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Exploring Open Access & Health Research

Join us on Feb 1, 2011, as we delve into the fundamentals of Open Access, changing funder expectations, PubMed Central Canada, and more at the Health Sciences Library. Discover why OA matters and how to navigate journal permissions. Learn about local author and researcher support. Be part of the discussion!

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Exploring Open Access & Health Research

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  1. Open access & health research Presented by Shannon Gordon @ the Health Sciences Library February 1, 2011

  2. We’ll explore • The basics of OA • Changing expectations of research funders • Journal permissions in a nutshell • Demystifying PubMed Central Canada • Local support for authors & researchers

  3. Defining open access (OA) “Open access is the principle that research should be accessible online, for free, immediatelyafter publication.” (CARL & SPARC, p.3) “If an article is ‘Open Access’ it means that it can be freely accessed by anyone in the world using an internet connection.” (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/guidance/authors.html#whatoa)

  4. Why OA is important

  5. What exists? • ~ 6000 peer-reviewed titles

  6. 600+ Health Sciences OA titles

  7. The numbers • The U.S. publishes the most OA titles: 1100+ • Canada is in 7th place with 179

  8. Consider this

  9. If you receive research funding • Be aware of new & changing research funder policies • ~ 20 policies in Canada, such as:

  10. CIHR Policy on Access to Research Outputs • Launched Jan 1/08 • Applies to whole or partial CIHR funding • Within 6 months of publication, make research output available via:

  11. A useful tool • Research funders’ open access policies & requirements

  12. PubMed Central Canada (PMCC) • CIHR/CISTI/NRC collaboration • Exists for CIHR funded research output • Deposited articles are automatically put in PubMed Central & PubMed Central UK • PubMed contains all PubMed Central articles

  13. Demystifying PMCC

  14. Journal permissions

  15. Where can I archive my articles? • Publishing in an OA journal is just one option • Consider depositing work in an OA repository • 1800+ repositories worldwide • ~ 40 in the Health Sciences

  16. OA support from the library

  17. Be Google-able • Deposit pre/post-prints, finished data sets, conference papers, presentations & reports

  18. Subject specific • Joint initiative with the Faculty of Medicine • Deposit published output

  19. Library as OA publisher

  20. Summing up • OA fundamentals • Research funders & journal permission policies • PubMed Central Canada has hopefully been demystified! • Awareness of local open access support Questions?

  21. Recommended Readings • Canadian Association of Research Libraries. (2005). CARL institutional repository program. Retrieved from http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/institutional_repositories/institutional _repositories-e.html. • Harnad, S. (February 2010). The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies. The Open Citation Project – Reference linking and citation analysis for open archives. Retrieved from http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html. • Scholarly Publishing Roundtable. (2010). Report and recommendations from the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable. Retrieved from http://www.aau.edu/policy/scholarly_publishing_roundtable.aspx?id=6894. • Shearer, K. A review of emerging models in Canadian academic publishing. Retrieved March 15, 2010, from https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/24008.

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