Open Research (OR) = Open, live collaboration of the research cycle.
What separates open research from open access and open data?
Open research is unlike open access and open data as it is expected to change and grow with the fruition of the project.
What is the issue at hand?
US implement of an Open Access (OA) policy.
Who is talking about the issue?
Many researchers and organizations are being impacted by open access mandates from all over the world. The European nations took a strong stance in support of open access research publications and recently the US has joined this movement, although with not as heavy of a mandate.
What organizations/institutions do they represent?
Mainly STEM research will have an immediate impact by these mandates, but anyone who receives more than 1million in research funding from the US government in one year must complete and follow a plan to accomplish open access.
Where can we go for more information about this issue?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding-public-access-results-federally-funded-research
To start my search I complete a Google basic search for “open science research journal.” With a description that seems to meet my needs I chose the link, http://www.scirp.org/journal/OpenAccess.aspx, which leads me to: http://www.scirp.org/. Because I was un-familiar with their collection list, I searched journals by subject. One of the first journals listed was directly on topic, Advances in Parkinson’s Disease, http://www.scirp.org/journal/apd/. As this is a dominant illness within my husband’s family I focus my search for articles that may help with “prevention.”
The articles are clearly open access with all showing the open access icon. Their copyright guidelines give all of their articles the creative commons attribute license.
A. Patil, S. , Apine, O. , Surwase, S. and Jadhav, J. (2013) Biological sources of L-DOPA: An alternative approach. Advances in Parkinson’s Disease, 2, 81-87. doi: 10.4236/apd.2013.23016.
Johnson, L. , Putrino, D. , James, I. , Rodrigues, J. , Stell, R. , Thickbroom, G. and Mastaglia, F. (2013) The effects of a supervised Pilates training program on balance in Parkinson’s disease. Advances in Parkinson’s Disease, 2, 58-61. doi: 10.4236/apd.2013.22011.
Qi, Z. and Voit, E. (2013) Systems biology provides new tools for addressing Parkinson’s disease. Advances in Parkinson’s Disease, 2, 69-69. doi: 10.4236/apd.2013.23013.
Using “How Open is It?” as a reference, I will assess the openness of the Undergraduate Journal of Mathematical Modeling: One + Two based on:
Free readership rights
to all articles immediately
upon publication
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/ujmm/all_issues.html
Reuse, remixing, &
further building upon the work
subject to certain restrictions
& conditions (e.g., CC BY-NC
& CC BY-SA licenses)
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/ujmm/about.html
Publisher holds copyright,
with some allowances for
author and reader reuse of
published version
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/ujmm/policies.html
Author may post
any version to any
repository or website
automatic posting
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/ujmm/policies.html
automatically available in trusted
third-party repositories (e.g.,
PubMed Central) immediately
upon publication
LOCKSS member. Digital Commons, http://network.bepress.com/.
Article full text, metadata, citations, &
data, including supplementary data,
provided in community machinereadable
standard formats through a
community standard API or protocol
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/do/oai/?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=publication:ujmm
This journal rates the highest level of access in all but two areas, where they place user usage restrictions of Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 license and require publisher attribution with author reuse. This journal can be accessed directly at http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/ujmm/. It is also indexed down to the article level within DOAJ: http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=search&template=&uiLanguage=en&query=Undergraduate+Journal+of+Mathematical+Modeling&filter=media%3A%22journal%22&filter=media%3A%22article%22.
Reference
2013. PLOS. Open Access Spectrum (OAS) grid. http://www.plos.org/about/open-access/howopenisit/
2013. UJMM: One + Two. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/ujmm/
Open Access (OA) = Scholarly work(s) allowed to be perpetually accessed by anyone under a rainbow of permissions.
What makes OA green or gold? How about gratis or libre?
I choose not to define OA as simply gold/green or gratis/libre, as I have seen many variations other than two. In fact, Sherpa/Romeo defines journal publisher policies as green, blue, yellow, and white:
| ROMEO colour | Archiving policy |
| green | can archive pre-print and post-print or publisher’s version/PDF |
| blue | can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing) or publisher’s version/PDF |
| yellow | can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing) |
| white | archiving not formally supported |
But why stop there. I would say there are even more “colors” out there. Comment below and lets begin the discussion to define this rainbow of permissions. What colors would you add and how would you describe them?
Red, Orange, Yellow, White, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet, Pink, Grey, Brown, Black.
Reference
2013. University of Nottingham. RoMEO colours. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/definitions.php?la=en&fIDnum=|&mode=simple&version=#colours
odonlife 