1. Are you making the most of Open Access?
Helen Dobson
Research Services Librarian

2. If not, why not? Time Cost Confusion Concern about OA licences
Just for articles?

3. Green Open Access Gold Open Access Free to read in the journal
Free to re-use (CC-BY licence)
Green Open Access
Free to read via repository
Free to read specified version after embargo

6. Green Open Access
Author Accepted Manuscript

7. Gold Open Access
$3300

8. Do you think about Open Access options when choosing a journal?

9. Does your funder require Open Access?

11. HEFCE Open access criteria (1)
Outputs meeting the definition must satisfy all of the following requirements to be treated as open-access.
Deposit requirements
Output must be deposited in an institutional or subject repository within three months of being accepted for publication.
Output must be deposited as the final, peer-reviewed text (as a minimum).

12. HEFCE Open access criteria (2)
Outputs meeting the definition must satisfy all of the following requirements to be treated as open-access.
Discovery requirements
Output must be discoverable to anyone with an internet connection, and to search engines.

13. HEFCE Open access criteria (3)
Outputs meeting the definition must satisfy all of the following requirements to be treated as open-access.
Access requirements
Output must allow anyone with internet access to search electronically within the text, read it and download it without charge.
The access requirements must be fulfilled as soon as any embargo period has elapsed. Embargo periods should not exceed the following maxima:
12 months for REF main panels A and B
24 months for REF main panels C and D

16. Does your funder provide funds to pay for Open Access?

17. Funds available RCUK block grant Charity Open Access Fund (pilot)
Library Open Access Fund (pilot)

18. Open Access? It’s complicated….

22. Unfunded researchers

24. Version of paper

25. Check Open Access options using
Sherpa/RoMEO

26. Author Accepted Manuscript

27. RCUK or COAF funded?
Check
Sherpa/FACT

29. What kind of rights do you retain when you publish?

34. Have you published under a Creative Commons licence?

36. Isn’t Open Access only for research papers?

43. Why Open Access?

44. Thank you