Unlocking the door: Open Access Janet Smith

What is open access? “Open access is about making the products of research freely accessible to all” - HEFCE Why do we need to know about it? Funder requirements REF submission (REF2020) requirements University research strategy to improve REF outcomes

How can you do this? Green Time not money Published in an electronic “green” journal which allows repository deposit Not accessible immediately without a journal subscription - embargoes Deposit pre-publication version in a repository – “self-archiving”

How can you do this? Gold Hybrid Money not time Free immediate electronic access – no embargoes Authors (often institutions) usually required to pay Article Processing Charges (APCs) Hybrid Traditional Subscription and typically Gold articles in same journal

Open access @ Newman Newman open access policy Approved by Research Committee Senate approval required Advocates green route Available on the intranet https://www.newman.ac.uk/intranet/knowledge- base/open-access-2/

Research outputs: what do I need to do? Newman is using the CREST Repository http://collections.crest.ac.uk/ Library managing repository process – we will deposit for you but… You need to submit information and pre-publication version to us, using the intranet form

Research outputs: what do I need to do? Journal articles & conference proceedings - publication has ISSN Accepted for publication after 1 April 2016 Deposit within 2 months of acceptance for publication Final peer-reviewed draft – no printer’s formatting Word version of output for us to convert to full text searchable pdf

Tools and information http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/index.php?la=en http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/fact/index.php?la=en http://roarmap.eprints.org/

Library Research support Academic Service Librarians Library Research web pages & guides Workshops : Open Access: Basics Our Repository - CREST Advanced Literature Search Referencing & Tools

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