1. Electronic Publishing and Open Access
New Alternatives for Scientific Communication
Aina Svensson, The Ultuna Library,

2. Questions to be answered
What is Open Access?
Why Open Access?
How Does the Scientific Communication Process Work Today?
What Can the SLU Libraries and Researchers Do?
Aina Svensson, The Ultuna Library,

3. What is Open Access?
Open Access is a new way in organizing the distribution
of scientific information.
Open Access = –[…] free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full texts of these articles […]
The Berlin Declaration 2003
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4. Why Open Access? The accessibility
Shorten the delay between acceptance and publication
Increased visibility for each article
Economical savings
Aina Svensson, The Ultuna Library,

5. How Does the Scientific Communication Process Work Today?
Research is payed with public funds.
The publishers receive scientific results, editing work etc. for free by the scientists.
Scientists give away their copyright to the publishers in exchange for publishing and distribution.
Universities (e.g. libraries) buy their own scientific results back from the commercial publishers.
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6. How much does a scientific journal cost?
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7. Background to Open Access
High journal prices
Libraries/universities can not afford the journals.
Limited access to research results to a growing potential audience.
Internet - the possibilities to publish the full text of a article or report in electronic form.
Aina Svensson, The Ultuna Library,

8. Open Access - two roads Self archiving in a digital archive
A researcher can place a copy of each article in an Open Access archive or repository.
Publishing in an Open Access journal
A researcher can publish articles in an Open Access journal.
Aina Svensson, The Ultuna Library,

9. Open Access Publishing
DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
BioMed Central - Open Access publisher. SLU reaserchers can publish for free.
PLoS - Public Library of Science, Open Access journals. PLoS Biology
Epsilon - Electronic Publishing at SLU
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10. What are the SLU Libraries doing to support Open Access?
Epsilon
Coordination projects
national, international
VäxtEko
We disseminate
the SLU research!
Copyright
agreements
Publication
database
Information and support in
Open Access and electronic publishing.
Aina Svensson, The Ultuna Library,

11. Electronic publishing in Epsilon
Libris
National library system for Sweden
Lukas
Catalogue of the SLU Libraries
SLU departmental web sites
Epsilon
Uppsök
Undergraduate theses in full text
Search services on Internet
Google, yahoo, OAister, etc.
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12. What can the SLU reasearchers and students do to support Open Access?
How to publish in Epsilon?
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13. SLU Libraries website Epsilon
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14.
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15. Register/log in to Epsilon
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16. Web form
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17. Accept the agreement for e-publishing
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18. Upload the PDF file
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19. Check entered data
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20. Deposit thesis
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21. When an author has submitted a thesis to the Epsilon publishing system a librarian will edit the entered data before the electronic publishing.
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22. Published thesis
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