Ideas for tools for helping with Open Access publication
I find tools from SHERPA useful. I like to keep an eye on what I’d ideally like as well as what is currently available both for me and people I work with. In tools to help with Open Access publishing: For researchers: A clear choice between contractual choices for a journal, with a small number […]
Publisher-librarian round table, 20 May 2014
SCONUL e-monthly April 2014 had [links added by me] One-day workshop on open access, London, 20 May BMJ, IOP Publishing, Royal Society Publishing and the Royal Society of Chemistry are working in collaboration with the Research Information Network (RIN) to run a one-day workshop on open access (OA), in order to understand how institutions have […]
Page numbers and preprints
An author friend flagged up some problems with Green Open Access (OA): A common and baseline important thing: referencing, and the æsthetics and readability of the text. Can the version we archive be referenced in detail in the same way as the published copy of record? Is our archived version beautiful and easy to read? I’m […]
Yet more barriers to Open Access
I’ve recently heard of three general areas of concern about Open Access (OA) from more senior colleagues: There are lots of poor quality open access journals out there and some of them are no more than money scams I can’t see the value of open access because my papers are instantly available to other researchers in […]
Open Access Forum – 4th April 2014
I’m very pleased to be organising an Open Access forum as part of the University of Leicester Research Festival next Friday 4th April 2014. The blurb reads: Open Access (OA): Broadcasting your research to make a bigger impact worldwide, keeping your funders and employer happy and putting more of the combined observations, analysis and knowledge of […]
More reasons not to publish OA?
Thanks to Anton Angelo for a couple more good challenges we get back when we ask people about depositing their research in their institutional repository: I already put it up on Arxiv? This is just wasted effort! I’ve been thinking about this one for a few days and have had similar queries here: why don’t […]
Why not deposit Open Access?
I hear concerns about depositing publications in our Open Access repository: Leicester Research Archive and think we need to address them. Some I think are good reasons not to simply go with Open Access. With many others I’m aiming for engagement and probably reassurance and encouragement rather than agreeing with barriers. As ever, I could […]
Why deposit your research in LRA
This morning I helped present a short session in the library and on-line as part of our Research elevenses sessions on Managing your research output: Making your publications available through the Leicester Research Archive. A recording will be available soon. My part was on why a researcher might want to deposit their research in our archive. I collected some […]
Why Green Open Access?
I’m interested in promoting open access to research and will help present next week’s Research elevenses half hour talk on Making your publications available through the Leicester Research Archive. I’m starting with Why Green Open Access? I expect to think on this topic and expand in the future on it. Eprints: Open Access has some useful pointers: Mandates and Metrics: How Open […]
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