1. BSU’s research outputs and the Open Access (OA) landscape in the UK Becky Atkins Research Publications Librarian Library & Learning Services r.atkins@bathspa.ac.uk researchspace@bathspa.ac.uk TEL: 01225 876615

2. How the two things tie together… For example:- A BSU academic wants the whole world to read his article on jazz music but the journal isn’t giving the article away for free… A payment needed each time to download the final version of the article straight from the publisher

3. … with the help of repositories But the publisher DOES allow the earlier ‘postprint’ version of the article to be self-archived by the author on his university’s repository and made free-to-read for all…

4. OA means an increased readership for university-produced research outputs ‘Open access’ = unrestricted online access to scholarly research

5. GOLD - The "golden road" of OA journal publishing, where journals provide OA to their articles (either by charging the author-institution to make specific articles available through OA or by operating as a fully OA journal) GREEN - The "green road" of OA self-archiving, where authors provide OA to their own articles by making a version of their work accessible through an alternative system, eg. their institutional repository Two ways to make research outputs OA http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/

6. OPTION ONE Publish in a ‘hybrid’ journal with the University paying an Article Processing Charge (APC) so that your particular article can be made OA even if others from that journal are not. APCs can cost between £700-£2,00 per article and ‘double-dipping’ can occur. OPTION TWO Publish in a fully OA journal, some of which will not charge for making your article free-to-read themselves (ie. available to anyone from their website immediately on publication). DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS Go the GOLD route – via a journal

7.  Publish in a ‘closed access’ journal and provide an OA version of your work in a repository via self-archiving  Many publishers allow a postprint to be self-archived by the author (sometimes with an embargo attached)  SHERPA/RoMEO shows publisher policies towards OASHERPA/RoMEO Go the GREEN route – publish AND self-archive

8. HEFCE’s policy on open access in the post-2014 REF Available online at:- http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2014/201407/#d.en.86771 http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2014/201407/#d.en.86771 “A policy like no other...will change the OA game in the UK” - Alma Swan, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) BEGINS APRIL 2016 Essentially, all journal articles and conference proceedings (with an ISSN) must have their full text made OA using repositories in order to be eligible for the UK’s next REF

9. What is Bath Spa University’s approach? http://creativecommons.org/tag/openness ?

10.  The Policy came into effect in March 2015.  It mirrors the HEFCE OA Policy by requiring deposit of metadata for all research outputs; full text of articles; and full text equivalent of other research outputs where possible. BSU Open Access Policy http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/regulations/open-access-policy

11.  It is an online archive that aims to collate, preserve and showcase the research of Bath Spa University – bibliographic records and entire research outputs (text/visual/audio/etc..).  It is hosted by ‘EPrints’, the market leaders in repository software in the UK.  It was launched by the Library in April 2013 and has since collected around 5,200 bibliographic records.  Has over 400 records that contain ‘full text’ with roughly 20,500 collective downloads of these so far. ResearchSPAce - the basics https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/

12. And the most downloaded outputs are… TITLEAUTHORDOWNLOADS SO FAR Creative learning environments in educationCollier, C. [et al]1,125 The eighth Karmapa’s life and his interpretation of the Great Seal Rheingans, J.928 The secret viceMason, D.828 Constraint, collaboration and creativity in popular songwriting teams Bennett, J.794 http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk/ Theses are a very popular item type to download as they are linked to from EThOSEThOS

13. A record of what is being produced at BSU by each research area However, in terms of ‘full text’ content within the repository… BSAD – 113 items MPA – 102 items Education – 72 items HCI – 83 items SEE – 52 items Number of output descriptions… Eg. Colin CrumplinColin Crumplin Jim Jeffers

14. FOR RESEARCHERS & THE UNIVERSITY:  Global visibility and greater impact  Increased accessibility that benefits wider society  Preservation of the researcher’s research  Easier collaboration between researchers (internal and external)  Centralised storage for research collections  Strengthens University’s research profile  Marketing tool  Compliance with open access requirements  Multi-purpose information source (Uni reports, staff profiles)staff profiles Benefits to using ResearchSPAce

15. Thank you for listening Becky Atkins Research Publications Librarian Library & Learning Services r.atkins@bathspa.ac.uk researchspace@bathspa.ac.uk TEL: 01225 876615