How to make your own work open access

• This page is part of the Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP).
• Peter Suber wrote these notes for a talk at the Berkman Center, October 23, 2012.
• Suggested short URL for this page = bit.ly/how-oa

Publish in an OA journal

("Gold" OA)

• Find a suitable OA journal. Go to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and browse by field.
  • Some will be high in quality, impact, and prestige, and some low.
  • Some charge publication fees, and some do not. (The DOAJ will tell you whether a given journal does or doesn't.)
  • If the best journal for your purposes charges a publication fee, see whether your funder or university will pay it.
    • {http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_journal_funds Many universities] are willing to pay publication fees on behalf of faculty.
    • If you're at Harvard, apply to the Harvard Open-Access Publishing (HOPE) fund.

• Then submit your manuscript, just as you would to a conventional journal.

• If you don't find a suitable OA journal, check again when you publish your next paper. Things are changing fast.

Deposit in an OA repository

("Green" OA)

• Institutional v. disciplinary repositories

Berkman fellows may deposit in DASH but only while they're at Berkman (have an active Harvard ID) if you're at a school with no inst repository look at disciplinary repositories (arXiv, SSRN, RePEc, etc.) OAD list; also search ROAR or OpenDOAR universal repositories like Academia and Mendeley personal home page (last resort) most journals and publishers give blanket permission for green OA look up in SHERPA RoMEO but when a journal doesn't give blanket permission, request, negotiate; try an addendum work toward Harvard-style policy genres peer-reviewed research articles (primary in this talk) other: preprints, books, theses and dissertations, conference presentations, datasets, multimedia, source code, digitized content from other media policies (I may want to hold this topic until 5-10 minutes from end of session, as a way to summarize discussion and point to larger solutions; if so, tell Amar and have him give me a signal) well-written policies solve many of the problems that came up in discussion today many of you in webcast audience are at institutions without policies; many of you Berkman fellows will return to institutions without policies in addition to making your own publications OA, work toward a good OA policy at your institution SS and PS have written a guide to best practices for university OA policies; see <bit.ly/oa-best> HOAP also available for confidential, pro bono consultations

Links to send around afterwards; or, if we make a good list, send around in advance as well? OSC list of Harvard policies, <osc.hul.harvard.edu/>; inc model policy, <osc.hul.harvard.edu/modelpolicy> DASH, <dash.harvard.edu/> DOAJ, <www.doaj.org/> COPE, <www.oacompact.org/>; HOPE, <osc.hul.harvard.edu/hope> SHERPA RoMEO, <www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php> ROAR, <roar.eprints.org/>; OpenDOAR, <http://www.opendoar.org/> OAD, <oad.simmons.edu>; inc list of disciplinary repositories, <oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Disciplinary_repositories> list of author addenda, <oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Author_addenda> Guide to best practices for university OA policies, <bit.ly/oa-best> (only if already public) HOAP, <cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/> PS book, <bit.ly/oa-book>