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Your story matters Citation Peter Suber, Science Dissemination using Open Access (Enrique Canessa and Marco Zennaro, 2008) Published Version http://sdu.ictp.it/openaccess/book.html Citable link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4552053 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http:// nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of- use#LAA Science Dissemination using Open Access A compendium of selected literature on Open Access Science Dissemination using Open Access For more information about this book, visit us online at http://sdu.ictp.it/openaccess/book.html Editors: Enrique Canessa and Marco Zennaro Publisher ✦ ICTP - The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics © 2008 ICTP Science Dissemination Unit, e-mail: [email protected] First edition: July 2008 ISBN 92-95003-40-3 Disclaimer The editors and publishers have taken due care in preparation of this book, but make no expressed or implied warranty of any kind and assume no responsibility for errors or omissions. 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For more details regarding your rights to use and redistribute this work, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Table of Contents PART 1: SELECTED LITERATURE 1 Overview 3 What is Open Access?........................................................... 5 Who benefits from Open Access?.......................................... 6 Why is Open Access important?............................................ 7 Open Access: “Strong” and “Weak”....................................... 7 Six things that researchers need to know about Open Access. 9 Declarations 13 Budapest Open Access Initiative............................................ 14 Berlin declaration on Open Access to knowledge in the sciences and humanities...................................................................... 14 Open letter signed by 25 Nobel Prize winners....................... 16 Open Access to science in Developing Countries 21 Starting a new scholarly Open Access journal in Africa.......... 25 The African Physical Review: An example.............................. 28 Types of journals published 31 General journals.................................................................... 32 Specialized journals.............................................................. 34 Regional journals................................................................... 34 Institutional journals.............................................................. 34 Annual reviews...................................................................... 35 Deciding on a publication type.............................................. 35 Getting professional 37 Challenges for new journals................................................... 38 Measuring your impact.......................................................... 39 Journal standards and identifiers............................................ 40 Building reliable and ongoing content................................... 42 Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe (LOCKSS).............................. 42 Legal framework 43 The public domain................................................................ 44 iii Open content........................................................................ 44 Intellectual property conservancies........................................ 44 Creative Commons (CC) licenses........................................... 45 Creative Commons licenses: An example............................... 46 About Science Commons....................................................... 57 Copyleft................................................................................. 58 Institutional Open Access policies and mandates: NIH example 59 Need for the policy................................................................ 61 Scope of the policy................................................................ 63 Potential for public misunderstanding of research findings: NIH prospective............................................................................ 64 Version control and quality of manuscripts............................ 65 Potential for acceleration of medical cures............................. 66 Potential economic impact on journal publishers................... 66 Potential impact on journal peer review................................. 68 Potential impact on scientists................................................. 69 Open Access publication and the NIH Public Access Policy.. 70 Economic models for journal publishing 71 Subscription-based journals................................................... 72 Open Access journals............................................................ 73 Limited Open Access journals............................................... 75 Funding scientific Open Access 77 Financial sustainability via advertising: A proposal................ 78 Target specific advertisement................................................. 78 Ads by Google....................................................................... 79 Google AdSense ads for Open Access journals...................... 80 A free fully-hosted Open Journal systems platform................ 81 SCOAP3................................................................................ 82 Benefits of SCOAP3............................................................... 83 Getting found, staying found, increasing impact 85 Getting found: Building the visibility of your journal.............. 86 What are commercial indexes?.............................................. 86 What are open databases?..................................................... 87 Open indexes........................................................................ 88 Directories............................................................................. 89 iv Search engines....................................................................... 90 Open Archive metadata harvesters......................................... 92 Libraries................................................................................ 93 The media.............................................................................. 95 How to distribute a press release........................................... 96 Web 2.0 and Open Access 97 The personal research portal (PRP)......................................... 98 Social software, Web 2.0 and DIY web technologies............. 101 ‘How to’ hints: a PRP prototype............................................. 103 PRP and the knowledge divide............................................... 105 Remarks................................................................................ 111 Open academic webcasting 113 Bandwidth consuming technologies...................................... 114 Connectivity trends in Developing Countries......................... 115 Enhance your audience (EyA)................................................ 116 Digitization of open course content....................................... 117 Evaluation and assessment..................................................... 119 Remarks................................................................................ 120 MIT OpenCourseWare........................................................... 121 Video communications with SciVee....................................... 122 PART 2: SOFTWARE 125 EPrints 127 EPrints live CD....................................................................... 128 Using the live CD.................................................................. 129 Storing your archive on a memory stick................................. 130 Restoring your archive from memory stick............................. 132 DSpace 133 DSpace FAQ.......................................................................... 134 Self-Archiving FAQ 143 What is self-archiving?........................................................... 144 Open Access archives: Examples 149 ArXiv e-Print archive.............................................................. 150 Open Access services at ICTP: Scientific publications............ 151 HAL: Hyper Article en ligne................................................... 153 v Spir@l: Imperial College digital repository............................. 154 PubMed Central..................................................................... 155 An international open archive: E-LIS 159 Overview............................................................................... 161 The E-LIS organizational model.............................................. 163 Strategic issues....................................................................... 165 E-LIS policies......................................................................... 167 Submission policy.................................................................. 167 Copyright policies.................................................................. 169 Editorial section..................................................................... 171 Open Journals System 175 Step