OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING

Presented By:-
Mohini Garg
Research Scholar
CT University
Supervised By:-
Dr. Amandeep Kaur Gill
OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING
 What Is Open Access Publishing?
 Open Access Publishing is the
practice of providing on-line
access(Publication) to scientific
information that is free of charge
to the reader and free of most
copyright and licensing
restrictions.
 It is a kind of access, not a kind
of business model, license, or
content.
 It eliminates price an approval
restrictions and assures the best
possible access.
 Un restricted (copyright) unlimited
online access for academic
articles.
 Open-access resources are a treasure of knowledge that aids
researchers in many ways; to have free access to scholarly
journals via the internet, and more and more scholars are
reaping the benefits of these resources, which encouraged the
open access publishing concept
 Open access is a broad international movement that seeks to
grant free and open online access to academic information,
such as publications and data.
 A publication is defined as 'open access' when there are no
financial, legal or technical barriers to accessing it - that is to
say, when anyone can read, download, copy, distribute, print,
search for and search within the information, or use it in
education or in any other way within the legal agreements.
 The principles of open access are set out in the Berlin
Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and
Humanities (2003).
“Our mission of disseminating knowledge is only half
complete if the information is not made widely and
readily available to society." - Berlin Declaration.’’
WHY OPEN ACCESS?
 To increase visibility and fast access
 Promotes international and inter-disciplinary
cooperation
 Publicly-funded research results should be publicly
available
 Greater research efficiency results through early
discussion of results.
“ OA is a newer form of scholarly publishing. Many
OA journals comply with well established peer-
review processes and maintain high publishing
standards.”
BENEFITS OF OPEN ACCESS
 Publishing your work in open access helps to establish your
societal identity in the field of research.
 Open access increases the visibility of your research by
allowing
more people to read and download it, which helps to
increase your citations.
 It aids in inter-disciplinary research and encourages more
people to think outside the box.
 Open access publishing enhances scientific knowledge by
providing free access; it helps to strengthen research.
 Open access articles are downloaded and cited by many
people, enhancing an individual's work visibility and impact.
 Open access creates a new pathway for discovery in the
digital environment.
TYPES OF OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING
 Gold Open Access Publishing :-
Gold open access publishing indicates that the final article will be free
and fully available to everyone, however this also follows a proper
process for which the author has to pay some amount of fees known
as APC – Article Publishing Cost. This cost is used for the publishing
works required by the publisher to publish an article. This is one of the
most open, least restrictive types of open access. By publishing
through this, the author can increase the outreach of their research
work.
 Green Open Access Publishing :-
This is when the accepted article is first deposited into a subject-
based repository or an institution’s repository, which then often
specifies how the article may be used. This is simpler words means
Self-Archiving, it is the practice of archiving an earlier version of your
manuscript in repositories and online of the article and then publishing
it. This saves the author from the APC.
ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
 Gold Open Access Publishing
 Advantages:
 Increased Publication and usage
 Retention of copyright
 Faster Impact
 Disadvantages:
 It is expensive
 Green Open Access Publishing
 Advantages:
 It costs less or sometimes even free
 The author can choose a subscription based journal for the article while
also making the article open access
 Disadvantages:
 The embargo period is lengthy
 Re-use rights not as extensive
OTHER TYPES OF OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING

 DIAMOND OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING:-

This refers to journals that provide free access for readers, but also for research
authors to publish in. Although the name is slightly deceiving, diamond open
access journals are supported by institutions or other infrastructures, hence they
may not have a high-impact factor. It is an open-access publisher of peer-reviewed
journals. Diamond Scientific Publishing is dedicated to promoting open scholarly
research all around the world. Diamond Open Access does not charge authors any
fees; rather, funding from outside sources covers the costs of publishing.
 HYBRID OPEN ACCES PUBLISHING:-
A hybrid open access publishing model is one in which subscription-based
journals allow authors to immediately make individual articles gold open access
upon payment of an article publication charge. Although the processing fees may
be higher than that of a regular open access journal, it may be worth the effort if
your article fits the journal’s aims and scope perfectly.
 BLACK OPEN ACCESSING :-
This is an illegal open access model, where although the article is not openly
licensed, it is still shared by illicit services that offer free access to scientific
publications or other content (e.g., Sci-Hub).
HOW DO WE IDENTIFY POLICIES
OF DIFFERENT JOURNALS?
 Open access tools are the ones which
aggregates data from various websites and help
the user by pointing out the information
obtained in one place.
 Similarly, there is software which aggregates
journal policies and what the final policy of the
article would be used.
 To know more we have a database which
aggregates all the publisher policies and tells us
about various copyright, self-archiving policies
of academic journals.
PREPRINTS, POST-
PRINTS,PUBLISHERS VERSION
AND SELF-ARCHIVING
 Preprints- Works before they have undergone peer
review.
 Post-prints- Sometimes called the Author’s Accepted
Manuscript (AAM), these are works that have
undergone peer review nut have not been formally
formatted.
 Publisher’s version- Official versions of works that
have been formatted and posted on publisher’s
websites.
 Self-archiving- Subscription publishers usually require
authors to transfer copyright or grant them an
exclusive right to publish their work.
SHERPA/ROMEO
 SHERPA/RoMEO- (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research
Preservation and Access / Rights Metadata for Open Archiving)
 Sherpa Romeo is an online resource that aggregates and
analyses publisher open access policies from around the world
and provides summaries of publisher copyright and open access
archiving policies on a journal-by-journal basis.
 It is an online resource that aggregates and presents publisher
and journal open access policies from around the world.
 Every registered publisher or journal held in Romeo is carefully
reviewed and analysed by our specialist team who provide
summaries of self-archiving permissions and conditions of rights
given to authors on a journal-by-journal basis where possible.
 The policy information provided through this service primarily
aims to serve the academic research community.
INTERFACE
 Sherpa also serves other products for researcher
to find other certain things:-
 SHERPA JULIET:-
Sherpa Juliet is a searchable database and single
focal point of up-to-date information concerning
research funders' policies and their requirements
on open access, publication and data archiving.
 SHERPA FACTS :-
Sherpa Fact checks if compliance with funder
open access policies can be achieved with a
particular journal. Sherpa Fact is an online
resource that combines and interprets data from
Sherpa Romeo, Sherpa Juliet and other sources
to provide clear guidance to researchers.
 PREDATORY JOURNALS
 Predatory Publishing refers to opportunistic publishing where the
publisher uses author’s research work and money to publish in a poor
rated journal.
 It is basically the publisher charges the money from the authors, as it
recognizes the need of publications for the authors.
 Such publications are not listed and the authors time, efforts and
money is wasted on the other hand the publishers earn a lot of money
taking advantage of the need of publications for researchers.
 The Predatory Publications do not have an editorial board and do not
have peer review system due to this the work of the author is published
after charging a hefty amount from the authors but the work is not
recognized as such journals are not listed anywhere and hence no
credits are given to the author.
 The phenomenon of "open access predatory publishers" was first
noticed by Jeffrey Beall, when he described "publishers that are ready
to publish any article for payment.
CHARACTERISTICS OF
PREPRATORY JOURNALS
 PJs invite authors via emails and social media
platforms to paper submission.
 No editor/ editorial board or peer review,
Quick acceptance and publish articles.
 No editorial boards or fake members on the
board.
 Confusing journal websites, which are having
dead links, misspellings, and grammatical
errors.
 Make unauthorized use of licensed images.
 Republish papers already published in other
journals.
 Huge publication charges.
 Display fake impact factors.
 Display fake claims of its content indexed in
indexing services.
 Provide no copy edition or proofreading of
submissions.
SOFTWARE TOOLS TO IDENTIFY
PREPRATORY JOURNALS
 Center for publication ethics (CPE) was established in
Savitaribai Pule Pune University, Pune (SPPU)
 It keeps watch on journals without quality
 UGC keeps watch on publishing the list of quality journals from
time to time
 UGC has given the list of entitled UGC-CARE for publishing
research papers
 It has two parts:-
 Group 1- includes all the indian journals mainly from social
sciences, humanities, arts, culture, languages and indian
knowledge systems.
 Group 2- includes journals all across the disciplines listed with
Web of Science. It has citation Index source publication in social
science, arts and humanities.
JOURNAL FINDER/JOURNAL
SUGGETION TOOLS
 JANE: Journal Article Name Estimator
 Jane is a tool that help scholar to find
suitable journals, articles and authors.
 Jane is a platform that compares your
document to millions of documents to
find the best matching journals,
authors or articles.
 The resource is web-based and allows
users to input keywords, abstract text,
or author names and view related
articles based on user-supplied terms
 The JANE website achieves its goal of
journal matching, journal comparison,
and relevant author retrieval.
 Website-https://
[Link]/[Link]
SPRINGER JOURNAL FINDER
 SPRINGER JOURNAL FINDER
 The Springer Journal
Suggester is an academic
research tool that enables
users to select the best-
suited journal for their
research. The automated
process can enable journal
selection from a database
of over 2,600 Springer
publications.
 Website-https://
[Link].c
om/
ELSEVIER JOURNAL FINDER
 ELSEVIER JOURNAL
FINDER
 Elsevier Journal Finder
helps to find journals
that could be best
suited for publishing
the scientific article.
 It is required to consult
the journal's Aims and
Scope for further
guidance.
 Website -
[Link]
CURRENT STATE OF OPEN ACCESS

 Over 3,700 open access journals listed by

the Directory of Open Access journals.
 Over 1280 repositories listed by the
Directory of Open Access Repositories.
 New mandates and policies being
announced regularly.
 Publishers engaging with open access in a
variety of ways.
 Projects looking at usage of Open Access
material.