Oliver Bridle RSL Amanda Burls Primary Care Ruth Birth Law Library Sally Rumsey Bodleian Bodley’s “Republic of [Open] Letters” W. Horstmann, A. Ptak- Danchak, N. Jefferies, S. Rumsey

From the BOAI declaration 2002 “kind of free and unrestricted online we call open access - economically feasible - extraordinary power(for reader)to find and make use of relevant Literature - it gives authors and their works vast andvast and measurablemeasurable new visibility, readership, and impact. -visibilityreadershipimpact we call on all interested institutions and individuals to help open up access to the rest of this literature and remove the barriers, especially the price barriers, that stand in the way. “ BOAI Declaration 2002

Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder... OA is entirely compatible with peer review, and all the major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist on its importance... OA literature is not free to produce, even if it is less expensive to produce than conventionally published literature. The question is not whether scholarly literature can be made costless, but whether there are better ways to pay the bills than by charging readers and creating access barriers. Business models for paying the bills depend on how OA is delivered. Peter Suber http://

 2001 Budapest Open Access Initiative earlier movement - Free access to case laws & legislation since 1992  Global movement across all subjects  Increase number of OA journals and OA repositories  2012 Finch Report  £10 m from UK Government for OA to publicly funded research  Charge for publishing met by researchers’ grants

 Is it open access ?  How open is it?  What’s my research grant dictate?  Is there enough money in my grant to publish my work?

 What’s the publisher’s OA policy? Gold OA, Green OA, Hybrid Journals Article Processing Charges APC, CC-BY Licence, CC-BY NC Licence

Gold OA Green OA Hybrid Journals APC CC-BY Licence CC-BY NC Licence Distribution Immediate 6 months Delay Author Copyrights Full retention Some or none Copyright Permissions CC-BY Licence CC-BY NC Licence Self-ArchivingVersion Any version Final peer-reviewed manuscript repository whoWhenWhereCost APC Green /hybrid OA journals Machine Readability policy

Y Generation JISC Report Oliver Bridle Copyright is an automatic right and arises whenever an individual or company creates a work. Ethical Aspects of Open Access in Health Research Amanda Burls Access to Knowledge Probiotic Yoghurt Trial completed 2005 Access to the results January 2010 Inconclusive results – Bias in publishing negative results

Theses, reports, final peer-reviewed version DOI in record with link to publisher’s version Connected to Symplectic Creation of a Databank at Oxford in partnership with Bodleian Libraries - information sharing through system interconnectivity, DOIs assignments, connection between Author’ IDs

 Compliance with the grant’s OA policy SHERPA JULIET – research funding policies Publisher’s website  Requirement for publishing in O/A journals SHERPA ROMEO - publishers’ policies  Directory of Open Access Journals  How Open Is it? Guide -access/howopenisit/

 “The bottom line is very simple: we want the science we fund to have the maximum impact, and it can only have the maximum impact if it has the maximum distribution. It’s as simple as that … Using the internet, we can actually make scientific research accessible – or available at any rate – to anyone who has an internet connection.”  Sir Mark Walport Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government 2012

A few points of discussion: Authors’ choice -Funder’s Open Access policies enforcement Cost of Gold route - 1 publication route for all journals Societies’ publications Managing publication within research funding Role of department/university in payment processing & covering fees for non funded researchers Libraries’ journal subscription budget The debate continues… And Open Access Week Oxford Wikipedia Editathon: Women in Science RSL Training Room TODAY 14:00-17:00