Open Access: An Introduction
Open Access: An Introduction:
Bibliographic description
JEFFERY, G Keith / Open Access: An Introduction. (On line) ERCIM NEWS edition (Available at: http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw64/jeffery.html )
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Open Access (OA) means that electronic scholarly articles are available freely at the point of use. The subject has been discussed for over 10 years, but has reached a crescendo of discussion over the last few years with various declarations in favour of OA from groups of researchers or their representatives. The UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee considered the issue in 2004, reporting in the summer in favour of OA. This indicates the importance of the issue, and led to statements from large research funding bodies such as the Welcome Trust and the Research Councils UK.
MotivationsEthics: There is an ethical argument that research funded by the public should be available to the public. Since research is an international activity, this crosses national boundaries.
Research Impact: The Internet provides an opportunity. Modern harvesting techniques and search engines make it possible to discover publications of relevance if they are deposited in an OA repository with a particular metadata standard. If all authors did this then the world of research would be available 'at the fingertips'. There is evidence that articles available in an OA repository have more accesses (readers), citations and therefore impact. Costs: There is concern over the hindrance to research caused by the cost of journal subscriptions, whether electronic or paper. These costs run well above the rate of inflation with the result that libraries with restricted budgets (ie all of them!) are no longer providing many journals needed by researchers.
Just reward: There is also concern that in traditional scholarly publishing, most of the work (authoring, reviewing, editing) is done freely by the community and that the publishers make excessive profits from the actual publishing (making available) process. In conventional publishing, the institution subscribes to the publication channel to obtain electronic access or paper copies.
MotivationsEthics: There is an ethical argument that research funded by the public should be available to the public. Since research is an international activity, this crosses national boundaries.
Research Impact: The Internet provides an opportunity. Modern harvesting techniques and search engines make it possible to discover publications of relevance if they are deposited in an OA repository with a particular metadata standard. If all authors did this then the world of research would be available 'at the fingertips'. There is evidence that articles available in an OA repository have more accesses (readers), citations and therefore impact. Costs: There is concern over the hindrance to research caused by the cost of journal subscriptions, whether electronic or paper. These costs run well above the rate of inflation with the result that libraries with restricted budgets (ie all of them!) are no longer providing many journals needed by researchers.
Just reward: There is also concern that in traditional scholarly publishing, most of the work (authoring, reviewing, editing) is done freely by the community and that the publishers make excessive profits from the actual publishing (making available) process. In conventional publishing, the institution subscribes to the publication channel to obtain electronic access or paper copies.
Description according to Dublin Core:
DC Title: Open Access: An Introduction
DC Creator: Jeffery, Keith G
DC Subject: Open Access (OA), electronic publishing, Open Access Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), metadata, Commons Science, Commons Technology.
DC Description: After an introduction of the open access to the scientific publication, this document give a motivation to depose in open archives, the types of open access, barriers, and the open archives advantages .
DC Plubisher: ERCIM NEWS edition
DC Contributor:
DC Date: 2006-01
DC Type: Article
DC Format: HTML
DC Identifier: http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw64/jeffery.html
DC Source: ERCIM NEWS
DC Language: En
DC Relation: Self-archiving FAQ: http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
Bibliography of OA Advantage: http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html
American Scientist Open Access Forum: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/ archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html
DC Coverage: International
DC Rights: All rights according
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