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Open Access Oxford Week 11-15 June 2018

In Week 8 Bodleian Libraries will be running daily events across the university which look at all aspects of open access publishing.

Join us to discuss developments in research dissemination and scholarly communication, policy and practice.  With a mix of local and visiting speakers, we look forward to welcoming representatives from Research England, the National Institute for Health Research, JISC, Altmetric and the creators of ‘author copyright’ game The Publishing Trap.

We also have a special event on 14 June – ‘Publishers, papers and peer review’, led by Professor Alis Oancea (Oxford University Department of Education), and exploring publication strategies, predatory journals, open practice and data, social science repositories, responsible research metrics, and OA policies. Speakers include leaders from academia, publishing, and preprint servers SocArxiv and SSRN.

All events are FREE, and open to all University staff and students, especially academics and researchers, research students, research support staff and librarians. Please follow the links to book a place online.

The REF policy for open access: why and what? (Monday 11 June 12.30-13.30)
Claire Fraser (Higher Education Policy Adviser, Research England). The policymaker’s perspective on the implementation of open access publication requirements for REF 2021.
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Help! I’m an author, get me out of here (Monday 11 June 14.00-15.00)
Sally Rumsey (Head of Scholarly Communication and Research Data Management, Bodleian Libraries). Calling Oxford authors to share views on evolving research dissemination at this repeat of Sally’s January presentation.
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Play the ‘Publishing Trap’ board game (Tuesday 12 June 11.30-13.00)
Jane Secker and Chris Morrison (both from UK Copyright Literacy). Come prepared to play this educational board game – aimed at early career researchers and academics – exploring the impact of scholarly communications choices, with its copyright expert creators.
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NIHR Open Access policy and progress (Tuesday 12 June 14.00-15.00)
Justin Riordan-Jones (Head of Systems and Information (Research), Department of Health & Social Care). An overview of OA policy and practicalities from the National Institute for Health Research, a major funder of research at Oxford.
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Openness and humanities (Wednesday 13 June 11.30-12.15)
Pip Willcox (Head of the Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries). The long history of openness in humanities.
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Digital theses and open access (Wednesday 13 June 12.15-13.00).
Sarah Barkla (Institutional Repository Librarian, Bodleian Libraries). The benefits of making your doctoral thesis available through ORA.
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Latest developments in altmetrics (Wednesday 13 June 14.00-15.00)
Jean Liu (Head of Product Development, Altmetric). Introducing altmetrics and open access, recent developments and tips for using Altmetric data.
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Publishers, papers and peer review (Thursday 14 June 10.45-15.45)
Led by Professor Alis Oancea (Oxford University Department of Education). Social Science focus but open to all. led by Professor Alis Oancea (Oxford University Department of Education), and exploring publication strategies, predatory journals, open practice and data, social science repositories, responsible research metrics, and OA policies. Speakers include leaders from academia, publishing, and preprint servers SocArxiv and SSRN. 10.45am-3.45pm, Manor Road Building. Programme/booking

The EU and open access: OpenAire and Horizon 2020 (Friday 15 June 11.00-12.00)
Frank Manista (European Open Science Manager, JISC). The new OpenAire project and its role in supporting European Union open access policy.
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Open access: a publisher’s perspective (Friday 15 June 13.00-16.00)
Katie Pryce, Lucy Oates, and Alison Jones (Open Access team, Oxford University Press). A publisher’s perspective on the open access landscape, recent industry developments, and the development of open access monograph publishing.
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Open Access Oxford – What’s happening?

Bodleian Libraries continue to run monthly briefings on open access publishing and Oxford’s position. These briefings are aimed at researchers and academics, research support staff, administrators and librarians. Key topics include:

• Introduction – What is open access?
• Key terms – Gold, Green, APCs
• How to find out about research council or funder requirements
• How to find out what your publisher will allow
• Green route – how to deposit in ORA
• Gold route and how to claim for APCs
• HEFCE policy for next REF
• New developments, including ORCID researcher IDs
• Where to get more help

Our next sessions are on Thursday 31 May and Thursday 21st June
Each session is free, but online booking is required. To book a place on any upcoming Open Access Oxford briefing go to:
Bodleian iSkills: Open Access Oxford – What’s Happening?

We end Trinity Term with Open Access Oxford Week – a full week of events to bring you information, discussion and help on all things to do with Open Access.

Go to Open Access Oxford Week 2018 for the full programme in Week 8

In order to be eligible for the next REF, the final peer-reviewed version of journal articles and conference papers (with an ISSN) must be deposited in an open access repository within three months of acceptance for publication. HEFCE’s requirements are designed to ‘increase substantially the amount of scholarly material that is made available in an open-access form’.

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Published an article? Have you used ‘act on acceptance’ to comply with the REF?

Open Access Oxford logoIn order to be eligible for the next REF, the final peer-reviewed version of journal articles and conference papers (with an ISSN) must be deposited in an open access repository within three months of acceptance for publication. In Oxford this means that you need to use our ‘Act on Acceptance‘ service to upload your author-accepted manuscript to the Oxford Research Archive (ORA) within 3 months of publication.    Those funded by UK Research Councils, Wellcome Trust or charities may also have additional open access obligations.

All this sound confusing?  If so, not to worry, just come along to one of our Open Access Oxford briefing.  Our briefings last 1 hour and are aimed at researchers and academics, research support staff, administrators and librarians. Key topics include:

  • What is open access?
  • Key open access terms – Gold Access, Green Access, APCs
  • REF requirements and how to comply
  • How to find out about research council or funder requirements
  • How to find out what your publisher will allow
  • Green route and how to deposit in the Oxford Research Archive using ‘Act on Acceptance’
  • Gold route and how to claim for APCs
  • New developments, including ORCID researcher IDs
  • Where to get more help

Briefing take place monthly, with the next session on Our next session is on Tuesday 23 May 14.00-15.00 at the Manor Road Building.  The session is free, but booking is required.

Calling research staff – getting to grips with Open Access requirement for the REF and for research funders

All researchers need to be aware of their oblibation to make their journal articles and conference papers available on an open access basis in order to be eligible for the next REF.   To comply you need to use Oxford’s ‘Act on Acceptance‘ service to deposit the final peer-reviewed version of journal articles and conference papers (with an ISSN) in the Oxford Research Archive (ORA)  within three months of acceptance for publication.

Many researchers will also have open access obligations as part of their research funding from for example UK Research Councils, Wellcome Trust and charities.

If you’re not sure what to do, then why not come along to one of the Bodleian Libraries’ monthly briefings for Oxford researchers and staff.  These briefings are aimed at researchers and academics, research support staff, administrators and librarians and cover:

  • What is open access?
  • Key ‘Open Access’ terms – Gold, Green, APCs
  • How to comply with the REF requirement
  • How to find out about research council or funder requirements
  • How to find out what your publisher will allow
  • Green route – how to deposit in ORA
  • Gold route and how to claim for APCs
  • New developments, including ORCID researcher IDs
  • Where to get more help

Our next session is on Tuesday 31 January 14:00-15:00.  > Book a a place on  iSkills: Open Access Oxford – what’s happening?  (booking essential)

Your research publications, Open Access and the REF

From 1 April any journal article or conference paper that you wish to include in your REF submission must be made available on an open access basis within 3 months of acceptance.     Likewise many research funders now require research outputs to be made available open access.

If you’re not sure how to make your publications open access, come along to our Bodleian iSkills: Open Access Oxford briefing on Tuesday 1 March 11.00-12.00.  We will be covering:

  • What is open access? And what do we mean by the gold route, green route and APCs?
  • The HEFCE Open Access policy for the REF and how to make sure that you comply
  • How to find out about research council or funder requirements
  • How to find out what your publisher will allow
  • How  to deposit your publications in the ORA repository for the REF and Green route compliance
  • How to make your publication open access via the Gold route and how to claim for APCs
  • New developments, including ORCID researcher IDs
  • Where to get more help

This workshop is only open to current members of Oxford University.  It is likely to be very popular so online booking is essential.

Bibliometrics and measuring research impact – a practical introduction

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Get to grips with measuring research impact using bibliometrics at Bodleian Libraries bibliometrics workshops in 5th week.  These sessions are intended as a practical introduction to tracking citations and will cover the h-index, journal impact factors and how to measure impact for individuals and institutions…

Bibliometrics I: Who’s citing you? will introduce citation tracking as a technique for finding out who is citing your work using Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar.   We will include an explanation of what citation tracking is and how it works and practical opportunities to track citations using the three tools and to compare the pros and cons of each.   This session will take place on Wednesday 15 November 2.00-3.00. Please book you place online.

This will be followed by WISER: Bibliometrics II – tools of the trade which will focus on using Web of Science and Scopus to find the most highly cited journals,  to calculate your h-index and to measure the research impact of institutions and coutries.  In addition we will look at how to find “hot” papers and authors and introduce  “Essential Science Indicators”.

Bibliometrics II – tools of the trade  is aimed at academics, researchers, research postgraduates, administrators and librarians in the Sciences.      If you are unfamiliar with citation tracking please attend Bibliometrics I: Who’s citing you? first.   The session will take place on Wednesday 15 November 3.15-4.15.  Please book your place online.