1. Expanding Access and Increasing Impact: How to Retain your Rights to your Research and Why Deposit in TigerPrints
Andrew Wesolek
Head of Digital Scholarship

2. Scholarly Communication:
Describes the system by which researchers share the results of their research with colleagues.
First scholarly journal:
Philosophical Transactions (1665)
Peer review adopted in the
mid-twentieth century 2

3. The System: Author writes an article and submits it to a journal
Experts in the field evaluate the author’s work
Journal publishes the work
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Academic researchers do not get paid for submitting articles to be published, nor do they get paid to serve as peer-reviewers. Now, this might sound odd to some of you, so maybe I should explain: Researchers are paid by their employers, universities such as Clemson, so they are not dependent on royalties in the way that many artists, musicians, and novelists are. This independence
is a good thing in that it creates an environment in which researchers are free to devote time, energy, and intellect into solving problems that may not bring them direct economic benefit.
So why do they do it? Researchers are happy to submit their research and offer peer-review services for free because they are incentivized by prestige and career benefits. Journals play the important role of disseminating an authors research to his or her colleagues around the world allowing them to make an impact in their fields, benefiting both their careers and prestige.
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4. This system worked smoothly for several hundred years, but…
Over the last several decades,
the prices of scholarly journals
have skyrocketed.
The result: access problems
“The Deeper problem is that we donate time, labor, and public money to create new knowledge and then hand control over the results to businesses that believe, correctly or incorrectly, that their revenue and survival depend on limiting access.”
-Peter Suber
For the past four decades, the price of scholarly journals has increased at several times the rate of inflation and much faster than library budgets.
The increase in the cost of journals has outpaced even the cost of heathcare
This creates access problems—even the wealthiest universities in the world are forced to cancel journal subscriptions, thus limiting the access many researchers have to vital research
These access gaps are accentuated in the developing world. While Harvard is able to subscribe to 98,900 journals, the best-funded university in India can afford only 10,600.
In spite of this, some of the large journal publishing conglomerates have profit margins above 35%

5. The System: Author writes an article and submits it to a journal
Experts in the field evaluate the author’s work
Journal publishes the work
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Prior to dramatic price increases, journal publication ensured that an author’s work reached the researchers that really needed it. Now, access barriers ensure that the potential audience for an author’s work is limited.
In spite of this, many of the large publishers of scholarly journals report profit margins of greater than 35%!
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6. A More Diverse Scholarly Communication Ecosystem
By shifting to Open Access we can:
Accelerate the pace of research
Lay a foundation for new types of digital scholarship
Take advantage of digital publication to reduce costs and increase your impact
Democratize access across institutions regardless of size or budget
Open Access= “literature that is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions” (Peter Suber)

7. Green OA: Gold OA: Two Strategies:
Author self archiving in an institutional or funder repository, personal website, or some other freely accessible website
Authors publish in fully open-access journals. These journals make ALL of their published articles freely and immediately available on their websites

8. Gold OA:
Still depend on some form of revenue (endowments, Author Processing Charges (APC), memberships)
Can be not-for-profit (PLOS) or for-profit (BioMed Central)
Beware of Predators!
Directory of Open Access Journals
Gold Open Access is not vanity publishing. According to the DOAJ, 2/3 of OA journals do not charge author side fees. Also, most (75%) traditional subscription-based journals charge some author side fees (such as page charges) so a case cannot be made that author-side fees somehow corrupt peer review.
In 2004, Thomas Scientific found ( that “there was at least one open access title that ranked at or near the top of the field” in impact

9. Green OA: Read your publication agreement! Investigate your rights
Attach a SPARC Addendum
Save your manuscripts!
Just because you published in a traditional journal does not mean that you do not have the rights to post a version of your work in the repository. Many publishers allow green OA, and many will grant permission if requested.

13. Benefits:
Complements traditional publishing while ensuring immediate visibility
Your work will be found more quickly and cited more frequently
Stability and long-term accessibility
Gives new life to older works
You will receive download reports for your works

14. Global Distribution

15. Added Benefit:
Chance to win one of two $25 Barnes and Noble gift cards
Each deposit in TigerPrints will constitute one entry
Winners will be notified by January 2nd

16. Know your rights
Scrutinize your publication agreements or check SHERPA/RoMEO
Pre-Print: Manuscript prior to peer review
Author’s Post-Print: The final accepted manuscript after peer review but before publisher branding/pagination
Publisher’s PDF: The version of record

17. Published Version Publishers formatting/Branding
Now, you probably noticed that we discussed various versions. Talk about the publisher’s formatting here
Journal information and pagination

18. Final Accepted Manuscript

19. Digital Commons (TigerPrints) Bibliographic Record

20. To Participate:
Simply your final author’s manuscript to:
We will check permissions
We will build a SelectedWorks site for you

21. Resources http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ http://scholarlyoa.com/