Assignment 3: Types of Open Access publishing

About

Purpose:
Familiarise participants with different types of Open Access publishing.

Learning outcomes:
Upon completion of this assignment, participants will be able to:

  • Analyze different types of Open Access publishing

Estimated duration:
120min

Introduction

Open Access publishing is the widely adopted ideal that all should have equitable access to the information generated by research.

There are six different types of OA publishing currently recognized. Below is an overview of the different types.


To prepare for the in-person workshop, listen to the following discussion between researchers, journal editors, and EMBO Open Science professionals on publishing, the move to more Open Access, and the future of journal articles:

The EMBO Podcast - A stepping stone to an Open Science Future
Runtime: 50 minutes.

For data from a Swedish University on Open Access publishing across disciplines (including SciLifelab!) watch this recorded presentation by Maria Almbro at Stockholm University:

Navigating the Research Data Landscape: Publication Practices at a Swedish University.
Runtime: 30 minutes.

If you would like more in-depth information on Open Access publishing, check out the following article:

Piwowar H, Priem J, Larivière V, Alperin JP, Matthias L, Norlander B, Farley A, West J, Haustein S. 2018. The state of OA: a large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles. PeerJ 6:e4375 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4375

Assignment

Bring your answers to the in-person workshop!

Part 1

Choose two OA publishing types (Gold, Green, Hybrid, Bronze, Diamond, Black) and answer the following ten questions.

Tip

To find articles, compare a society journal and an Elsevier or Nature journal in the DDLS field. You can also use the search engine OA.mg!

Questions
  1. List which two publishing types you have chosen
  1. Link an article published with the first OA type
  1. What is the advantage of publishing with this type?
  1. Link an article published with the second OA type
  1. What is the advantage of publishing with this type?
  1. How could you tell what OA type these articles are published with?
  1. Who paid for publishing of these two articles?
  1. Can you access the data used to build these articles?
  1. Could a retired plumber in Borås access these articles?
  1. Could a student at your host university access these articles?

Part 2

What access type was the most recent paper you (or someone in your research group) were an author on?