Open Access & Researcher Support UWTSD Partnership Librarians Conference 5 th May 2016

Research Councils UK (RCUK) defines open access as “Unrestricted, on-line access to peer reviewed and published research papers”. Open Access benefits everyone, not just academics

RCUK state that a user must be able to do the following free of any access charge Read published papers in an electronic format Search for and re-use the content of published papers both manually and using automated tools (such as those for text and data mining) provided that any such re-use is subject to full and proper attribution and does not infringe any copyrights to third-party material included in the paper.

Why Open Access The ethical argument that knowledge is a public good that should be freely available to all, especially if the research has been paid for out of public funds. The financial argument that journals are too expensive and libraries can no longer afford to purchase a sufficient range of titles (this is known as “the serials crisis). The practical argument that new knowledge and large-scale data-sets are developing so rapidly that only search engines can keep track of them, and that articles and data-sets therefore need to be openly available so that they can be mined for the meta-analyses which are the only way for scientists to keep track of knowledge and advance it constructively. UWTSDTo fulfil its aim of increasing substantially the propotion of research that is made available by open Access (OA) in the UK, the four UK higher education funding bodies have introduced a requirement that outputs submitted to the post 2014 REF by made available in an open-access from from April 2016

Benefits for Students A complete education If the lecturers can’t read it, they can’t teach it Can’t get past the abstract information Smaller schools/institutions at a disadvantage Research beyond the degree: students' access to journals expires along with their library card at graduation Return on Investment Exercising our right to research

Benefits for Researcher Better visibility and higher impact for your scholarship Avoiding duplication Research is useless if it’s not shared Text mining

Benefits for Libraries Combats rapid price escalations in scholarly journal subscription rates So why am I talking about it today? Our newly launched repository How all libraries can benefit from the Open Access Movement

Two New Open Access Repositories Research Publications Research Data

Web Resources and Support Open Access Publishing Open Access Research Data data-management/

Two Main Types of Access Gold Access means that the researcher has to pay an (APC) to ensure the paper is made freely available upon publication Green Access is where the author usually deposits an unformatted version of the paper in a university repository without incurring a publisher's charge.

What does this mean for us?

Almost no student begins their studies from the library web page OCLC, 2010, Perceptions of Libraries: Context and Community oclc/reports/2010perceptions/20 10perceptions_all.pdf

Online Library Resources vices-for-partner-students/ vices-for-partner-students/

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