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Self archiving: a primer

Self archiving: a primer. November 11, 2010 Andrea Kosavic, Digital Initiatives Librarian. What is self-archiving?. What is self-archiving?. To self-archive is to deposit a digital document in a publicly accessible institutional or subject-based repository.

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Self archiving: a primer

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  1. Self archiving: a primer November 11, 2010 Andrea Kosavic, Digital Initiatives Librarian

  2. What is self-archiving?

  3. What is self-archiving? • To self-archive is to deposit a digital document in a publicly accessible institutional or subject-based repository. • The digital document refers to research outputs, such as: • Peer reviewed articles • Grey literature, reports • Conference proceedings, etc.

  4. The purpose of self-archiving is to make research available open access.

  5. Open access offers the following benefits for research outputs: • Increased visibility • Increased usage • Increased impact (higher citations) • Better return on investment for public funding Open access benefits researchers, institutions, nations and society as a whole http://www.openoasis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=146&Itemid=308

  6. Self-archiving benefits authors • Early Advantage: Self-archiving preprints before publication hastens and increases citations (higher-quality articles benefit more: top 20% of articles receive 80% of citations) • Quality Advantage: Self-archiving postprints immediately upon publication hastens and increases citations (higher-quality articles benefit more) • Usage Advantage: Self-archiving increases downloads (higher-quality articles benefit more) This slide is an excerpt from: http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/harnad.html

  7. Open accessenables fairaccess to research for all. This is especially importantto researchers in developing countries who would otherwise not be able to afford the cost of access.

  8. There are two paths to open access: The gold route • Publishing in an open access journal, or paying a premium to ensure that your article is available open access (hybrid journals). The green route • Self-archiving your work in a repository. Both paths are equally effective and important. Guedon, J.-C. (2004). The "Green" and "Gold" Roads to Open Access: The Case for Mixing and Matching. Serials Review, 30(4), 315-328.

  9. What steps are involved in the self-archiving process?

  10. Self ArchivingStep 1 Know your publisher Look up your publisher’s policy on self-archiving on the Sherpa Romeo website: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

  11. Self ArchivingStep 2 Ask for permission to self-archive, if required The SPARC Canadian Author Addendum is a legal tool to help you ask permission: http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/author/author-e.html#addendum

  12. Self ArchivingStep 3 Deposit your article into a repository YorkSpace is York University’s institutional repository: http://www.yorku.ca/yorkspace Here is a link to the YorkSpace deposit toolkit: http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/Home/diy/yorkspace/

  13. York University Libraries can help you with the following: • Guiding you through the self-archiving process • Interpreting publisher policies • Interpreting and using author addenda • Creating an account and demonstrating how to use YorkSpace • Depositing your work in YorkSpace • Providing background information on developments in scholarly communicationshttp://scholcom.yorku.ca

  14. Thanks for your time.Questions?

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