Module 2: Health and Natural Sciences

Some disciplinary traits Sciences and Engineering: Multi-authorship Cancer & Nursing Studies : Communication and engagement with practitioners and policy-makers Snapshot of Publication outputs by discipline Snapshot of Research characteristics

Research Information Network Report (2009), Communicating Knowledge: How and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their finding, The Research Publication Landscape: An Overview The most important types of scholarly publication include:

Source: Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature: Situation Björk B-C, Welling P, Laakso M, Majlender P, Hedlund T, et al. PLoS ONE 5(6): e doi: /journal.pone (2010) OA availability (by discipline) An example of analyses of 2008 figures

Resources for finding Open Access Research in Natural and Health Sciences Open Access Repositories –Arxiv –PMC Open Access Journals –DOAJ –BioMed Central –PLoS Open Access Data –See further.

INSDC has been developed and maintained collaboratively for over 18 years between GenBank National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan of National Institute of Genetics Open Access Disciplinary Repositories: Data Sets Example I: INSDC

Open Access Disciplinary Repositories: Data Sets Example II: Pangaea Pangaea The information system PANGAEA is operated as an Open Access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research. The system guarantees long-term availability of its content through a commitment of the operating institutions Areas: Water, Sediment, Ice & Atmosphere

What can you do: Ask your publisher for Open Access options Publish in an Open Access journal or with an Open Access Book publisher Encourage your editorial board to support OA Participate in an editorial board of an OA journal Negotiate your right to self-archive with your publisher Deposit your articles or data in a subject or institutional repository Participate in Open Access projects when your library invites you to Grant receipients: check you funder’s policies

What can you do? Publish in an Open Access journal or with an Open Access Book publisher Encourage your editorial board to support OA Participate in an editorial board of an OA journal Negotiate your right to self- archive with your publisher Grant receipients: check you funder’s policies Deposit your articles or data in a subject or institutional repository Participate in Open Access projects when your library invites you to Ask your publisher for Open Access options

Open up, get practical! Image from: Palepu –Giustini – BCLA Conference 2008 Remember it takes only 10 minutes per paper to self-archive!