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Definitions, Conflicts, Open Access and Some Guidance Open Access Free availability on the public Without The only constraint internet financial, on reproduction and distribution, permitting any users to legal, or and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give read, technical authors control over the integrity download, barriers of their work and the right to be copy, properly acknowledged and cited. other than those inseparable distribute, from gaining access to the print, internet itself. search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, https://open-access.net/en/information-on-open-access/what-is-open-access 27/08/2020 UZH Summer School "Yes, We're Open" 2 Colour Palette of OA Closed Access Green OA Gold OA Black Paid by readers Usually on an Often paid by authors https://sci-hub.tw/ (subscription) institutional repository (Article Processing ! (after embargo of e.g. 6 Charges, APC) months) Sometimes paid by Legal to use in CH Version might differ society/institution/etc: from publisher. (e.g. No «Diamond» or typsetting, sometimes «Platinum» before peer review) 27/08/2020 UZH Summer School "Yes, We're Open" 3 OA Routes 27/08/2020 UZH Summer School "Yes, We're Open" 4 Licenses: Creative Commons Free to: NonCommercial — You may not use the • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium material for commercial purposes. or format • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. Under the following terms: Bronze OA • Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No license • No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode 27/08/2020 UZH Summer School "Yes, We're Open" 5 Problems Insentives for rigorous review? Retractions? Corrections? Closed Access Green OA Gold OA Black • High subscription • Embargo • Author pays – not • Sci-hub itself illegal fees (bundling) always possible • Published/peer- • Many libraries reviewed version • «Diamond» needs cannot afford it different from institutional, long- archived term support • No access for citizens (and companies) that already paid research with taxes • + APCs sometimes! 27/08/2020 UZH Summer School "Yes, We're Open" 6 Problems Closed Access Green OA Gold OA • Subscription • Author pays Hybrid Journals – «Double Dipping» Not accepted by «Mirror some funders Journals» 27/08/2020 UZH Summer School "Yes, We're Open" 7 Mirror Journals https://www.elsevier.com/connect/what-are-mirror-journals-and-can-they-offer-a-new-world-of-open-access 27/08/2020 UZH Summer School "Yes, We're Open" 8 http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/margin.html https://twitter.com/MatteoCarandini 27/08/2020 UZH Summer School "Yes, We're Open" 9 Read-and-publish agreements • Universities/Consortium pays fixed price for publishing and reading. • E.g. “Project DEAL” in Germany. • No costs for first/corresponding author. • Fear: Even stronger monopoly for large publishers. 27/08/2020 UZH Summer School "Yes, We're Open" 10 Read-and-publish agreements: Costs ??? https://wisspub.net/author/chgutknecht/ Dissapointing and recurring theme: (Many) libraries defend the publishers arguments to keep prices secret 27/08/2020 UZH Summer School "Yes, We're Open" 11 Opinion 1. Publicly funded research should 4. Publishers can ask for as much money be publicly available. as the want to. But Unversities/Libraries should not sign unreasonable contracts. 2. Publishing DOES cost (some) money. 5. The real problem are the scientists themselves. 3. State-funded institutions have an obligation to make sure that they 6. Funders hold the key (the money). do not pay unreasonable prices. 27/08/2020 UZH Summer School "Yes, We're Open" 12 27/08/2020 UZH Summer School "Yes, We're Open" 13 SNF Policy Options for books as well! https://oa100.snf.ch/en/home-en/ 27/08/2020 UZH Summer School "Yes, We're Open" 14 Personal Open Access Record https://oa100.snf.ch/en/news-en/personal-open-access-report-with-one-click/ Not complete, not everything correct, but use it to make your supervisors aware that some articles could be made publicly available via the Green Road. 27/08/2020 UZH Summer School "Yes, We're Open" 15 Why would anyone choose Closed Access? Scientific Community Monetary Carreer • Scope of Journal/similar • No APC Budget • Journal «Prestige» articles • Impact Factor • My colleagues should see • Future the work hiring/promotion/funding • Quality reviewers/Editors 27/08/2020 UZH Summer School "Yes, We're Open" 16 Concrete (Personal) Example Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) 27/08/2020 UZH Summer School "Yes, We're Open" 17 Name Specialist? Open Access Publisher APC Impact Factor JMR Yes No/Hybrid Elsevier - JMRO Yes Yes Elsevier Waived 2020 Specialist Society Journal MR Yes Yes Copernicus ETH Open, interactive Peer Review PCCP Semi Hybrid RSC ETH JPCL Semi Hybrid ACS High JACS No Hybrid ACS High Angewandte No Hybrid GDCh High Chemical No Yes RSC None Science Science No Yes AAAS High Advances 27/08/2020 UZH Summer School "Yes, We're Open" 18 Naive? Kind of ... San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment • Change towards OA needs a change of research(er) evaluation. • Impact Factor and Journal prestige https://twitter.com/DORAssessment should be irrelevant. The science https://twitter.com/Stephen_Curry should count. • «Output» is more than papers. • But: Policies are useless, if scientists evaluate each other on the basis of skewed metrics. 27/08/2020 UZH Summer School "Yes, We're Open" 19 Today Tomorrow 27/08/2020 UZH Summer School "Yes, We're Open" 20.