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Open Access

Open Access. What does it mean? Open access (OA) means immediate, free and unrestricted online access to digital scholarly material [1] , primarily peer-reviewed research articles in scholarly journals. OA was made possible by the advent of the Internet . (Wikipedia) Why should you care?

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Open Access

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  1. Open Access What does it mean? Open access (OA) means immediate, free and unrestricted online access to digital scholarly material[1], primarily peer-reviewedresearch articles in scholarly journals. OA was made possible by the advent of the Internet. (Wikipedia) Why should you care? could change the publishing landscape ESO will change its workshop proceedings to open access maintain quality of journals (reviewing system) financing of journals may change (“author-pay”) guarantee future retrieval of and access to published literature (archive)

  2. Open Access Political argument: public pays three times for refereed publications: authors (salaries) referees (‘salaries’) libraries (subscriptions) Changes to peer reviewing? quality of journals depends on good refereeing (“astro-ph vs. A&A”) Maintaining the publishing quality editing of articles (copy-editing, language editing) uniform appearance (formatting) ensure preservation the publications (archive)

  3. EU has heard about this Extensive document, which was discussed in European fora (ERC, EURAB, EIROForum, etc.) Request that publicly financed research is openly available (enforce vs. encourage) http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/pdf/scientific-publication-study_en.pdf

  4. Some definitions Self-archiving make papers freely accessible to everybodyat the same time as the publication in the journal e.g. through astro-ph, own web pages Free Access some journals make their contents freely available after some period A&A, MNRAS after 3 years ApJ, ApJL, AJ, PASP after two years

  5. Open Access in Astronomy Most of the astronomical literature is through ‘learned societies,’ i.e. not-for-profit organisations A&A ESO/A&A Board MNRAS Royal Astronomical Society ApJ,AJ American Astronomical Society PASP Astronomical Society of the Pacific astro-ph widely accepted

  6. Open Access in Astronomy Open Access journals http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=subject&cpid=56 A sampler Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics (published by the Indian Academy of Sciences) Information Bulletin of Variable Stars (IBVS; Konkoly Observatory) Living Reviews in Relativity (Max Planck Institute for Gravitationsphysik, Potsdam)

  7. Open Access and Astronomy Major journals are ‘publicly controlled’ all journals are electronically available ADS is a brilliant search engine astro-ph major open archive Individual home pages all major journals allow the authors to present a copy of their paper on their personal home page formatting has to be different! (style files) Remaining problem: archiving

  8. Open Access and ESO ESO Messenger Plan to move the ESO Workshop Series to Open Access Springer asks for 3000€ perarticle for Open Access Investigate whether we can host astro-ph Create our own open access repository for papers based on ESO data?

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