WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:06.060 Sue Maszaros: ready Randy roll. 2 00:00:06.210 --> 00:00:07.859 Jenny Mills: Yes, let's get started. 3 00:00:09.960 --> 00:00:10.469 Okay. 4 00:00:11.550 --> 00:00:13.469 Sue Maszaros: i'm going to kick us off and. 5 00:00:16.170 --> 00:00:32.220 Sue Maszaros: You know our discussion today is open access and what it means for faculty scholarship and you know part of this is just trying to give give everybody a background for what open access is how it impacts us here at belmont and. 6 00:00:33.270 --> 00:00:38.220 Sue Maszaros: You know, thinking about our future as well, and. 7 00:00:40.590 --> 00:00:42.450 Sue Maszaros: Dr Jenny okay. 8 00:00:44.370 --> 00:00:52.020 Sue Maszaros: So here we are assuming missouri's the library director and you want to introduce yourself Jenny Courtney. 9 00:00:54.450 --> 00:00:57.990 Courtney F (she/her): Sure i'm going to use on the asset management librarian here at belmont. 10 00:00:59.070 --> 00:01:02.250 Jenny Mills: You know Jenny meals, the coordinator of research services. 11 00:01:05.220 --> 00:01:12.240 Sue Maszaros: So some of what we're going to cover today, first the economics of publishing and the cereals crisis. 12 00:01:13.980 --> 00:01:17.550 Sue Maszaros: defining what open access means it's kind of the. 13 00:01:19.050 --> 00:01:30.090 Sue Maszaros: Open access yeah, we have to make a little bit clear routes to open access and then evaluating journals and publishers and how the library can help and support. 14 00:01:33.510 --> 00:01:35.010 Sue Maszaros: So you know. 15 00:01:36.330 --> 00:01:38.850 Sue Maszaros: What what exactly is the problem. 16 00:01:40.230 --> 00:01:45.990 Sue Maszaros: So in the scholarly publishing world. 17 00:01:47.160 --> 00:01:48.180 Sue Maszaros: We have this. 18 00:01:49.200 --> 00:02:07.230 Sue Maszaros: construct where faculty who are supported by the University and then produce research and that sign over freely to publishers you sign your copyright anybody's published anything knows you sign your copyright. 19 00:02:08.040 --> 00:02:15.330 Sue Maszaros: over to the publisher so now you you can't even publish your own you know put your material somewhere in a repository or whatever. 20 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:20.760 Sue Maszaros: You know people's career path, obviously in higher education. 21 00:02:22.020 --> 00:02:25.260 Sue Maszaros: or dependent upon this whole publishing process. 22 00:02:27.330 --> 00:02:31.350 Sue Maszaros: faculty members volunteer their time as editors. 23 00:02:32.970 --> 00:02:50.010 Sue Maszaros: And editorial board members for these journals and commercial publisher hers find themselves in this like we call it enviable position of selling research which they neither produce nor paid for to a high demand market and so. 24 00:02:51.570 --> 00:02:54.930 Sue Maszaros: Essentially you know locking out. 25 00:02:56.250 --> 00:03:00.510 Sue Maszaros: students and researchers and the tho those who can't afford it. 26 00:03:02.010 --> 00:03:06.600 Sue Maszaros: Anyway, so that's sort of the crux of the of the publishing cycle. 27 00:03:09.180 --> 00:03:10.830 Sue Maszaros: So you know. 28 00:03:11.910 --> 00:03:20.970 Sue Maszaros: Defining the cereals crisis, so what is the cereals crisis and it's the skyrocketing cost of journal subscriptions the have. 29 00:03:22.260 --> 00:03:25.650 Sue Maszaros: gone far past the rates of inflation and so. 30 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:35.730 Sue Maszaros: We see you know from 1986 to 2003 the price per subscription increase 215% was outrageous. 31 00:03:36.750 --> 00:03:40.920 Sue Maszaros: subscription prices have put university libraries under financial pressure. 32 00:03:42.750 --> 00:03:47.310 Sue Maszaros: At the same time walking at conditions and scientists from personal subscriptions as well. 33 00:03:50.190 --> 00:03:57.180 Sue Maszaros: As the concept in of the big deal, which is where you, you know publishers will bundle. 34 00:03:58.530 --> 00:04:16.200 Sue Maszaros: journals together, and so you just want one, but you have to buy tend to get that one, and then you have significantly impacted library collections budgets and increased vendor profits and you know budgets just can't keep up and will show that here, in just a second. 35 00:04:17.490 --> 00:04:21.180 Sue Maszaros: Some of the headlines that we see are you know. 36 00:04:22.500 --> 00:04:26.760 Sue Maszaros: This is not just something that you know smaller institutions. 37 00:04:29.130 --> 00:04:32.010 Sue Maszaros: are having issue with but. 38 00:04:33.300 --> 00:04:40.140 Sue Maszaros: it's also these large research libraries are also struggling to maintain these costs. 39 00:04:41.670 --> 00:04:56.070 Sue Maszaros: and give you an illustration of this so we see you know, the average 2020 price for different scientific disciplines, so the average price per journal title for Chemistry is $6,300 so. 40 00:04:57.840 --> 00:05:06.180 Sue Maszaros: You know you, you have you know five titles and you're paying $30,000 so it's just illustrates, you know. 41 00:05:07.980 --> 00:05:13.380 Sue Maszaros: If you have a budget of you know, even a million dollars that's not going to go very far. 42 00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:29.730 Sue Maszaros: So how this actually affects us so bringing bring it home, so the average annual increase for cereals like colleges and university libraries is somewhere between 4.8 5.9%. 43 00:05:31.200 --> 00:05:39.990 Sue Maszaros: Are but in bunches last year's was about 5.7 I haven't done the math for this year so it's about you know that's been about our our average. 44 00:05:41.790 --> 00:05:50.970 Sue Maszaros: journal prices have increased 24% since 2016 so to put that into context for us our budget has. 45 00:05:53.070 --> 00:05:56.130 Sue Maszaros: Increased by about 17% and. 46 00:05:57.540 --> 00:06:06.420 Sue Maszaros: I would say that's probably the math is a little you know we probably been less considering we had co bid and you know these kinds of things so. 47 00:06:08.100 --> 00:06:18.600 Sue Maszaros: So you can see where where the discrepancy is and why it's so hard for us to keep up and 38% of our budget at the library budget. 48 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:36.150 Sue Maszaros: acquisitions budget goes towards individual journal subscriptions and packages are big deals 88% of our budget goes towards electronic resources So these are all subscriptions These are all things that we have to pay for continually so it's it's a big big chunk. 49 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:49.380 Sue Maszaros: So why is this if it's such a crisis and everybody's struggling with this why can't we just fix it so it's a model that's over 350 years old. 50 00:06:51.270 --> 00:06:58.890 Sue Maszaros: And there's all kinds of stakeholders that have conflicting interests, so we have publishers and funders libraries and scholars and. 51 00:07:00.390 --> 00:07:04.320 Sue Maszaros: Who are all involved in this framework, and so. 52 00:07:07.770 --> 00:07:11.940 Sue Maszaros: used to be the work of scholarly societies. 53 00:07:13.110 --> 00:07:13.860 Sue Maszaros: To. 54 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:29.940 Sue Maszaros: Do what the commercial publishers now do, but the pieces of research has just exploded and commercial publishers have gotten involved and it changed the game so it's again commercial publishers equal huge profit so. 55 00:07:32.280 --> 00:07:38.070 Sue Maszaros: You know the advantage that these publishers have is that each journal is unique. 56 00:07:39.570 --> 00:07:52.020 Sue Maszaros: it's characterized by its own specific focus and prestige so there's really no competition it's not like you know nature is its own journal, I mean it's you know there's no competition for that so. 57 00:07:53.610 --> 00:08:01.320 Sue Maszaros: So you feel like if you're a library, or if you are a scholar in that field, you need access to that specific. 58 00:08:02.730 --> 00:08:06.750 Sue Maszaros: journal so who will pay for tomorrow scientific publishing is. 59 00:08:08.550 --> 00:08:13.950 Sue Maszaros: What are what are what our dilemma is, and this is for open access comes in, so. 60 00:08:15.450 --> 00:08:18.420 Sue Maszaros: So there's a kind of a new sense of urgency so. 61 00:08:19.590 --> 00:08:23.520 Sue Maszaros: Last year plan s was put into place so. 62 00:08:24.900 --> 00:08:35.400 Sue Maszaros: plan, as is supported by coalition S, which is an international consortium of research funding and performing organizations. 63 00:08:36.990 --> 00:08:50.340 Sue Maszaros: It requires starting at 2021 scientific publications that result from science we research funded by public grants must be published and compliant open access journals or platforms. 64 00:08:53.550 --> 00:09:11.490 Sue Maszaros: So you know what What is so special about plants because we've got you know NIH public access policy that's been mandated since 2008 requiring research funded by NIH to be available freely available within publish pub MED central within four months of publication. 65 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:26.250 Sue Maszaros: And the plan is is different because they have some of the world's most influential funders such as bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Howard Hughes medical Institute. 66 00:09:26.790 --> 00:09:40.110 Sue Maszaros: Welcome from London and these represent 5% of all research articles and 12% of the most highly cited journal so it's you know that we see the game changing. 67 00:09:42.570 --> 00:09:48.900 Sue Maszaros: And there's also you know no embargo period like NIH they have to be immediately available. 68 00:09:50.820 --> 00:10:03.870 Sue Maszaros: So you know now things really get ugly so we have you know drill publishers like wiley and Elsevier and Springer nature, making huge profits from this publishing model and there's a lot at stake. 69 00:10:05.190 --> 00:10:05.910 Sue Maszaros: So. 70 00:10:08.430 --> 00:10:14.190 Sue Maszaros: You know, publishers have to respond to this initiative, so they are creating. 71 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:18.120 Sue Maszaros: Open up avenues for open access. 72 00:10:19.560 --> 00:10:27.810 Sue Maszaros: And, but then there's also a model within that that you know as. 73 00:10:28.980 --> 00:10:32.730 Sue Maszaros: Requiring scholars or researchers to pay to. 74 00:10:33.990 --> 00:10:36.000 Sue Maszaros: pay a fee to publish so. 75 00:10:40.560 --> 00:10:41.760 Sue Maszaros: Anyway, so. 76 00:10:45.810 --> 00:10:56.760 Sue Maszaros: plan, as you know, it's it has moved the mark towards the towards the direction of open access and now the momentum is building that direction and Courtney is going to tell us about that. 77 00:10:59.070 --> 00:10:59.250 Sue Maszaros: I. 78 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:00.780 Courtney F (she/her): think so. 79 00:11:01.620 --> 00:11:15.810 Courtney F (she/her): So as soon as explained sort of the serials crisis and how it's affecting library budgets and scholarly publishing so let's and she has mentioned open access as the solution or possible solution to this so let's define open access. 80 00:11:16.860 --> 00:11:21.450 Courtney F (she/her): There are a couple of definitions floating around out there but they all agree on. 81 00:11:22.680 --> 00:11:32.400 Courtney F (she/her): Some things open access is the free immediate online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. 82 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:46.980 Courtney F (she/her): And it is digital online free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions, so there are two aspects required for something to be considered truly open access, it must be free of charge to the reader. 83 00:11:47.880 --> 00:12:05.400 Courtney F (she/her): and free of the majority of copyright restrictions, the preference for things to be open access is also that they should be immediate that there should not be an embargo and apply to the full text, not to the abstract, or the summaries of various publications. 84 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:16.020 Courtney F (she/her): So with that definition in mind let's talk about some details open access works are still copyrighted and. 85 00:12:16.620 --> 00:12:26.310 Courtney F (she/her): There are a variety of ways to do that, so it should be free of most copyright restrictions creative commons licenses are one way to do this. 86 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:35.850 Courtney F (she/her): authors, who are working with traditional publishers can request a dependence or additional negotiations on the licenses for their individual articles. 87 00:12:37.560 --> 00:12:51.270 Courtney F (she/her): That let them hold their own copyrights or let them publish their work in a digital repository or something like that, after an embargo period or There are a variety of ways to do that. 88 00:12:52.350 --> 00:13:02.250 Courtney F (she/her): copyright holders usually consent to the users, that are required by legitimate COP scholarship meaning unrestricted reading downloading copying. 89 00:13:02.910 --> 00:13:13.500 Courtney F (she/her): searching printing linking and so forth, and authors do retain control over the integrity of their work and retain the rights to be acknowledged and cited properly. 90 00:13:14.130 --> 00:13:29.340 Courtney F (she/her): So Community standards are still in place to police the works with the expectation that users will cite their sources appropriately, there are no new copyright regulations required to make open access work. 91 00:13:30.690 --> 00:13:33.930 Courtney F (she/her): one caveat about open access is that it is not free to produce. 92 00:13:34.980 --> 00:13:44.340 Courtney F (she/her): Even on the Internet publishing is not free, but there may be a better way to pay the bills than charging readers and putting up access barriers. 93 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:56.280 Courtney F (she/her): So one of the things that open access does to become less expensive is that there are no print open access journals so it dispenses with the cost of printing and distributing physical materials. 94 00:13:57.450 --> 00:14:04.350 Courtney F (she/her): Open access, because it does not charge the reader eliminate subscription management costs which can be quite a bit. 95 00:14:05.340 --> 00:14:14.130 Courtney F (she/her): If you've ever managed memberships in anything you know that it takes a lot to keep up with, who has paid their annual dues, and those sorts of things who's behind. 96 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:26.580 Courtney F (she/her): So those management costs are eliminated, there are also digital rights management costs, so the software used to manage rights on pdfs and keep them locked up. 97 00:14:27.390 --> 00:14:36.390 Courtney F (she/her): are quite expensive, there are also expenses related to the drafting and enforcing of restricted licenses. 98 00:14:37.350 --> 00:14:51.300 Courtney F (she/her): So open access is going to reduce or eliminate those expenses as well, so open access is not free and is often paid for, not all the time, but often paid for by Article processing charges. 99 00:14:52.320 --> 00:15:07.530 Courtney F (she/her): That keeps the cost of publishing from being a barrier to the reader and not all open access journals charge an article processing charge, some of them get their funding in other ways, so, even though open access is. 100 00:15:08.820 --> 00:15:14.100 Courtney F (she/her): has fewer restrictions and is not free to produce but it's less expensive, it is not low quality. 101 00:15:15.210 --> 00:15:21.150 Courtney F (she/her): The open access journals are still peer reviewed, they can still have a high impact factor. 102 00:15:22.020 --> 00:15:28.290 Courtney F (she/her): and articles that are published in a traditional toll access journal can still be made open access. 103 00:15:28.770 --> 00:15:34.410 Courtney F (she/her): By negotiating with the publishers, so a lot of times, the reason that open access journals. 104 00:15:34.800 --> 00:15:44.370 Courtney F (she/her): are not considered as high quality is because they simply have not been around as long so they don't have the high impact factor of a journal that has been around for. 105 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:53.100 Courtney F (she/her): You know 50 or 100 years or even 10 years because they just don't have the track record to make those impact factors go higher. 106 00:15:54.660 --> 00:16:00.510 Courtney F (she/her): So they will eventually become larger players in the field. 107 00:16:01.590 --> 00:16:08.820 Courtney F (she/her): One other sort of impact on this is that a lot of total access journals. 108 00:16:09.990 --> 00:16:18.120 Courtney F (she/her): can be protected by the big deals that Sue mentioned, where you want one very prestigious journal, but you have to pay for 10. 109 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:25.080 Courtney F (she/her): And the other nine journals might be less prestigious and there might be one in there that's terrible, but you can't cancel it. 110 00:16:25.500 --> 00:16:38.730 Courtney F (she/her): And so open access journals have to maintain their high quality in order to maintain better submissions and and that sort of thing, so that is something that keeps them higher quality. 111 00:16:40.230 --> 00:16:43.920 Courtney F (she/her): So open access is not just articles that is something that we focus on. 112 00:16:44.670 --> 00:16:54.180 Courtney F (she/her): But any kind of literature can be open access as long as it meets those two basic requirements of being free to the reader and largely free of copyright restrictions. 113 00:16:55.170 --> 00:17:09.600 Courtney F (she/her): This can apply open access can be applied to any digital content, it can apply to things that are born digital or to older works public domain literature cultural heritage objects things like that that may have been digitized. 114 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:12.810 Courtney F (she/her): Later in their life cycle. 115 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:26.100 Courtney F (she/her): Open access works and can include things like textbooks or other educational materials as well, and making some of those types of works open access can actually drive sales. 116 00:17:26.910 --> 00:17:37.170 Courtney F (she/her): In addition to driving the use of the open access publication, whether that's a journal article or other type of publication. 117 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:47.850 Courtney F (she/her): And so there are lots of benefits to open access those open access educational materials like I said can drive sales. 118 00:17:48.510 --> 00:18:01.140 Courtney F (she/her): But the the one of the biggest acts open access benefits is that there's going to be more exposure for the work, and that means that researchers who might not otherwise be able to afford to read. 119 00:18:01.620 --> 00:18:11.490 Courtney F (she/her): A publication would be able to see it and then use it practitioners can apply findings so folks who are actually doing the work in the field. 120 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:23.580 Courtney F (she/her): Those things can result in higher citation rates, which is something that might matter for tenure and promotion taxpayers who are helping fund some of the public funding grants. 121 00:18:24.390 --> 00:18:38.460 Courtney F (she/her): are going to get more value for their money, because more people are going to be allowed to use the works, and they can actually follow up and find out what their funding and influence policy as well, so open access is going to be. 122 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:47.610 Courtney F (she/her): Overall, more of a net benefit to those who are working in the scholarly publishing areas. 123 00:18:50.820 --> 00:19:00.960 Jenny Mills: So i'm going to talk about the different models of open access and there's really two models green and gold probably most people think of the gold model. 124 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:10.860 Jenny Mills: Primarily, and that is when you do have to pay an APC to make your work, open, but actually. 125 00:19:12.330 --> 00:19:20.550 Jenny Mills: There are more open access journals that do not charge a fee and even those that do often have other options to make your work, open. 126 00:19:21.090 --> 00:19:38.100 Jenny Mills: So green open access involves self archiving of articles and there are a variety of platforms available for researchers to self archive their work and then with gold open access and author submits a work to be. 127 00:19:39.420 --> 00:19:51.030 Jenny Mills: published at no cost for the reader as Courtney explained, but costs to fund the publication may be assessed to the author through an APC an article processing charge. 128 00:19:53.220 --> 00:19:58.860 Jenny Mills: That the author or the authors institution or funding agency within pay. 129 00:20:01.140 --> 00:20:10.050 Jenny Mills: So how do you know which route to take, so this is all part of the journal selection process and when you're deciding where to publish. 130 00:20:10.980 --> 00:20:28.740 Jenny Mills: So for a journal you're considering you'll need to see what the open access policies are for that journal, and so you can do this by going to the journal website, of course, and reading about their policies but there's also a tool called Sherpa Romeo that can be really helpful. 131 00:20:30.060 --> 00:20:33.510 Jenny Mills: And Sherpa Romeo is an online resource that aggregates. 132 00:20:34.680 --> 00:20:45.090 Jenny Mills: And analyzes publisher open access policies, so you can search for a journal title there and kind of quickly see what their policies are and i'll show you that here, in just a second but. 133 00:20:46.140 --> 00:20:53.850 Jenny Mills: This little graphic sort of demonstrates the different routes that you might take so you're thinking about publishing or submitting to a journal. 134 00:20:55.230 --> 00:21:03.540 Jenny Mills: You could go to their website and check their policies or check them through sharper Romeo and if it's an open access journal up at the top here. 135 00:21:03.990 --> 00:21:16.800 Jenny Mills: And that would be the gold route and you might pay an APC if it's required and then your work is made available immediately with no no embargoes for readers. 136 00:21:18.360 --> 00:21:32.880 Jenny Mills: You might find that if it's not an open access journal, this is more traditional subscription based journal, then there might be several different options so depending on their policies, you might be able to archive. 137 00:21:34.110 --> 00:21:52.170 Jenny Mills: A version of the manuscript in a repository maybe in an institutional repository or subject repository maybe on your research gate page all depending on the policies that you find and then the work might be made open. 138 00:21:53.250 --> 00:22:03.510 Jenny Mills: Immediately or depending on the policy there might be an embargo, where it can be made available in one year or 18 months or something like that. 139 00:22:04.350 --> 00:22:21.990 Jenny Mills: So that would be one green route some subscription based journals traditional journals have an open access option, so it is optional, when you submit a manuscript you, you have the option to pay an APC. 140 00:22:22.770 --> 00:22:33.870 Jenny Mills: And these journals are called hybrid because they are still available, you know by subscription as they always have been, but they're adding on this open access. 141 00:22:35.100 --> 00:22:51.870 Jenny Mills: You know option, so you can choose to pay that and then your work is available or if you don't choose that option, then your work might be behind a paywall it might be that you can self archive it but is probably not it's not going to be immediate probably going to be an embargo. 142 00:22:53.520 --> 00:23:00.720 Jenny Mills: So those are some of the different routes that you might see a little bit about more about green open access. 143 00:23:01.170 --> 00:23:08.190 Jenny Mills: So you know, this allows you to retain your author writes and allows you to self archive the time of publication. 144 00:23:08.610 --> 00:23:21.060 Jenny Mills: In the most important thing to remember here is that you need to know which main district version, you can archive Is it the submitted version is it the peer reviewed version. 145 00:23:21.750 --> 00:23:33.720 Jenny Mills: The post print The pre or post friend, or is it the final version that's been formatted and so again, you can check the publishers why websites or sharper Romeo. 146 00:23:34.230 --> 00:23:47.460 Jenny Mills: To see about those policies and i'll just if you just Google Sherpa Romeo you can find this and i'll just do a quick example for the journal a and aging. 147 00:23:50.010 --> 00:23:50.550 Jenny Mills: hey. 148 00:23:51.630 --> 00:24:04.500 Jenny Mills: So there are different pathways here different versions, so you know i'll start down here at the bottom of the submitted version, so this is before peer review or anything. 149 00:24:05.910 --> 00:24:20.790 Jenny Mills: anything like that, so you can see there's there's no embargo here, you can post this submitted version to an institutional or subject repository or noncommercial social network or. 150 00:24:22.920 --> 00:24:27.090 Jenny Mills: let's see uh you can put it on your homepage Oh, here it is it's a. 151 00:24:28.380 --> 00:24:51.960 Jenny Mills: or a pre print repository for repository like archive or something like that, and then there are conditions, and then you go up and so next you know, an accepted version so and here is the you know NIH policy where you can post it or you may have to post it to pubmed central. 152 00:24:53.730 --> 00:24:59.850 Jenny Mills: But there is that embark oh there's another pathway for an accepted version. 153 00:25:01.530 --> 00:25:08.250 Jenny Mills: To be posted in institutional or non commercial repository again with an embargo. 154 00:25:08.790 --> 00:25:23.160 Jenny Mills: And all the way up to the published version, so this would be the final version of record that's been form, you know peer reviewed formatted all of that, and so you can see, this one has an open access fee associated with it. 155 00:25:24.330 --> 00:25:29.040 Jenny Mills: And it has a creative commons license. 156 00:25:30.120 --> 00:25:36.900 Jenny Mills: So if you pay that fee to publish donal published version will be made available to readers immediately with them embargo. 157 00:25:38.700 --> 00:25:44.190 Jenny Mills: So that's just an example of how Sherpa Romeo is helpful. 158 00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:49.680 Jenny Mills: You can find you often you find this information on the publisher sites as well. 159 00:25:51.030 --> 00:25:57.060 Jenny Mills: But you have to look around, of course, the on the page and find it so sometimes it's easier, just to come and look here. 160 00:25:58.800 --> 00:26:10.950 Jenny Mills: So, depending on the policy you could self archive your work, so you know, maybe on your own site or in a subject repository or in the belmont digital repository. 161 00:26:11.340 --> 00:26:20.130 Jenny Mills: And so I want to show this real quick if you're not familiar we've had this repository up and running for a couple of years now we have a little bit of faculty work there. 162 00:26:20.940 --> 00:26:32.220 Jenny Mills: Already so i'll just go ahead and show you the repository it's available at repositories at belmont that EDU and you can see. 163 00:26:33.330 --> 00:26:42.720 Jenny Mills: We have different collections I believe courtney's just shared that link in the chat and so these are the collections, we have so far. 164 00:26:43.140 --> 00:27:03.630 Jenny Mills: We have a lot of different kinds of things in our repository some student work some novella history some special collections that we also have some faculty work i'll show you the College of law, probably has the most law faculty scholarship here. 165 00:27:05.790 --> 00:27:09.090 Jenny Mills: So some of their submissions from the last couple of years. 166 00:27:13.320 --> 00:27:30.780 Jenny Mills: So they put their work here and it's available in through here is also discoverable through Google scholar, and so, sometimes you can see i'll show you something that I know has had a lot of downloads from the school of nursing. 167 00:27:32.040 --> 00:27:40.020 Jenny Mills: The dmp they post their scholarly projects here and let's just choose something from. 168 00:27:41.670 --> 00:27:42.450 Jenny Mills: 2020. 169 00:27:44.100 --> 00:27:58.320 Jenny Mills: So you can see, this has been downloaded 365 times since it was uploaded in March of 2020 so a lot of this work is being discovered and is being downloaded and used from. 170 00:27:59.310 --> 00:28:07.560 Jenny Mills: All over the world, which is pretty cool, so we do have that repository and so, if you're interested in adding your work. 171 00:28:08.100 --> 00:28:17.430 Jenny Mills: We may not have a collection at this point for every college for faculty scholarship we're adding them as people request, so if you. 172 00:28:17.850 --> 00:28:27.840 Jenny Mills: If you want to add your work and you have questions about that you can always email any of the Librarians and we'll get you to the right person, but repository at belmont that EDU. 173 00:28:29.790 --> 00:28:35.550 Jenny Mills: Even if you just want to learn more about that for yourself or for your your college or your department. 174 00:28:38.190 --> 00:28:43.020 Jenny Mills: Okay, and then, of course, gold Oh, a you know is quickly becoming. 175 00:28:44.040 --> 00:28:50.580 Jenny Mills: Even more popular model, especially in certain disciplines, especially in the sciences and the health sciences. 176 00:28:51.000 --> 00:29:02.970 Jenny Mills: And you know, while away was supposed to help solve some of the problems and scholarly publishing it has created a new problem and that's shifting the cost burden from readers now to authors. 177 00:29:03.450 --> 00:29:12.840 Jenny Mills: So, similar to the cost of subscriptions we're seeing the cost of a PCs rising, and you know, some of them can be quite expensive. 178 00:29:13.380 --> 00:29:23.850 Jenny Mills: But they vary widely across publishers, you know anywhere from $100 to $10,000 we did a survey and survey of faculty in the spring. 179 00:29:24.510 --> 00:29:32.490 Jenny Mills: Just to see you know faculties knowledge of open access or perceptions of it, and if people are paying a PCs and. 180 00:29:33.300 --> 00:29:43.770 Jenny Mills: There wasn't a huge number that are paying a vcs but we're seeing it here and there, and I think the average cost that they reported paying was around 1600. 181 00:29:44.400 --> 00:30:05.850 Jenny Mills: per Article, and so the question is, you know how do you pay these charges, where does the funding come from and then they're also maybe questions if it's a hybrid journal, do you pay the fee or or not in and how do you make that decision, so it can be a little bit complicated. 182 00:30:08.550 --> 00:30:23.580 Jenny Mills: So the other thing that you, you know, to keep in mind is evaluating journals and publisher so open access does not equal predatory there are a lot of very high quality, open access journals but. 183 00:30:25.020 --> 00:30:40.590 Jenny Mills: Some bad actors have have taken advantage of changing publishing models and so you just have to be careful, whenever you're evaluating any kind of Journal and so. 184 00:30:41.700 --> 00:30:44.040 Jenny Mills: We have some tools that. 185 00:30:45.270 --> 00:30:51.150 Jenny Mills: can help you to evaluate a journal that you're considering, we have a subscription to cobbles. 186 00:30:51.900 --> 00:31:05.580 Jenny Mills: Which is a database or a directory of journals and i'll just show you that really quickly and in a minute i'll show you where to find these on this on the website, but we do have a subscription for cobbles This is one list that you can check. 187 00:31:06.690 --> 00:31:16.680 Jenny Mills: No, although no list is going to include every reputable journal or every predatory journal so it's one tool. 188 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:24.150 Jenny Mills: But it may or may not, you know give you the information that you need so in cobbles you have. 189 00:31:26.190 --> 00:31:34.020 Jenny Mills: dirt dirt analytics database and then a predatory database that it's different So if I search journalistic for. 190 00:31:35.310 --> 00:31:37.200 Jenny Mills: age and an aging. 191 00:31:38.580 --> 00:31:42.300 Jenny Mills: want to see if it's indexing cobbles and it is. 192 00:31:43.740 --> 00:31:46.200 Jenny Mills: And I will also say we only have certain. 193 00:31:48.780 --> 00:31:50.400 Jenny Mills: modules of cobbles. 194 00:31:51.810 --> 00:31:59.910 Jenny Mills: So this is, this is a limited list of journals so if your journal does not show up here that it does not mean that it. 195 00:32:01.140 --> 00:32:11.190 Jenny Mills: Is not reputable it just may not be on the list, but agent aging is here, and so it gives you some basic information, the the publisher and the. 196 00:32:12.660 --> 00:32:16.410 Jenny Mills: site index and a little bit of metrics and and so on. 197 00:32:17.850 --> 00:32:25.830 Jenny Mills: Sometimes it will show the acceptance rates, sometimes it just depends on what what information they've reported to cobbles but. 198 00:32:26.280 --> 00:32:36.210 Jenny Mills: it's a good sign that shows up on this journalistic list if I search the predatory reports course agent aging assignment show up because we just found it on analytics but. 199 00:32:38.820 --> 00:32:56.490 Jenny Mills: here's, one that is similar, so the journal of aging disability and chronic disease show ups shows up on the predatory reports, and it has five violations, and so it will tell you why it's showing up on this list, what the violations were and so it's just a really quick thing you can check. 200 00:32:58.320 --> 00:33:06.060 Jenny Mills: Just to start with, but there are a lot of other tools think checks admit, is free website that's really helpful. 201 00:33:06.570 --> 00:33:14.460 Jenny Mills: And it will list certain characteristics of book chapters or journals or so on that you can look at. 202 00:33:15.060 --> 00:33:31.650 Jenny Mills: And so you know, one of the things I would say is if you're considering a journal The first question is, do you read it, you know, is it a journal that you're familiar with and have you read articles from that journal, and before, if not read some and see what you think. 203 00:33:32.820 --> 00:33:45.450 Jenny Mills: there's also this nice little checklist that so you can go through some of these questions and just see make your own assessment based on some of these characteristics from think tech summit. 204 00:33:46.770 --> 00:33:51.450 Jenny Mills: And these characteristics, we have pulled out here. 205 00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:54.870 Jenny Mills: These are all coming from. 206 00:33:56.430 --> 00:34:07.650 Jenny Mills: Different organizations like cope, the Committee on publication ethics in also do AJ the directory of open access journals they have. 207 00:34:08.820 --> 00:34:23.100 Jenny Mills: sort of come up with this this list of characteristics, to look for and this is also where the tpm committee took the language that they incorporated into the Faculty handbook last year. 208 00:34:23.820 --> 00:34:31.770 Jenny Mills: was coming from from cope and from do ha these these sort of standard characteristics and things to look for them. 209 00:34:34.170 --> 00:34:40.770 Jenny Mills: So on the library's website, we do have an open access guide and so. 210 00:34:43.080 --> 00:34:56.970 Jenny Mills: It has a lot of the information that we have covered today, you want to do a little bit more reading, and it also has a section for evaluating publishers with links to. 211 00:34:57.480 --> 00:35:07.410 Jenny Mills: cobbles and think check submit and a couple of other lists and then all those characteristics again that you can look through. 212 00:35:08.520 --> 00:35:23.100 Jenny Mills: So this is here for your use this is on the open access research guide and i'll just go to the library homepage to show you how to get back to that page, so we have a lot of research guides and they're linked here. 213 00:35:24.330 --> 00:35:29.460 Jenny Mills: And this is just an alphabetical list i'm going to go down to open access. 214 00:35:34.860 --> 00:35:36.690 Jenny Mills: And then you can always get back here. 215 00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:38.400 Jenny Mills: That way. 216 00:35:40.530 --> 00:35:49.050 Jenny Mills: Okay, so i'm going to stop there and see if anybody has any questions or comments. 217 00:35:55.980 --> 00:35:57.690 Cathy Ficzere: So I have a quick question. 218 00:35:58.170 --> 00:35:59.700 Cathy Ficzere: Maybe it's not quit I don't know. 219 00:36:02.670 --> 00:36:20.400 Cathy Ficzere: Have you gotten any feedback from the university's promotion and tenure committee about how the process is going with maybe more faculty going up for promotion and tenure with open access journals has it been a barrier or Has it gone Okay, or do you know. 220 00:36:24.060 --> 00:36:25.620 Jenny Mills: I don't know if it's. 221 00:36:27.090 --> 00:36:39.210 Jenny Mills: I don't know if it's been a barrier necessarily I just think that we we've never had as a campus haven't had very many conversations about open access and about. 222 00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:58.380 Jenny Mills: journal quality there there aren't any I mean I guess certain colleges have certain criteria, like acceptance rates and things like that that they look for the think as a university, we just need to have more conversations about. 223 00:36:59.550 --> 00:37:05.670 Jenny Mills: about what about access is the value of it and about how to select journals. 224 00:37:06.840 --> 00:37:14.430 Jenny Mills: And you know it can be, it can be tricky because each discipline is a little bit different and. 225 00:37:15.780 --> 00:37:30.840 Jenny Mills: For example, in some disciplines, it is completely normal and acceptable for the author to recommend reviewers and other disciplines, they would they would not do that, and so. 226 00:37:32.940 --> 00:37:39.660 Jenny Mills: You there's not just one standard way to evaluate a journal I guess it really does vary. 227 00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:44.640 Jenny Mills: By discipline so relying on those characteristics from Pope. 228 00:37:45.870 --> 00:37:54.240 Jenny Mills: I think is helpful because they provide some guidance, while not being prescriptive exactly. 229 00:37:56.460 --> 00:37:57.960 Sue Maszaros: And i'm just my add that. 230 00:37:59.400 --> 00:37:59.970 Sue Maszaros: You know. 231 00:38:01.140 --> 00:38:17.220 Sue Maszaros: The library, we feel like this is well, this is, I think this is our job, this is why you have a library is to help lead people through these conversations it's an opportunity for us to show some leadership for the campus on this topic and. 232 00:38:19.020 --> 00:38:23.190 Sue Maszaros: You know, we are immersed in this world and. 233 00:38:24.210 --> 00:38:34.200 Sue Maszaros: So you know we are part of our strategic plan is to draft an open access policy and, and you know that will have a lot of you know. 234 00:38:35.790 --> 00:38:48.540 Sue Maszaros: get a lot of input from different people, but I think we need to make a recommendation of where we where we you know what direction we should go in, based on what we know right now and and open access policy doesn't mean. 235 00:38:49.140 --> 00:38:58.500 Sue Maszaros: Everybody has publishing open access it could simply mean we We recommend that all faculty put a copy of their. 236 00:38:59.220 --> 00:39:15.270 Sue Maszaros: You know, soon to be publication or their whatever whatever is allowable by publisher in the repository you know something like that, so that it that we're somehow also making the information accessible and equitable to access so um. 237 00:39:16.380 --> 00:39:20.190 Sue Maszaros: yeah so we yeah we are you know. 238 00:39:21.720 --> 00:39:33.600 Sue Maszaros: really willing in and excited about taking a lead role in this, you know we don't necessarily have an agenda we just want to lead lead the university to the conversations of that. 239 00:39:50.250 --> 00:39:52.860 Jenny Mills: Thank you katie for your for your comment there in the chat. 240 00:39:56.640 --> 00:40:09.810 Jenny Mills: Well, thank you, thank you all for coming and for attending the session today, hopefully, it was helpful in in like Susa I think this is just the beginning of ongoing conversations that will all have together. 241 00:40:11.220 --> 00:40:13.620 Jenny Mills: And so we appreciate you you being here. 242 00:40:14.820 --> 00:40:15.540 Cathy Ficzere: Thank you. 243 00:40:16.710 --> 00:40:19.740 Jenny Mills: All right, bye bye stop the recording.