Open Access – Lichtenberger Engineering Library

Oct 26 2021

Library to Help You Publish for FREE in Open Access

Posted on October 26, 2021October 26, 2021 by Kari Kozak

UI corresponding authors can now publish their journal articles Open Access and free of cost to them with 8 different publishers! The University Libraries have entered into “transformative agreements” covering the cost if you want your article to be open access.

American Chemical Society(ACS): UI corresponding authors can publish open access in any ACS journals without a fee. Under this agreement, UI authors can publish 34 articles per year OA, it is part of a first come pool and not unlimited.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): Any UI corresponding author can publish open access in ACM journals with no fee. The publisher’s website contains additional information
Cambridge University Press (CUP): There will be no charge for UI corresponding authors who publish open access in CUP’s gold (40 titles) and hybrid journals (330 titles). See CUP’s announcement for more details.
Cogitatio Press: UI corresponding authors can publish in Cogitatio’s four journals without a cost. This announcement provides more detail.
Microbiology Society: Articles published in this society’s journals will be OA by default for UI corresponding authors.
PLOS Medicine and PLOS Biology: UI corresponding authors can publish in these two PLOS journals with no fee. PLOS’ announcement provides more detail.
Royal Society: No-fee OA publishing in the society’s nine journals for UI corresponding authors. Royal Society’s read and publish page contains more information.
The Electrochemical Society (ECS): UI authors can publish open access in ECS journals free of charge.

This will not only broaden access to UI articles, but will meet the requirement of some granting agencies to publish OA without embargo. These articles can be immediately read by anyone, anywhere, without the paywalls that traditionally accompany academic journals.

Learn More at: https://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/c.php?g=1119367&p=8163705

These programs are only for new papers/articles. It is not retroactive to previously published

If you have any questions, please contact Kari Kozak (kari-kozak@uiowa.edu)

Oct 26 2021

ORCiD and Open Access

Posted on October 26, 2021October 21, 2021 by Amanda Bartel

What is ORCID and why does it matter to Open Access?

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a personal identifier that helps to make sure that work gets attributed to the correct person. To learn more about ORCID and to get started with your own, visit ORCID @ The University of Iowa.

What does this have to do with Open Access?

ORCID is founded on principles of open access and works to build networks between researchers through expanding access. They back this up in practice, since their own software is open access.

Have you ever started searching for an article by searching an author’s name only to find in the results that there are multiple authors by the same name, or can’t tell if the author of two papers is the same person because their associated institution has changed? By creating unique searchable ID’s for researchers, ORCID helps overcome both of these problems. If properly maintained, ORCID records can also be full lists of work that a researcher has done. If you can’t access a paper because it is behind a paywall, check the author’s ORCID! You may find they wrote a similar paper that is published in an open access journal.

Want even more information? Watch this short video for more explanation. If you are ready to get started, use the UI ORCID Planter tool to claim your ID today!

Oct 25 2021

Celebrate Open Access Week with us!

Posted on October 25, 2021October 21, 2021 by Amanda Bartel

Happy Open Access Week!

What is Open Access?

According to UNESCO, Open Access is “free access to information and unrestricted use of electronic resources for everyone.” The hope of Open Access is that increased access to research will lead to more collaborative projects and that the removal barriers will create a more equitable research environment.

We’ll be putting up mini blogs every day, so check in here to learn about ORCID, Open Educational Resources, and more. Also follow along on our Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter so you don’t miss anything!

Works Cited:

What is Open Access? | UNESCO

Oct 23 2020

It’s Open Access Week!

Posted on October 23, 2020October 23, 2020 by Carol Johnk

It’s Open Access Week!

So, what exactly does that mean?

Open Access (OA) refers to the free, online availability of research articles. That helps researchers so they don’t hit a paywall – suddenly get to a point in their research when they are required to pay in order to access the material.

There are three types of OA models, so when you are ready to publish it is good to know which model the OA journal uses. The three models include gold OA, green OA, and hybrid OA. The gold OA model is an ideal publishing model where publishers make articles available for free immediately on the journal’s website. The big advantage of the gold OA model is that the library would not have to pay a subscription fee because an author processing charge (APC) would cover the cost. The green OA model allows authors to archive the articles to author’s professional website or institutional repository with or without an embargo period. It is a mediocre alternative to the gold OA model. The hybrid OA model is the least preferable model in which subscription-based journals allow authors to make individual articles gold open access immediately on payment of an APC. But the disadvantage of the hybrid OA is that both authors and libraries would result in double-paying for the same content

Although academic libraries, global/local coalitions and some academic societies have been advocating OA for a decade, funder mandates are the key to moving the OA wheel forward. In 2008, the National Institutes of Health mandates research papers describing research funded by NIH must be available to the public free through PubMed Central within 12 months of publication. In 2018, a group of national research funders, European and international organizations and charitable foundations launched the Plan S (formally called cOAlition S) requiring full and immediate OA to the research publications. As a result, we see several engineering publishers such as IEEE, ASME, SAE etc., have started offering OA publishing options on a small number of their journals. Among the limited number of OA journals, the green OA and hybrid OA models are the mainstream while there are fewer fully OA journals than the journals in the green OA and hybrid OA models. For example, as of today, IEEE has about 20 fully OA journals while most of its journals and conference proceedings are subscription-based. However, some publishers such as John Wiley & Sons Inc. (Wiley) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) embrace the gold OA model. In June 2020, Wiley and IET announced their OA publishing partnership to transition the IET journal program to gold OA beginning in January 2021.

It is believed more engineering publishers will embrace the gold OA model or at least the green OA model when more funders set strict requirements on research publications to be freely available in a timely manner.

Here is information for some engineering publishers’ OA publishing policy.

IEEE https://open.ieee.org/

ASME https://www.asme.org/publications-submissions/journals/information-for-authors/open-access

ASCE https://ascelibrary.org/journals

SAE https://www.sae.org/publications/journals/resources

IET https://www.theiet.org/publishing/publishing-with-iet-journals/open-access-publishing-with-the-iet/

References

SPARC Open Access https://sparcopen.org/open-access/

Plan S https://www.coalition-s.org/

17 June 2020: The Institution of Engineering and Technology and Wiley Announce Open Access Publishing Partnership https://www.theiet.org/media/press-releases/press-releases-2020/17-june-2020-the-institution-of-engineering-and-technology-and-wiley-announce-open-access-publishing-partnership/

Guest Blogger: Qianjin (Marina) Zhang

Oct 03 2017

Open Access Panel – Getting Published in Science Journals!

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Carol Johnk

Getting Published in Open Access Science Journals – A Panel Discussion

Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2:00-3:00, Illinois Room, IMU

Are you a graduate student, post doctoral scholar, faculty member or researcher? Interested in learning more about Open Access journals and the steps you need to get published? You won’t want to miss this informative panel discussion!

Join the panel of editors, authors, and librarians for a discussion on what it takes to get published in an open access journal. The panel will feature Leonardo Marchini, Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive & Community Dentistry and Open Access Fund recipient; Daniel Diekema, Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases and open access proponent; Hans Joachim Lehmler, Professor, Occupational and Environmental Health and current PLOS ONE editorial board member; and Carmelita Pickett, AUL for Collections & Scholarly Communications. Mahrya Carncross, Scholarly Communications Librarian, will moderate the panel.

Learn about identifying key open journals in your field, developing manuscripts, the submission process, and getting your article processing charges paid. Experts will discuss the benefits and challenges of working with open access journals.

This discussion is free to attend, but please register here to attend. For more information, visit the University of Iowa events calendar. Information on International Open Access Week – October 23-29, 2017 – is available on the Open Access web page.

Be sure to mark your calendar for the panel discussion on October 10, 2:00-3:00 p.m., Illinois Room at the IMU and for International Open Access Week, October 23-29, 2017!

The University of Iowa Libraries

Lichtenberger Engineering Library

Category: Open Access

Library to Help You Publish for FREE in Open Access

ORCiD and Open Access

Celebrate Open Access Week with us!

It’s Open Access Week!

It’s Open Access Week!

Open Access Panel – Getting Published in Science Journals!