Open Access Week 2014:
What You Need to Know
OSCP Munch/Lunch & Learn #16, October 2014
John Barnett, Scholarly Communications Librarian
CC BY 3.0
What’s New in OA 2014?
On the local, national, and international scenes
Internationally speaking
• World Health Organization (WHO) commits to Open Access by
joining Europe PubMed Central (Wellcome Trust, 1 May 2014)
• WHO announces Open Access Policy (1 July 2014)
• Articles authored or co-authored by WHO staff will have to be published in
• OA journals or hybrid OA journals under Creative Commons 3.0
intergovernmental organization (IGO) license
• Subscription journals allowing deposit of accepted author manuscript in Europe
PubMed Central w/i 12 months
• Articles produced by recipients of WHO funding will have to be published in
• OA journals or hybrid OA journals under standard CC license terms
• Subscription journals allowing deposit of articles in Europe PMC w/i 12 mos
Internationally speaking: The UK
• Ongoing debates re: Research Councils UK (RCUK) OA policy
• Favors gold open access but leaves final choice to authors (“confusing”)
• Gold OA is considered cheaper in the long run but may be expensive during
transition away from established subscription models
• Independent review of implementation announced
• Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) announcement
• Only papers placed in IRs will be considered eligible for the next Research
Excellence Framework (REF) (periodic assessment of the outputs of UK
university depts.)
• Proposes mandated deposit on acceptance, rather than deposit on publication
Internationally speaking: Canada
• Draft Tri-Agency OA policy for publicly funded research
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
• CIHR was the 1st North American public research funder to have an OA
mandate
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
• Efforts under way to extend this to all federally funded
research
• Option 1: Submit manuscripts to journals offering immediate OA, or
within 12 months
• Option 2: Archive final peer-reviewed full-text manuscripts in a digital
archive where it will be freely accessible within 12 months
Internationally speaking: Latin America
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Argentina: OA law passed Argentina’s Senate in November 2013
Brazil: National draft policy in place (2011-)
Mexico: National draft policy in place (2013-)
Peru: Law passed in 2013
At the national level: Energy
• U.S. Dept. of Energy unveils plan to increase public access to
research it finances (CHE, 4 August 2014)
• Prompted by White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
(OSTP) memorandum
• Energy 1st agency to release its public access plan
• Web-based portal: Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science
(PAGES)
• Initial rollout: 6,500 papers and abstracts only for some (Science
Insider, 4 August 2014)
SPARC response
• Good but . . . “Falls short in some key areas” (Heather Joseph, SPARC)
• Reuse rights not addressed clearly
• Publishers retain copyright to their versions of the research
• Metadata is in public domain
• No centralized system for searching
• No searchable index of the full text of articles
• Instead, distributed full-text access
• Dark archive of manuscripts to be used if links become broken or full-text access is
interrupted
• No plans to provide ways for researchers to analyze the entirety of research
• Harder to do computational analysis, text or data mining—”the kind of innovative
uses the White House directive was designed to encourage”
Publisher response
• “Generally supportive of the DOE plan” (CHE, 4 August 2014)
• However, the Association of American Publishers doesn’t like the
12-month embargo the plan provides
• “The ‘half-life’ of published research varies across disciplines, which is an
argument against blanket embargo periods”
• “Many publishers dislike PubMed Central—they say it infringes on
journal copyright and diverts readers from their websites, cutting
into advertising revenues” (Science Insider, 4 August 2014)
• White House order tried to address this concern
At the national level: Education
• U.S. Dept. of Education releases “Secretary’s Proposed
Supplemental Priorities and Definitions for Discretionary Grant
Programs” (24 June 2014)
• New definition for Open Educational Resource (OER)
• Understanding that OER can be used to improve and enhance
department wide priorities
• Proposed Priority #11: Leveraging Technology to Support
Instructional Practice and Professional Development
SPARC response
• Applauded proposal; cited additional proposed priorities that OER
could help address
• Proposed Priority #3: Enabling the Creation of Personalized Learning
Environments
• Proposed Priority #4: Targeting and Differentiating Material Specifically for
High-Need Students
• Proposed Priority #5: Increasing Postsecondary Access, Affordability, and
Completion
• Proposed Priority #7: Promoting Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics Education
At the National Level: Congress
• HR 4186, Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and
Technology (FIRST) Act
• Language amended to match that of HR 3157, Public Access to
Public Science Act (May 2014)
• Embargo period of 12 months, not 24
• Allows for embargo to be modified by a maximum of 6 months if the
stakeholders can prove “substantial and unique harm”
• Requires agencies to submit a report to Congress w/i 90 days detailing their
public access policy; implementation w/i 1 year
At the state level: California
California Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research Legislation
(AB 609) signed into law on 29 September 2014
• Requires researchers receiving state-funded grant from the CA Dept. of
Public Health to
• Submit an electronic copy of articles resulting from that grant and accepted for
publication to a publicly accessible online database
• Or, if needing to be submitted to another OA repository, researchers can supply
the link to the state agency and the CA State Library
• Within 12 months of publication
At the state level: Illinois
• Illinois Open Access to Articles Act (SB 1900)
• Passed both chambers of the IL legislature
• Awaiting governor’s signature
• Requires that
• Illinois state universities and colleges develop an “open access to research
articles policy” within 1 year of the bill’s passage
• Direct faculty to make freely available to the public an electronic version of
the author’s final manuscript of original research (deposit on acceptance)
• Author grants to public an irrevocable, worldwide copyright license to use
these manuscripts
At the state level: New York
• New York Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research Legislation
(A180-2013 and S4050-2013)
• Introduced into NY State Assembly in 2013
• Bill currently under consideration; “no further action expected until the
start of the 2014 legislative session
• So what’s the current status of this legislation?
Crickets . . .
OA and the OSCP
An update on Open Access activities by the
ULS Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing
At Pitt: Journal publishing
• New journals
• Anthropology & Aging (website live: anthro-age.pitt.edu)
• Hungarian Cultural Studies (back issues loaded: ahea.net/ahea.pitt.edu)
• New issues
• 45 issues published from October 2013 to October 2014
• Some journal editors even won awards . . .
At Pitt: OA author fee fund
• Activity for July 2012-June 2014
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Articles approved and reimbursed to date: 121
Number of unique submitting authors: 113
Number of unique departments: 61
Number of unique journals: 75
Expenditures: $51,350 (FY 2013); $35,724 (FY 2014)
• Includes Hindawi institutional membership and BioMed Central
deposit account
At Pitt: D-Scholarship
• New staff
• John Fudrow, Repository Manager
• Spencer Goodwin, consultant on linked data, OAI harvesting
• Nearly 15,000 records to date; 2,196 in the last year, including 699 ETDs
• Books: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/21148/
• Data: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/20650/
• Improved metrics from PlumX: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/22403/
• In development
• New version of EPrints software
• Site redesign
At Pitt: Outreach and education
• OA LibGuide completed - pitt.libguides.com/openaccess
• Updated copyright/IP pages on the OSCP website –
www.library.pitt.edu/oscp/intellectual-property
• Outreach
• Approximately 30 information sessions (ULS, Pitt, regional, state, national,
international)
• New OSCP services brochure
• In development
• LibGuides on OER and Copyright/IP
• Revamped altmetrics webpages
• OA journals and quality webpages
OA Week 2014 events—for ULS staff
• October 14: Today’s Munch & Learn (our 16th)
• October 22, 11 am to 12 noon: How to Talk with Faculty about
Open Access
• Featuring Erin McKiernan, neuroscientist and advocate for Open Access,
Open Science, and Open Data
• Amy Knapp Room and via Lync
• You’re welcome to invite colleagues from other institutions
• Refreshments served
OA Week 2014—Historic Pittsburgh Fair
• Meet the partners and learn about future plans for this Open
Educational Resource
• Guest speakers
• Steve Mellon, writer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• Angelique Bamberg, adj. professor of history of art and architecture, Pitt
• Discussions and demonstrations on local history research
• October 21, 1 to 5 pm: Historic Pittsburgh Fair
• University Club, Ballroom B
OA Week 2014—Culture Change in Academia
• . . . Making sharing the new norm
• Public presentation by Erin McKiernan
• Featuring short presentations and discussions by Pitt faculty
panelists
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Brian Beaton, Information Sciences
Gordon Mitchell, Communications
Lara Putnam, History
Jackie Smith, Sociology
• Date: October 22, 3 to 4:30 pm
• Location: University Club, Ballroom A (Note! Room change!)
OA Week 2014—The Challenge of Openness
• . . . And Transparency in Scholarly Communication
• Panel presentation by representatives from both traditional and
OA publishing interests
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Maryann Martone, Force11
Peter Binfield, PeerJ
Rachel Burley, John Wiley
Jennifer Lin, PLoS
• Joint program with Carnegie Mellon University Libraries
• Date: October 29, 4:30 to 6 pm
• Location: 6115 Gates Hillman, CMU
How you can help
• Send individual invitations to faculty, students, and staff you know
• At Pitt or outside of Pitt, all are welcome
• Interactive: Information, practical advice, discussion,
conversation, ideas
• Refreshments and new OSCP swag available!
• You’re not only supporting the OSCP, you’re supporting the ULS
• You gain cachet for being au courant (and other positive French
phrases)
How can we help you?
Questions and answers about Open Access
and scholarly communication and publishing
Question: D-Scholarship versus . . .
• Why should I deposit my works in D-Scholarship as opposed to
Academia.edu or ReseachGate?
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Preservation
Who’s doing what with your information?
Pitt-centered scholarship
Copyright guidance
Publishers allow deposits into an IR, not so much into other, commercial
repositories
• The deposit process is about to get much easier with Symplectic
Elements
Question: Altmetrics
• What’s the status of PlumX? Can faculty still participate?
• Yes, faculty can still have profiles created in PlumX—just ask OSCP
to help
• Waiting for PlumX to adopt single-sign-on technology
• Will allow researchers to create/manage their own profiles
• Metrics available in D-Scholarship, e-journals
• Now includes EBSCO statistics
• Better visualizations
Question: OA journals
• How can you tell that an OA journal is of high quality?
• A better question: How can you tell that any scholarly journal is of
high quality?
• Editorial board and editorial staff
• Quality, relevance, and identification
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Ethical standards
Peer review (and a clearly stated peer review process)
Quality of content, copyediting, layout
Quality of website and clear contact information
Long-term preservation policy
Question: Research data
• What’s Pitt doing about research data? How is the ULS helping
researchers with data needs?
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Digital Scholarship group working on a web presence for RDM
Strategic options under discussion for FY 16
D-Scholarship can handle small, “fixed” datasets
Larger sets, big data, data that are active, may need other solutions
Question: ORCID
• Hey, what’s up with ORCID?
• Pitt is now an institutional member of ORCID
• Encourage registration now
• Faculty members can register now but should use their Pitt e-mail address
for accurate linking
• Work groups forming
• Communication about ORCID ID and workflow
• Registration workflow (individual, institutional)
Question: Bibliometrics
• What’s the current status of those bibliometrics/citation tools we
trialed in the summer?
Your questions & answers
• What questions do you receive about Open Access? About
researcher metrics? About scholarly communication and
publishing?
OA Week is fast approaching!
(But, honestly, it’s not that scary)
Thank you!
• John Barnett
• Scholarly Communications
Librarian
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University Library System
University of Pittsburgh
oscp@mail.pitt.edu
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SPARC. (2014). National policies. Retrieved from http://www.sparc.arl.org/advocacy/national
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SPARC. (2014). State policies. Retrieved from http://www.sparc.arl.org/advocacy/state
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