UNIT - IV

OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING

 UNIT – IV
Open Access Publishing
• Open access publications and initiatives
• SHERPA/RoMEO online resource to check publisher copyright &
self-archiving policies
• Software tool to identify predatory publications developed by SPPU
• Journal finger / journal suggestion tools viz. JANE, Elsevier Journal
Finder, Springer, Journal Suggester, etc.
Open Access Publications and initiatives

• Open access is a large multinational movement that aims to make

academic content, such as articles and data, freely available online.
• When there are no financial, legal, or technical barriers to accessing a
publication, it is defined as "open access," and that implies that
anybody can peruse, download, duplicate, circulate, print, look for
and search inside the data, or use it in training or in whatever other
way that falls inside the legitimate arrangements.
• The concept of open access emerged in 1991 as a result of a recognition of
the need to improve academic communication.
• 'Open Access' to academic communication is seen as a way to combat
rising journal prices and avoid the growing problem of limited access to the
expanding body of research publications.
• Other motivations for moving to 'Open Access' include the belief that
publicly funded research should be more accessible to the general public;
• the digital divide between the developing and developed worlds should be
narrowed; access to research by and in the developing worlds should be
greatly improved;
• and researchers at underfunded institutional libraries will have more
access to research literature.
• As authors and readers, OA benefits researchers directly. It assists research
funding and oversight institutions, ranging from universities and laboratories to
foundations and governments. It increases the availability of academic literature
while lowering costs
• The focus of OA is on writings that authors freely share with the public without
expecting money.
• A number of efforts have been launched throughout the world to promote the
open access idea and open publishing philosophy of academic communication.
• They are grouped into three categories: research projects, commercially driven
ventures, and collaborative projects.
• Open access is a forward-moving step from "Free Access," which simply
eliminates evaluating limitations permitting end clients free access the end client
gets free admittance to the substance as well as the option to spread it further
under OA
• Open access is a forward-moving step from "Free Access,"
• Open access writing is advanced, for nothing, and sans copyright; OA
is viable with copyright, peer audit, pay, print, protection, distinction.
• The OA movement focuses on the books that writers freely share to
the public of remuneration;
• All major OA projects for scientific and intellectual communication
are compatible with OA.
• Full Open Access Journals is publishing in full open access journals via
publisher platforms.
• There may be a fee for this route. The 'article processing charges,'
often known as APCs, are paid either by authors or their institutions
• The DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) website has a list of
completely open access journals that are available worldwide.
• Publication through 'hybrid' journals. These are subscription
publications that allow individual articles to be published openly after
payment of an Article Processing Charge (APC).
• Kinds of Open Access:
• At this stage recognizing a few components of the issue: OA can be
conveyed in two ways is significant:
• First 'green': the author can self-chronicle at the hour of accommodation of
the publication (the 'green' course) whether the publication is dark writing
(normally inside non-peer-looked into), a companion explored journal
publication, a friend inspected meeting procedures paper or a monograph
• 'gold': the author or author establishment can pay an expense to the
publisher at publication time, the publisher from there on making the
material accessible 'free' at the mark of access (the 'gold' course).
• The second aspect to be recognized is the timing and quality viewpoint:
preprints are pre-peer-audit articles, post prints are post-peer-survey and
post-publication articles while e-prints can be either yet in electronic
structure.
• A third aspect is white/dim writing. White writing is peer-investigated,
distributed articles while dim is preprints or inside 'skill' material. Obviously
there are normally many intriguing connections among dark and white
articles
• The e-print services such as the physics e-print archives arXiv first subject
repository set up by Paul Gingsparg and the PubMedCentral [PMC],
'BioMed Central' (BMC), and the 'Public Library of Science' (PLoS) which
provide open publishing facility for biomedical researchers are examples of
author-driven initiatives.
• A commercially driven endeavor is 'Crossref,' a publisher-linking
service supported by more than 180 publishers throughout the world.
• The ICAAP (International Consortium for the Advancement of
Academic Publications), SPARC, High-Wire Press, and many more
collaborative endeavors are examples.
• SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is a
collaborative effort of universities, research libraries, and other
groups to address commercial failures in the scholarly communication
system.
• The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is an indexing and
maintenance service for high-quality peer-reviewed Open Access
journals.
• SHERPA RoMEO is an accessible assortment of publisher strategies on
journal article self-chronicling on the web and in Open Access
storehouses.
• SHERPA/JULIET keeps track of open access policy at funding
organizations across the world.
• SHERPA ROMEO/SHERPA Juliet assist scholars in understanding the
OA policies of publishers and funders.
• Several funding bodies throughout the world, including the National
Institutes of Health and Welcome Trust care, are now requiring open
access to research funded by their funds.
• To enhance science and the knowledge-based economy, the European
Commission encouraged all European Union (EU) member states to make
publicly financed research findings available in 2012.
• The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States requires all
grantees to make the outcomes of NIH-funded research open access within
12 months after publication.
• The Wellcome Trust, like the Research Councils UK, demands open access
to Wellcome-funded research within six months after publication.
 National Level

• In India, research is hampered by two issues: accessibility and visibility.

• Both of these issues can be remedied if Open Access is widely adopted.
• While the Open Access (OA) movement has sparked much controversy and
attention throughout the world, it is viewed as a once-in-a-generation
opportunity in India to enable equitable access to critical research material
while also boosting awareness of indigenous research.
• The academic and scientific communities in India have been working to
provide unfettered access to scholarly publications through Open Access
from the movement's inception.
 Indian National Science Academy (INSA)
https://www.insaindia.res.in/index.php
• The Indian National Science Academy (INSA)is a coherent establishment
financed by the Government of India.
• It was spread out in 1935. INSA distributes4 companion researched
journals, assembles legitimate discussions and brings out methodology and
monographs.
• The e-journals@insa is an endeavor of the Indian National Science
Academy that was started in July2002.
• At first this was a NISSAT-maintained project named "Building Digital
Resources" Making Offices at INSA for working with S&T Journals on
Online", to work with change of INSA journals from print to cutting edge
setup and host these materials on the web.
• All INSA journals are open access and full text is available as PDF records
from the ordinary journal entry.
 Indian Academy of Sciences
(IAS):https://www.ias.ac.in/Journals/Overview/
• The Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS) is a legitimate establishment
sponsored by the Government of India.
• It was spread out in 1934 and disperses 13 Journals. All journals are open
access and full-text composing is available as PDF archives on each journal's
site.
• Every one of the articles in late worries of these journals are considered
modernized.
• The articles of back volumes, which were not imagined mechanized, have
been digitized through an organization maintained project.
• IAS has at present recorded all articles of journals from the principal
volume. From 2007 onwards, IAS journals are moreover open through
Springer Link, a participation based entryway of electronic journals.
• IndianJournals.com: https://indianjournals.com/
• It gives single window induction to multidisciplinary Indian journals
circulated by different clever social orders and foundations.
• It gives induction to eleven open access journals and periodicals.
• This journal entry in like manner gives permission to enrollment
based content.
• These open access sagacious journals predominantly have a spot with
the science, development and prescription (STM) locales
 Indian MEDLARS Center

• At the National Informatics Center has begun two special projects with
assistance from the Indian Council of Medical Research.
• The first is INDMED@NICthat records 77 obvious biomedical journals of
India from 1985 onwards.
• This INDMED bibliographic informational collection is open on the web.
• Another undertaking, MEDIND@NIC is an open access drivefrom NIC that
gives open induction to the full-message content of 38 Indian biomedical
journals.
• MEDIND@NIC targets giving electronic permission to full-message Indian
biomedical periodicals to the clients inside and outside India.
• Medknow Publications: https://www.medknow.com/
• Medknow gives distributing administrations to peer-checked on, on the
web and print-in addition to online journals in medication for the benefit of
learned social orders and relationship with an emphasis on developing
business sectors.
• With a guarantee to give answers for the logical distributing local area,
Medknow's central goal is to assist clinical social orders with spreading
research, in this way supporting the change of research into information.
• Medknow works the Open access (OA) model of distributing
administrations, giving unlimited web-based admittance to peer-audited
academic research.
• We can now get to full text articles from research journals distributed
by CSIR-NISCAIR. Full text office is accommodated every one of the
nineteen exploration journals
• viz. ALIS, AIR, BVAAP, IJBB, IJBT, IJCA, IJCB, IJCT, IJEB, IJEMS, IJFTR,
IJMS, IJNPR, IJPAP, IJRSP, IJTK, JIPR, JSIR and JST. NOPR additionally
has three Popular Science Magazines viz. Science Reporter (SR),
VigyanPragati (VP) and Science Ki Duniya (SKD) and a Natural
Products Repository (NPARR).
• In India, library professionals explored strategies and approaches for digitization,
digital library creation, institutional repository development, and digital
preservation at several national and international conferences, seminars, and
symposia.
• Various efforts are expected to emerge in the future in order to develop a robust
OA landscape in India.
• Cambridge makes sense of it while presenting a paper, the co-authors will decide,
who is going to act as Corresponding Author.
• The Corresponding Author is the individual who handles the composition and
correspondence during the publication process, including supporting the article
verifications.
• Moreover, the Corresponding Author additionally goes about as the resource for
any request after the paper is published. Relating to authors mention their
institutional address at the time of submitting their article.
 SHERPA / RoMEO online resource to check
publisher copyright and self-archiving policies
• Sherpa / RoMEO is an online resource that collects and publishes
open access policies from publishers and journals all around the
world.
• Our professional staff meticulously reviews and analyses every
registered publisher or journal in RoMEO, giving depictions of
self-chronicling licenses and terms of privileges proposed to authors
on a journal by-journal premise where practical.
• Sherpa RoMEO is a site that gathers and shows open access strategies
from publishers and journals from one side of the planet to the other.
• Each enrolled publisher or journal in RoMEO is completely assessed
and dissected by our group of specialists, who give portrayals of
self-chronicling licenses and terms of privileges conceded to authors
on a journal by-journal premise where practical.
• This site essentially serves the scholastic exploration local area with
strategy data.
• SHERPA/RoMEO keeps track of the self-archiving rules that publishers include in the copyright
transfer agreements (CTA) that authors sign before their work is published.
• To identify whether anything is green, blue, yellow, or white, the online database uses a
color-coding technique (green, blue, yellow, white) and whether self-archiving is permitted under
the publisher's CTA.
• Despite this, the SHERPA/RoMEO database has significant flaws. Sherpa/RoMEO does not have an
API (application programming interface) that allows data to be utilized in a multifunctional manner,
according to Dorothea Salo, institutional repository librarian at the University of Wisconsin.
• Users would have to "screenscrape the database only to figure out what (a publisher's) regulations
are...which is ludicrous, and it obstructs automated deposit operations,”SHERPA"greatest RoMEO's
problemis that they aren't looking to update, and they defend their gates so hard that the rest of us
can't help either," according to Dorothea Salo.
• Because of this flaw, many users are forced to "maintain their own list of publication policies".
• RoMEO is a database of publisher copyright rules on self-archiving.
• Based on the publisher's copyright transfer agreement, SHERPA is in
charge of it, with help from the Joint Information Systems Committee
and the WellcomeTrust.
• Each title is classified as green (can file preprint and post print), blue
(can chronicle post print, i.e., last report post-refereeing), yellow (can
document preprint, i.e., pre-refereeing), or white (chronicling not
officially upheld).
• However, under the umbrella phrase "Open Access," there are numerous
quite diverse approaches. One of these is "green open access," in which
writers make their publications publicly available by depositing them in
institutional or public repositories.
• Scientific journals have varying rules on green open access: some allow us
to archive several versions of our paper immediately after acceptance,
while others require we to wait an embargo period or ban our from
archiving the document at all.
• Scientists might choose to publish their findings in journals that allow
manuscript archiving to encourage green open access.
• This is where SHERPA/RoMEO proves to be useful, it gives a freely open
data set of scientific journal open access policies, as well as a description of
the criteria under which article archiving may be permitted.
• SHERPA/RoMEO, three adaptations of the composition are thought
of,
• Pre-print: The composition form before peer survey is known as a
pre-print.
• Post-print: post-print refers to a manuscript that has been approved
following peer review but has not yet been typeset as a journal
article.
• Typeset Manuscript/Publisher's Manuscript: which is the original
copy with the text totally typeset as it shows up in the journal
following friend survey.
• Register An Open Access Policy:
• We must complete the applicable form provided below in as much information as possible to enlist
an open access strategy for a publisher or journal that isn't at present recorded in RoMEO. Make
sure the publisher or journal satisfies our standards by checking our inclusion criteria.
• New Publisher Policy form
• The group will analyze the solicitation against the RoMEO incorporation models by visiting the
publisher and strategy sites. Assuming the publisher and strategy fit the measures, they will be
added to the index, alongside any connected journals, and we will be informed when that occurs.
• Updating an open access policy on RoMEO:
• We invite members of the community to update publisher and journal records. To make changes to
an existing record we will need to fill out an Update Record form, which can be located at the
bottom of the record under the 'Propose an update for this record' button. If we are a publisher
who needs to refresh various titles in our list, send a bookkeeping sheet to [email protected] with the
fundamental data. Since the group checks all update proposition with the publisher, any
progressions might carve out opportunity to emerge.
 Inclusion Criteria:

• Journals:
• A substantial ISSN is expected for journals. Serial publications and meeting
procedures with suitable ISSN are also accepted. Each website's editorial board
must be properly identified. Online access to all licenses, open access policies, and
copyright declarations is required.
• Publishers:
• On the website, the regulating body must be explicitly specified. Contact
information must be easily accessible. The website's publication ethical policies
must be clearly specified.
• Publisher policy Icons:
• A series of paths is used to store publisher policies. Each route describes a method
for making a document Open Access. The following properties, along with their
related icons, may be found on paths:
• Prerequisites
• The following are the requirements that must be completed in order for the route to be used.
General requirements are required. Funders Requirements: When these funders are involved, the
route applies. Prerequisite Subjects: This pathway is applicable to the study of these topics.
• Fee for OA
• To make the paper Open Access, the author must pay a charge (in addition to any standard
publication costs that may be necessary).
• Open Access Publishing
• Open Access Publishing is part of the journey.
• Embargo
• The item will not be available until the embargo period has passed, according to the route. Unless
otherwise noted, the embargo period begins on the day of publication.
• Permit : The licenses expected for the way.
• Copy right Owner: The course requires the copyright proprietor.
• Publisher Deposit: The storehouses where the article adaptation will
be naturally saved by the journal publisher.
• Area: The sites where the article adaptation might be tracked down
on account of the course. This covers self-archiving and
publisher-deposit sites, as well as the journal's website.
• Conditions: Conditions applicable to the route.
• Notes: Observations on the path
• Not Permitted: The article version does not have an Open Access
option.
 Identify predatory publications

• Predatory publishing entails deception or writing just for the goal of

publication.
• It is a problematic academic publishing method that involves charging
large publication fees to authors without adequately assessing
manuscripts for quality and validity, and without providing the
additional editing and publishing services that are provided by normal
and genuine journals.
• Because scientists are pushed to publish with these journals, even if
some writers are aware that the journal is of poor quality or
predatory, they are classified as predatory journals.
 Predatory Publications' Characteristics

• The following are the most prevalent accusations concerning predatory

publishing:
• Accepting articles without peer review or quality control fairly quickly.
• Fees are only informed when the manuscript has been accepted for
publication in the journal.
• There has been an excessive amount of lobbying for academics to submit
publications.
• Not permitting academics to withdraw from editorial boards and
mentioning the name of academics who are members of editorial boards
without their consent.
• Adding phoney professors to their editorial board.
• More established and popular journals' names and website styles are being copied.
• Making fraudulent statements about the publishing company, such as a phoney address.
• Using ISSN incorrectly
• Impact factors are cited or absent.
• Boasting about academic social networking sites being "indexed"
• Competent scientific databases do not index the journal.
• There is no information about the editorial board on the journal's website.
• The webpage contains non-academic ads.
• The editorial board's address and contact information are not available on the journal's website.
• The editor-in- chief's, editorial board's, and columnists' scientific work cannot be reliably checked.
• The publication procedure is not transparently described.
• The journal claims to have a phoney (alternative) impact factor score.
• The editor-in-and chief's editorial team members' scientific activity cannot be tracked in scientific databases. [Eriksson]
 Avoid predatory publications
• If the journal's website makes a misleading claim regarding indexing, it's easy to spot: look up the journal's title and ISSN
number in the database and on the publisher's website. (For example, the WoS Master Journal List and the SCimago Journal
Rank)
• Many of these publications claim that Google Scholar indexes their material... while this may be true, it does not imply any
professional or scientific activity.
• Because it's nearly natural, a scientific journal does not take delight in being indexed by GoogleScholar.
• If a publication's articles can be found in trustworthy scientific databases, it is almost probably not a predator journal.
• We'll be looking at the contents of Clarivate Analytics, Elsevier, and other respectable publisher databases first.
• Even if we don't have a membership, Clarivate Analytics gives our access to a searchable list of journals indexed in the Web of
Science database.
• If the journal in question is on the Master Journal List (https://mjl.clarivate.com/), we may be confident that it is not a
predator.
• "The Master Publication List is a helpful resource for finding the proper journal for our needs across several Web of Science
indices." The Scopus database's SCimago Journal & Country Rank
• (https://www.scimagojr.com/) is another useful resource for researchers and authors.
• The SCimago Journal Rank is free to use, and if a suspicious journal is found in the database, we
may be confident that it is not a predatory publication. SCimago (SJR), by the way, is a science
journal and nation rating database that helps academics to learn about a journal's current scientific
categorization.
• "The SCImago Journal & Nation Rank is a freely accessible platform that provides journals and
country scientific indicators derived from Scopus® database information.
• This is also compelling evidence that they should be excluded from scientific journals.
• If the journal's website claims to have an Impact Factor number but doesn't, there's little use in
looking into it further.
• For verification, researchers might utilise the Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
database.
• It must be located in the database if the journal has an official Impact Factor value.
• It’s also possible that the journal will mention that it's rated in the SCimago database. This may be
easily verified on the SCImago Journal & Country Rank portal, which is open to the public.
Journal finder / Journal suggestion tools viz.
JANE, Elsevier Journal Finder, Springer Journal
Suggest etc
• Journal finder:
• By searching using the title of the magazine in which they appear, Journal
Finder allows us to find out what databases, if any, contain the full text of
articles—and for what period spans.
• The term "Journal Finder" is a little deceptive because it may be used to
find the complete text of periodicals and newspapers as well as journals.
• Journal Finder is useful if we come across a citation (author, date, title,
etc., but not the complete text) for an article in a journal, magazine, or
newspaper while doing research and wish to discover the entire text of the
piece.
• This might happen if welcome across a citation to an article in a book.
 Journal/Author Name Estimator (JANE)

• The Journal/Author Name Estimator (JANE) is a free internet based

bibliographic journal choice instrument.
• Journal choice apparatuses, otherwise called journal coordinating or
journal correlation devices, are well known assets that assist authors with
deciding the most proper in scope journal to distribute their compositions.
• JANE is one of the earliest journal choice device.
• The asset is electronic and permits clients to include catchphrases,
conceptual text, or writer names and view related articles in light of client
provided terms.
• JANE interfaces straightforwardly with the PubMed working from the
PubMed/MEDLINE informational collection, meaning both
MEDLINE-ordered journals as well as articles stored into PubMed Central
can be recovered while looking through the asset.
• JANE's ordering rules incorporate journals from PubMed/MEDLINE that
contain abstracts distributed inside the beyond a decade.
• JANE doesn't look through classifications that are not seen as unique
exploration.
• JANE's basic inquiry interface permits clients to handily include information
into an open text box.
• The landing page search field defaults to a bigger extended "Title as well as
Abstract" search box.
• Both hunt boxes incorporate a "Show additional choices" button,
where clients can restrict results by language (English, French,
German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish); publication type
(case reports, different periods of clinical preliminaries,
meta-investigations, surveys, and so on); open access journal choices;
and journals just ordered for PubMed Central.
• Each search box likewise incorporates choices to all things considered
"Track down journals," "Track down writers," or "Track down articles"
contingent upon the question clients need to look.
• "Track down journals" recovers a rundown of journals that are generally
like the client's feedback terms.
• Journals are arranged by certainty, with Eigenfactor article impact
measurements showed when accessible.
• A "Show articles" interface is likewise shown, which recovers a rundown of
pertinent articles from every journal, recorded by certainty.
• The "Track down authors" interface shows a rundown of distributed
authors in light of the info information
 Elsevier Journal Finder

• Enter our paper's title and abstract to quickly locate journals that could be a good fit for
publication.
• Journal Finder matches our manuscript to scientific journals using clever search
technologies and field-specific vocabulary.
• Elsevier® Journal Finder can help to locate journals that could be the greatest fit for our
scientific publication.
• For further information, please see the journal's Aims and Scope.
• Finally, the Editor will evaluate whether or not piece is appropriate for the journal.
• Elsevier Journal Finder, which is powered by the Elsevier Fingerprint EngineTM, employs
sophisticated search technologies and field-specific vocabularies to match article to
Elsevier journals.
• Simply enter our title and abstract, then choose the right study field to get the best
results.
 Web of Science Journal Finder:

• Find relevant, reputable journals for potential publication of our research based on an analysis of
tens of millions of citation connections in Web of Science Core Collection using Manuscript
Matcher.
• Manuscript Matcher helps us to find the most related journals for our manuscript.
• It works best when our title has at least 10 words and abstract has at least 100 words.
• Using this information, it will pull the most relevant keywords for matching.
• The Master Journal List is a great resource for finding the proper journal for our needs throughout
the Web of Science platform's numerous indices. https://mjl.clarivate.com/home
• Web of Science Core Collection is at the heart of the Web of Science platform, spanning all subjects
and locations.
• Web of Science Core Collection comprises only publications that exhibit high levels of editorial rigor
and best practice, as selected by an expert team of in-house editors.
• we may search the Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, Zoological Record, and Current Contents
Connect specialised collections, as well as the Chemical Information products, in addition to the
Web of Science Core Collection.
Practice – II – Questions (Last date:
Nov.18th, 2024)
• 1. Access any one Open access platform and Describe its Characteristics.
• 2. Visit Indian Academy of Sciences website and highlight its advantages.
• 3. Visit Sherpa/RoMEo online resource and extract any 2 publishers
copyright.
• 4. Visit any two Predatory Publisher’s website and describe their
characteristics which are related to Predatory Publishing.
• 5. Extract the list of Journals from the following database
• (i) Scimago Journals Rank
• (ii) Clarivate Analytics Journal citation Reports

6. Work out with any two Journal finder tools and give your comments about
it.