A Guide for Faculty and Students
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Most
Expensive Journals at VCU Libraries (October,
2011)
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~dream/MostExpensiveJournalsatVCULibraries2011.docx
Internet
Ruffles Pricey Scholarly Journals (Sept, 2011)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/world/europe/19iht-educLede19.html
"the scholarly publishing industry now finds
itself in the throes of a revolt led
by the most unlikely campus revolutionaries:
the librarians."
U.
of California Tries Just Saying No to Rising Journal Costs (June,
2010)
http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-California-Tries-Just/65823/
Nature Publishing Group proposes 400% site
license journal price increase-
California Digital Library urges UCal faculty
boycott.
U.
of California and Nature Publishing Group Mend Fences (August
2010)
http://chronicle.com/blogs/pageview/u-of-californianature-publishing-group-mend-fences/26495
Open
Access Medical Journals: Will The Publishers Perish?
http://www.eric.vcu.edu/inm/MGR01_28_04.pdf
2004 Grand Rounds presentation by Dr. Michael
Edmond
VCU/MCV Associate Professor of Internal
Medicine
(an excellent overview, including specific
(2004) VCU information)
The Cost of Knowledge
(Elsevier Boycott)
http://thecostofknowledge.com/
8,898 faculty worlwide have signed as of March
30, 2012
Academics have protested against Elsevier's
business practices for years with little effect. These are some of their
objections:
--They charge exorbitantly high prices for
subscriptions to individual journals.
--In the light of these high prices, the only
realistic option for many libraries is to agree to buy very large "bundles",
which will include
many journals that those libraries do not actually want. Elsevier thus
makes huge profits by
exploiting the fact
that some of their journals are essential.
--They support measures such as SOPA, PIPA
and the Research Works Act, that aim to restrict the
free exchange
of information.
Open
Access Overview (by
Peter Suber)
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
Open
Access 101...and more (videos)
http://vimeo.com/channels/oaweek/page:1
Scientist Meets
Publisher (video)
http://youtu.be/GMIY_4t-DR0
Authors
and Open Access
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/guidance/authors.html
An FAQ from the SHERPA
Partnership in Great Britain
SPARC: The Scholarly
Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
http://www.arl.org/sparc/
Open Access
Week (October 22-28, 2012)
http://www.openaccessweek.org/
A global event, now in its 5th year, promoting Open Access as a
new norm in scholarship and research. LEARN MORE: http://tinyurl.com/2f96u6s
NIH Public Access
Policy
http://publicaccess.nih.gov/
"The NIH Public Access Policy ensures that
the public has access to the published results of NIH funded research.
It requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed
journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital
archive PubMed Central upon acceptance for
publication. To help advance science and improve human health,
the Policy requires that these papers are
accessible to the public on PubMed Central no later than 12 months
after publication."
VCU
Libraries Research Guide to NIH Public Access Policy
http://guides.library.vcu.edu/nih-public-access
Prepared by Lynne Turman at Tompkins-McCaw
Library at the MCV campus.
Federal
Research Public Access Act (proposed)
http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/issues/frpaa/index.shtml
H.R.4004
-- Federal Research Public Access Act of 2012
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr4004ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr4004ih.pdf
"FRPAA would require that 11 U.S. government
agencies with annual extramural research expenditures
over $100 million make manuscripts of journal
articles stemming from research funded by that agency
publicly available via the Internet. "
DOAJ: Directory of Open
Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/
There are now 7,607 journals in the
directory.
"Quality: For a journal to be included it
should exercise quality control on submitted papers through an
editor, editorial board and/or a peer-review
system. "
For authors-search open
access and hybrid journals here
NOVEMBER, 2011 UPDATE-- the
DOAJ has removed the hybrid journal search function, but until restored
it can be accessed via the Internet
Archive here
but will eventually be out-of-date
Currently 3,723 journals are searchable
at article level.
As of today (March, 2012) 782,879
articles are searchable in the DOAJ service.
BioMed
Central
http://www.biomedcentral.com/home/
Publisher of 234 peer-reviewed open access
journals
Thanks to VCU Libraries membership, VCU faculty
get a 15% discount
to author fees
for publishing their work here.
Work
published with BioMed Central in the last 12 months by
Researchers
at Virginia Commonwealth University
http://www.biomedcentral.com/inst/39656
Hindawi Publishing
Corporation
http://www.hindawi.com/
Hindawi is a rapidly growing academic publisher
with more than 300 Open Access journals covering a wide range
of academic disciplines. Thanks to VCU Libraries
membership, VCU faculty get a complete waiver of author
fees
for publishing their work here.
Journals
by subject
http://www.hindawi.com/subjects/
Recent
articles published by VCU authors in Hindawi open access journals
http://www.hindawi.com/institutions/vcu.edu/
ArXiv.org
http://arxiv.org/
Open access to 745,684 e-prints in Physics,
Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology,
Quantitative Finance and Statistics
ArXiv
Business Model Planning Update (July, 2011)
http://arxiv.org/help/support/arxiv_busplan_July2011
OAISTER
http://www.oclc.org/oaister/
OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources.
OAIster offers more than 25 million records
representing digital resources from more than 1,100 contributorsors.
OAISTER search is here
http://oaister.worldcat.org/
Public Library of Science
(PLOS )
http://www.plos.org/
7 online peer-reviewed scientific and medical
journals
Open J-Gate
http://www.openjgate.com
Indexes articles from 8926 Open Access Journals
(6029 Peer-Reviewed) .
LivRE
http://livre.cnen.gov.br/Inicial.asp
Portal to free access journals on the Internet
- 4,650 titles
OpenDOAR: Directory
of Open Access Repositories
http://www.opendoar.org/
Typically OpenDOAR lists publication repositories,
as this is the basis for most repositories.
However, OpenDOAR also lists other types,
for example of images or data-sets, particularly
where these have metadata or documentation
sufficient to make the material re-usable.
Approximately 2,000 repositories are included.
Selected titles from these publishers charge
authors a fee to permit open access.
NIH and other grant providers often allow
grant funds to pay for publication fees.
Here are a few of the publishers with current
initiatives:
American
Chemical Society AuthorChoice
American Physical
Society Free to Read
Wiley-Blackwell’s
Online Open
BMJ Unlocked
Cambridge
Open Option
Karger Author’s
Choice
Oxford Open
Springer
Open Choice
Taylor
& Francis iOpenAccess
Wiley
Online Open
ROMEO:
Publisher Copyright Policies
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
Look up your prospective publishing journal
and see what they allow
Beall's
List of Predatory, Open-Access Publishers
by Jeffrey Beall 2012 Edition
http://metadata.posterous.com/tag/predatoryopenaccessjournals
Predatory, open-access publishers are those
that unprofessionally exploit the author-pays model
of open-access publishing (Gold OA) for their
own profit. Typically, these publishers spam
professional email lists, broadly soliciting
article submissions for the clear purpose of gaining
additional income. Operating essentially as
vanity presses, these publishers typically have a low
article acceptance threshold, with a false-front
or non-existent peer review process.
Journal
Citation Reports- Science Edition (VCU
eID needed for off-campus access)
http://library.vcu.edu/search/885
Coverage: (2003-)
Provides citation data on 5,700+ journals
including highest impact journals, most frequently used journals.
Journal
Citation Reports - Social Sciences Edition
http://library.vcu.edu/search/886
Coverage: (2003-)
Provides citation data on 1,700+ journals
including highest impact journals, most frequently used journals.
JCR
Tutorial
http://www.isinet.com/tutorials/jcrweb3/
Articles about
journal impact factors (from
11 databases)
http://tinyurl.com/6zef5zb
Institutional
Open Access Funds: Now Is the Time (May,
2010)
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000375
Open
Access to Scholarly Publications at Princeton
(Sept, 2011)
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/appel/open-access-scholarly-publications-princeton
The faculty at Princeton University unanimously
supported (Sept 19, 2011) that
when professors publish their academic work
in the form of articles in journals or conferences,
they should not sign a publication contract
that prevents the authors from also putting a copy
of their paper on their own web page or in
their university's public-access repository.
Create Change
http://www.createchange.org/
"This website will help you understand the
changing landscape and how it affects you
and your research. It also offers practical
ways to look out for your own interests as a researcher."
Open
Access Directory wiki
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page
Unanimous
Faculty Votes for for University OA policies
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Unanimous_faculty_votes
Lists the institution, the date of the vote,
a link to the policy, the type of faculty body voting
(e.g. full faculty, faculty senate, faculty
within a division or department), and the type of policy
(e.g. OA mandate, encouragement, etc.).
University OA
Policies
http://roarmap.eprints.org/
comprehensive worldwide list of university
OA policies (not limited to policies adopted by unanimous faculty votes)
Creative Commons
(an alternative to traditional copyright)
http://creativecommons.org/
VCU
Libraries Recommended Sources on Copyright & Author Rights
http://www.library.vcu.edu/scholarcomm/copyright.html
Open Journal Systems:
Public Knowledge Project
http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs
Publish your own Open Access Journal
"OJS is open source software made freely available
to journals worldwide
for the purpose of making open access publishing
a viable option for more
journals, as open access can increase a journal's
readership as well as its
contribution to the public good on a global
scale"
eLife:
Can a Top-Tier Journal Run Without Professional Help?
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2011/12/01/elife-can-a-top-tier-journal-run-without-professional-help/