1. Increasing the Impact of Your Research: Open Access and cIRcle Hilde Colenbrander & Tara Stephens

2. Opening questions What is your place of mind regarding yourresearch? How many papers do you write in a year? How many of these get published? What happens to all the others? Is this fair to you, your colleagues, and yourfaculty?With acknowledgements to Francisco Grajales 3. What is Open Access?Open Access (OA) literature is: Digital information made available free-of-charge on the web Refers particularly to peer reviewed researcharticles and their preprints Not free to produceOA started as a response to exponentialjournal price increases 4. What is Open Access?OA is a response to growing demands forpublic accountability for tax dollars Granting agency mandates Institutional/Faculty mandatesOA makes scholarly information freelyavailable around the world 5. Open Access mandates Granting agencies Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/34846.html U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) UK Wellcome Trust University mandates/policies Queensland University of Technology University College London MIT Faculty mandates Harvard Business School, Harvard Divinity School 6. What problems doesOpen Access solve? Dr David S.H. Rosenthals blog: http://blog.dshr.org/2011/10/what-problems-does-open-access-solve.html 7. Open Access vehiclesOA journals Directory of Open Access Journalshttp://www.doaj.org/Toll access journals with Open options: Kluwer Open Choice Palgrave Open Springer Open Choice 8. Open Access vehicles Digital repositories/databases: Maintained by universities/libraries Freely accessible to anyone Content includes: Authorized copies of published scholarlywork Unpublished scholarly work Example: cIRcle http://circle.ubc.ca 9. Repositories world wide ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories)currently lists 2550+ repositories world wide Australia: 66 Brazil: 109 Canada: 70 Germany: 137 India: 76 South Africa: 27 UK: 218 USA: 399 http://roar.eprints.org/ 10. UBC Place and Promise Be a world leader in knowledge exchangeand mobilization Develop a campus strategy for making UBCresearch accessible in digital repositories,especially open access digital repositories 11. UBC Research Strategy Develop a central scholarly publicationsand data repository to ensure results ofUBC research are freely accessible andmeet the NIH and CIHR requirementsregarding open access This is a partnership with the UBC Library thathelps to promote more openness in ourresearch 12. UBC Library Strategic Plan Increase the impact of UBC research bymaking it widely available in open accessdigital repositories Develop cIRcle into a showcase for research,with emphasis on local, regional and nationalcollaborations 13. How do we define impact? 14. Research Impact Although it is risky to create a single summaryof meaningful impact for research, perhaps thenotion that excellent research can create animproved quality of life or a better world is onethat embraces the full scope of our efforts. P.5 UBC Research Strategy http://bit.ly/UBCResearchStrategy 15. Top 3 Benefits 16. Simple 17. Visible 18. Permanent 19. Whos using cIRcle? 20. Faculty collections 21. Student research There are numerous examples ofexemplary student work in cIRcle 22. http://bit.ly/bcminechart 23. What about copyright? For materials deposited in cIRcle: cIRcle requires a non-exclusive license todistribute Copyright owner retains copyright If you are not the copyright owner, you needpermission from the copyright owner/publisherto deposit in cIRcle Note: The Publication Agreements that authors sign with publishers are critical! 24. copyright.ubc.ca 25. Copyright is a bundle of rights Transferred in whole or in part Exclusively or non-exclusively For specific time periods, or indefinitely With or without royalty feesWith acknowledgements to Julia Blixruds Author Rights Webcast, Nov 29/07 26. Publication AgreementsWhat rights do authors assign topublishers?What rights do authors retain?Why?Examples: American Medical Association Public Library of Science 27. American Medical AssociationJournal (JAMA) 28. Managing author rights What rights might the publisher need? Exclusive right to first publication What rights might the author want toretain? Re-publication in a different format, medium, place orlanguage Posting a copy to one of more web sites Sending copies to colleagues or students Creating a derivative work etc. 29. Tools for authors:SHERPA/RoMEO Publisher Copyright Policies & Self-Archiving according to RoMEO: Green publishers Blue publishers Yellow publishers White publishers SHERPA/RoMEO Projectwww.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php 30. Tools for authors:Author Addenda SPARC Canadian Author Addendum www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/author/author- e.html#addendum Scholars Copyright AddendumEngine scholars.sciencecommons.org/ JISC/SURF Copyright Toolbox copyrighttoolbox.surf.nl/copyrighttoolbox/ 31. Tools for authors:Creative Commons licenses Creative Commons International:Canadahttp://creativecommons.org/ 32. Showcase your innovative work Innovative Dissemination of Research Award,UBC Library: Recognizes new and innovative ways of communicating anddisseminating research UBC faculty, staff, and students are eligible Framed certificate of recognition and $2,000 cash prize 2012 application deadline:Monday, November 28, 2011, 5 p.m.http://scholcomm.ubc.ca/events-awards/award/ 33. Showcase your innovative work Coming in 2012: The GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award For non-thesis graduate student work 34. Scholarly ActivitySearch Sherpa/RoMEO www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.phpfor a journal in your field in which you maywant to publish (or have published) and lookat permissions. Can articles in this journal be added to cIRcle? What are the restrictions? 35. Todays message? Hold on to your author rights Put your content in cIRcle 36. Get started with cIRcle! ubc-circle@interchange.ubc.ca Hilde Colenbrander, Tara Stephens, cIRcle CoordinatorcIRcle Librarianhttps://circle.ubc.caThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada License.