Open Access Journals - theired

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THEIRED ORGANISATION PRESENTATION

• OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

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WHAT IS OPEN ACCESS

• Open access publications are freely and
  permanently available online to anyone with an
  internet connection.
• Unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction
  in any medium is permitted, provided the
  author/editor is properly attributed.
• Open access has gained tremendous support from
  both authors, who appreciate the increased
  visibility of their work, as well as science
  institutions and funders, who value the societal
  impact of freely available research results

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WHAT IS OPEN ACCESS (CONTD.)

• Anyone who wants to read the articles must pay to
  access them.
• Anyone who wants to use the articles in any way
  must obtain permission from the publisher and is
  often required to pay an additional fee.
• Most publishers own the rights to the articles in
  their journals.

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WHY OPEN ACCESS

• Open access journals and books operate under a
  reversed business model to the traditional
  subscription-based publishing model.
• Instead of charging users a fee to read the
  content, they charge an open access fee at the
  beginning of the publication process and this
  enables all the content to be made freely
  available.
• The author is responsible for making or arranging
  the payment.

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WHY OPEN ACCESS (CONTD.)

• The Internet gives us the opportunity to bring
  this crucial information to a worldwide audience
  at virtually no marginal cost, and allows us to
  use it in new, innovative ways.
• This has resulted in a call for new framework to
  allow research results to be more easily accessed
  and used the call for Open Access.

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HOW DOES OPEN ACCESS WORK

• The internet allows us to distribute knowledge
  more widely, more efficiency and at a lower cost
  than was previously possible.
• However, publishing still has costs that need to
  be covered such as proof reading, copyediting,
  digital presentation and preservation, promotion
  and dissemination of your work.
• With Open Access, authors (or their institutions
  or funders) pay an Article Processing Charge to
  cover these costs, ensuring their work is
  properly evaluated for quality and made easy to
  find, download and read.

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OPEN ACCESS MECHANISMS

• Open Access Publishing
• Digital Repositories
• Effectively Managed Author Rights
• Local, National and International Open Access
  Policies

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OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING

• Authors can choose to publish their research
  articles in a growing number of journals that
  meet the full definition of Open Access. Articles
  are free to all interested readers, and the
  publishers place no financial or copyright
  barriers between the readers and the article.

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DIGITAL REPOSITORIES

• Authors can choose to deposit their research
  articles in digital archives (often called
  Digital Repositories or Institutional
  Repositories) which conform to the standards of
  the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), and enable
  readers to freely access and fully reuse the
  article text.

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EFFECTIVELY MANAGED AUTHOR RIGHTS

• As the authors of a research paper, you have
  ability to ensure that your article can be
  accessed and used by the widest possible
  audience.

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LOCAL, NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL POLICIES

• Institutions that support research, from
  public and private research funders to higher
  education institutions, can implement effective
  policies that that support making Open Access to
  scholarly research articles the default mode for
  their researchers.

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