1. Ways to Open Access Sophia Jones Centre for Research Communications (CRC) University of Nottingham

2. Open Access Visibility (The citation advantage of open access articles, Michael Norris, 2008) Subscription costs Central storage and preservation Research funders requirements (SHERPA Juliet: www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet)www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet

4. How to make publications Open Access OA Journals http://www.doaj.org/http://www.doaj.org/ - Hybrid Journals (69 publishers listed in RoMEO)

5. Open Access Publications Fund Research Innovation Services Rosaline.jones@nottingham.ac.uk Christine.Middleton@nottingham.ac.uk

6. How to make publications Open Access OA repositories http://www.opendoar.orghttp://www.opendoar.org Store digital copies of research materials and make them freely available online Nottingham Eprints: Dick.Chamberlain@nottingham.ac.uk

7. Publication and self-archiving Author writes paper Submits to journal Paper refereed Revised by author Author submits final version Published in journal Repository Preprint Postprint

8. Checking publishers policy on OA www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo Over 90% of journals allow archiving of journal articles, subject to conditions In most cases they allow archiving of the authors final version A few publishers have embargo periods (e.g. 6 months) which need to be spent before papers can be made available

11. Nottingham ePrints eprints.nottingham.ac.uk

14. DART Europe – www.dart-europe.eu

15. http://etheses.nottingham.ac.uk http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ris/local/funding-opportunities/index.php

16. References Nottingham ePrints http://eprints.nottingham.ac.ukhttp://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk Nottingham eTheses http://etheses.nottingham.ac.ukhttp://etheses.nottingham.ac.uk SHERPA JULIET (funder policies) http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/ SHERPA ROMEO (publisher policies)http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeohttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo Hybrid OA options http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/paideoa.htmlhttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/paideoa.html OpenDOAR http://www.opendoar.orghttp://www.opendoar.org Directory of OA Journals http://www.doaj.org/http://www.doaj.org/ Additional reading: Peter Subers Blog http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.htmlhttp://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html SHERPA info & advice http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/guidance/authors.html#whatoahttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/guidance/authors.html#whatoa Houghton Report, and comments http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/economicpublishingmodelsfinalreport. aspx http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/economicpublishingmodelsfinalreport. aspx

17. Contacts Sophia.jones@nottingham.ac.uk Susan.heaster@nottingham.ac.uk Rosaline.jones@nottingham.ac.uk Christine.Middleton@nottingham.ac.uk Dick.Chamberlain@nottingham.ac.uk