making your research open access the green way
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Make your research open the Green wayGrant DenkinsonUniversity LibraryResearch Festival 2014 Research Bytes 1
What is open access?
OPEN ACCESS BENEFITS
Greater visibility for your research
New audiences, wider reach and influence
New discoveries (text and data mining)
Green or Gold?
Your paper, your choices …
Publish in a subscription
journal
Do nothing(=closed access)
Deposit manuscript in a
repository
GREENopen access
Pay open access fee, if applicable
Publish in an open access only
journal
Pay open access fee, if applicable
GOLDopen access
How to upload your publication via IRIS
• Log on to IRIS (https://iris.le.ac.uk/login.html)
• Find your publication’s record or create a new record for it.
• Upload the full text of the publication and grant the license for our repository.
Getting others to deposit for you…
• If you have an IRIS account:– authorise others to deposit publications for you
• Email your publication to [email protected]– You can use a secure file sharing service too
• Bring your file into the library for the LRA team
After you’ve provided the file…
• We will check the copyright policy of the publisher and then do one of these:– Make your publication available in the LRA.– Make your publication available after the
publisher embargo period.– Create a bibliographic only entry.
• We will contact you once your publication details are available in the LRA.
Open access for RCUK researchersQuestions?