorial overview by a senior researcher who will locate Huddersfield research within the broader national and international literature in the relevant fields and disciplines. An audit of the University’s journals resulted in the addition of another title during the project and also the potential for five others to be hosted, including two new peer-reviewed OA titles in 2012. In order to disseminate its output, the project developed a toolkit for other institutions, including new workflows, a licence to publish template and guidelines for new title proposals. The project hopes the toolkit will inspire other institutions to investigate OA journal publishing. A major output of HOAP for Huddersfield has been a fundamental change in the understanding of the utility of Institutional Repositories in which ‘innovation’ and ‘impact’ displace ‘management’ and ‘preservation” as the primary functions. The HOAP platform provides not only an interface through which both original and archived peer-reviewed content can be delivered in a sustainable OA format but also a means of delivering specialist content to specific academic audiences through a traditional journal front-end. The poster will share the recommendations for further developments at Huddersfield and implications for the wider community

Quantum Game Theory and Open Access Publishing

The digital revolution of the information age and in particular the sweeping changes of scientific communication brought about by computing and novel communication technology, potentiate global, high grade scientific information for free. The arXiv for example is the leading scientific communication platform, mainly for mathematics and physics, where everyone in the world has free access on. While in some scientific disciplines the open access way is successfully realized, other disciplines (e.g. humanities and social sciences) dwell on the traditional path, even though many scientists belonging to these communities approve the open access principle. In this paper we try to explain these different publication patterns by using a game theoretical approach. Based on the assumption, that the main goal of scientists is the maximization of their reputation, we model different possible game settings, namely a zero sum game, the prisoners' dilemma case and a version of the stag hunt game, that show the dilemma of scientists belonging to ''non-open access communities''. From an individual perspective, they have no incentive to deviate from the Nash Equilibrium of traditional publishing. By extending the model using the quantum game theory approach it can be shown, that if the strength of entanglement exceeds a certain value, the scientists will overcome the dilemma and terminate to publish only traditionally in all three settings.Comment: 11 pages, 16 figure

Approaches to Open Access in Scientific Publishing

Approaches to scientific journal publishing that provide free access to all readers are challenging the standard subscription-based model. But in domains that have a well-functioning system of publicly accessible preprint repositories like arXiv, Open Access is already effectively available. In physics, such repositories have long coexisted constructively with refereed, subscription based journals. Trying to replace this by a system based on journals whose revenue is derived primarily from fees charged to authors is unlikely to provide a better guarantee of Open Access, and may be in conflict with the maintenance of high quality standards.Comment: 5 pages. Detailed version of an article to appear in Physics World, in an abbreviated form, under the title "Free For All