Download - Scholarly communication workshop fall 2014
Scholarly Communication Workshop
Managing Your Rights as an Author
August 27, 2014
Taylor & Francis 2014 Survey of Scholarly
Authors
authors believe that open access offers wider circulation, higher visibility, and larger readership than publication in subscription journals
71% were comfortable with non-commercial use of their work
the most preferred license by respondents was again the CC BY-NC-ND
Taylor & Francis Survey, cont; Open Access
Publishing Services Rigorous peer review
Rapid publication of my paper
Rapid peer review
Promotion of my paper post-publication
Automated deposit of my paper (Author Accepted Version) into a repository of my choice
Provision of usage and citation figures at the article level
Detailed guidance on how I can increase the visibility of my paper
Pre-peer review services such as language polishing, matching my paper to a journal, and / or formatting my paper to journal style
Provision of alt-metrics (such as Altmetric or ImpactStory)
Oberlin Group Faculty Survey
The majority of respondents’ recent publishing activity relates to journal articles, followed by book chapters, then books
Faculty are currently most dissatisfied with pricing of their work, speed of publishing and remuneration for their work
Key reasons for book publishing are developing research, communication with other scholars, and for tenure/promotion
Theological Librarianship Example – Open
Access Impact
Open Access and Copyright Resources
OpenDOAR - http://www.opendoar.org/
SHERPA/RoMEO - http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
Creative Commons - http://creativecommons.org/
SPARC - http://www.sparc.arl.org/
Further Reading
Davis, Phil. “Open Access Publication Gains
Acceptance With Authors, Licenses Still
Problematic.” The Scholarly Kitchen, July 2, 2014.
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/07/02/open-
access-publication-gains-acceptance-with-authors-
licenses-still-problematic/.
Straumsheim, Carl. “Liberal Arts College Libraries
Mull Establishing Open Access Book Publisher.”
Inside Higher Ed, April 11, 2014, sec. News.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/04/11/lib
eral-arts-college-libraries-mull-establishing-open-
access-book-publisher.
Further Reading, continued
Frass, Will, Jo Cross, and Victoria Gardner. Taylor &
Francis Open Access Survey. Taylor &
Francis/Routledge, June 2014.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/explore/open-access-
survey-june2014.pdf.
TBI Communications. Shaping the Future of
Monograph Publishing in the Liberal Arts : Results of
a Survey to Oberlin Group Faculty, January 28,
2014.
http://leverinitiative.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/surv
ey_results_oberlin_faculty_jan14.pdf.