Publishers, Papers & Peer Review Thursday 14Th June 2018
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Doing open (and social) science as an ECR Dr Lisa Lodwick & Dr Jasmine Nirody All Souls/Archaeology & All Souls/Physics Publishers, papers & peer review Thursday 14th June 2018 The popularity of open access pre- and post-prints is slowly spreading across disciplines The popularity of open access pre- and post-prints is slowly spreading across disciplines ….but still has a long way to go. Open Access Publication in Archaeology How I’ve Published • 2013 – Vegetation History and Archaeobotany (Springer) • Post-print archived on ORA (12 month embargo) • 2014 – chapter in TRAC Proceedings • (now open access on TRAJ) • 2015 – Environmental Archaeology (T & F) • Post-printed archived in Centaur (18 month embargo) • 2017 – Quaternary International (Elsevier (sorry)) • APCs from Reading University Block Grant • 2017 – Britannia (CUP) • Post-print archived in Centaur (0 month embargo) • 2017 – Rural Economy of Roman Britain (Britannia Monographs) • No OA option • 2018 – Vegetation History and Archaeobotany (Springer) • Post-print archived in Centaur and ORA (12 month embargo) 158 downloads Postprint has more downloads than the VoR Wikipedia editing Proceedings of the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference 1991 --> 2016 Mainly Oxbow (specialist archaeological publisher) no £ Motivations: widen access to knowledge, improve publishing option for authors, disrupt the sub-discipline. - non-profit gold OA publisher - Prof Martin Eve and Dr Caroline Edwards (Birkbeck) - Launched 2015 - publish 23 journals https://www.openlibhums.org/journals/ - Xml and pdf formatting - CLOCKKS archiving - CC-BY licensing - Indexed by google scholar, Web of Science (Emerging Sources Citation Index), DOAJ - DOIs • Registration (DOAJ, CCBY) • Certification (double-blind peer review) • Prestige () • Archiving (CLOCKKS, LOCKKS) • Dissemination (open) Prof Susan Alcock (University of Michigan) Dr John Creighton (University of Reading) • Discoverability (range of Dr Ben Croxford (Merseyside HER) indexing, social media share Prof Hella Eckardt (University of Reading) buttons) Dr Andrew Gardner (UCL) Dr Elizabeth Greene (Western University) • Experimentation and innovation Prof Richard Hingley (Durham University) Prof David Mattingly (University of Leicester) Prof Martin Millett (University of Cambridge) • Get to the ‘right’ people (29 year Dr Louise Revell (University of Southampton) brand) Dr Darrell Rohl (Canterbury Christ Church) Dr Eleanor Scott Prof Naomi Sykes (University of Nottingham) Prof Nicola Terrenato (University of Michigan) Dr Astrid van Oyen (Cornell University) Prof Miguel Versluys (Universiteit Leiden) Dr Jane Webster (University of Newcastle) Dr Robert Witcher (Durham University) Who we usually talk with Who we probably should be talking with Biophysicist (Classical) Archaeobotanist Wednesdays 4:30pm Michaelmas • Encourage colleagues (Phds, ECRs) to archive their post prints (and even pre prints). • Encourage colleagues to edit wikipedia. • Push for movements towards open access within scholarly societies. • Talk to people outside your disciplinary bubble..