IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency International Nuclear Information System (INIS) Use of Open Access Publications 13th Joint INIS/ETDE Technical Committee Meeting October 2011, Vienna, Austria Taghrid ATIEH Leader, Capacity Building & Liaison Group INIS & NKM Section Department of Nuclear Energy
IAEA Use of Open Access Publications 13 th INIS/ETDE Joint Technical Committee Meeting, Friday, 16 October Open Access (OA) Success Story How to benefit
IAEA Use of Open Access Publications 13 th INIS/ETDE Joint Technical Committee Meeting, Friday, 16 October is a free, immediate, permanent online access to the full text of research articles for anyone, web wide. What is Open Access (OA): Open-access 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. Peter Suber
IAEA Use of Open Access Publications 13 th INIS/ETDE Joint Technical Committee Meeting, Friday, 16 October There are two roads to OA: (1)the "golden road" of OA journal-publishing, where journals provide OA to their articlesOA journal-publishing (2)the "green road" of OA self-archiving, where authors provide OA to their own published articles, by making their own eprints free for allOA self-archivingeprints
IAEA Use of Open Access Publications 13 th INIS/ETDE Joint Technical Committee Meeting, Friday, 16 October Public Library of Science (PLoS) Some open access initiatives: Open Access Journals Search Engine (OAJSE) DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals BioMed Central – The Open Access Publisher Hindawi Publishing Corporation
IAEA Use of Open Access Publications 13 th INIS/ETDE Joint Technical Committee Meeting, Friday, 16 October UNESCO Global Open Access Portal (GOAP): To present the state of OA around the world Is supposed to be the first destination for users seeking information on OA
IAEA Use of Open Access Publications 13 th INIS/ETDE Joint Technical Committee Meeting, Friday, 16 October Advantages of using OA: Increase coverage Improve timeliness Direct access to full text
IAEA Use of Open Access Publications 13 th INIS/ETDE Joint Technical Committee Meeting, Friday, 16 October National INIS centre of Egypt: 750 input from Open Access publications in 2010 Over 90% of total input Success Story
IAEA Use of Open Access Publications 13 th INIS/ETDE Joint Technical Committee Meeting, Friday, 16 October Questions: 2. How INIS should use / benefit from OA? 1.What is your experience with OA?
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