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Continuing on from yesterday’s post about OA publishing, I thought it might be a good idea to take a closer look at the other side of Open Access: the Institutional Repository, and more specifically, OpenDOAR.

The Institutional Repository (IR) is a collection of the research output of an academic institution.  SURE collects the research done at The University of Sunderland for instance.  

The contents of an IR sit alongside, rather than replacing, traditional publishing and provide access to research to those who otherwise might not have it.  Publishers often allow the use of what we call ‘postprint’ versions of research to be added to an IR along with a URL linking to the article (or conference paper, or whatever…) as published.  This version, while not having the aesthetic polish of a published article, is identical in terms of content, and allows free and open access to important research, and acts as a great promotional tool for the University.

OpenDoar is a worldwide repository of repositories.  

You can find a lot more information about repositories at the Repository Support Project

uoslibrarybusiness:

OK, today’s recommendation for Open Access business & tourism research and information is the Business and Management Review (BMR).

Business and Management Review (BMR) is an international open-access and online journal that is published monthly. It invites research papers from all…

openaccessweek:

In preparation for Open Access Week, here are some links you may want to check out. I will post more throughout the week but this is a good start. Enjoy!

Open Access Week

Upcoming events (worldwide Open Access Week events are listed!)

Harvard Open Access Project

Creative Commons

Enabling open scholarship

Open Access Directory (OAD)

Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook

Open Access Tracking Project & their Twitter

Day one: The Basics.

I thought it might be useful to start with this introduction to Open Access by Peter Suber:

A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access
by Peter Suber

Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder.

In most fields, scholarly journals do not pay authors, who can therefore consent to OA without losing revenue. In this respect scholars and scientists are very differently situated from most musicians and movie-makers, and controversies about OA to music and movies do not carry over to research literature.

OA is entirely compatible with peer review, and all the major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist on its importance. Just as authors of journal articles donate their labor, so do most journal editors and referees participating in peer review.

OA literature is not free to produce, even if it is less expensive to produce than conventionally published literature. The question is not whether scholarly literature can be made costless, but whether there are better ways to pay the bills than by charging readers and creating access barriers. Business models for paying the bills depend on how OA is delivered.

There are two primary vehicles for delivering OA to research articles: OA journals and OA archives or repositories.

·         OA archives or repositories do not perform peer review, but simply make their contents freely available to the world. They may contain unrefereed preprints, refereed postprints, or both. Archives may belong to institutions, such as universities and laboratories, or disciplines, such as physics and economics. Authors may archive their preprints without anyone else’s permission, and a majority of journals already permit authors to archive their postprints. When archives comply with the metadata harvesting protocol of the Open Archives Initiative, then they are interoperable and users can find their contents without knowing which archives exist, where they are located, or what they contain. There is now open-source software for building and maintaining OAI-compliant archives and worldwide momentum for using it.

·         OA journals perform peer review and then make the approved contents freely available to the world. Their expenses consist of peer review, manuscript preparation, and server space. OA journals pay their bills very much the way broadcast television and radio stations do: those with an interest in disseminating the content pay the production costs upfront so that access can be free of charge for everyone with the right equipment. Sometimes this means that journals have a subsidy from the hosting university or professional society. Sometimes it means that journals charge a processing fee on accepted articles, to be paid by the author or the author’s sponsor (employer, funding agency). OA journals that charge processing fees usually waive them in cases of economic hardship. OA journals with institutional subsidies tend to charge no processing fees. OA journals can get by on lower subsidies or fees if they have income from other publications, advertising, priced add-ons, or auxiliary services. Some institutions and consortia arrange fee discounts. Some OA publishers waive the fee for all researchers affiliated with institutions that have purchased an annual membership. There’s a lot of room for creativity in finding ways to pay the costs of a peer-reviewed OA journal, and we’re far from having exhausted our cleverness and imagination.

For a longer introduction, with live links for further reading, see my Open Access Overview, http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm.

That’s all for now, but make sure you check this blog tomorrow for more on Open Access and how the initiative can benefit you and your research.

Here&#8217;s the second in a series of Open Access Week-themed posts.  Today I&#8217;d like to highlight  The Directory of Open Access Repositories.  I hope you all find this free resource useful.

Here’s the second in a series of Open Access Week-themed posts.  Today I’d like to highlight  The Directory of Open Access Repositories.  I hope you all find this free resource useful.

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