#greenopenaccess — Public Fediverse posts

@karlcx I had about 10 years at the helm of a research journal. Quite a time. The first "biggie" I had was making the editorial board realise they actually had an online journal that printed bound volumes, that were only being subscribed to by libraries and dinosaurs, and it was costing us big bucks.

#AJIS #GreenOpenAccess #CreativeCommons

To achieve 100% #OpenAccess, you need to engage with issues on repositories and #GreenOpenAccess route. This is where libraries can support #OA100. 👇

Librarians, let's talk repositories and Green #OpenAccess. 📣
What makes a repository an essential OA tool? Strong regulations. The #GreenOpenAccess route (via repositories) is the most sustainable path to 100% OA. It needs legal muscle.
Are you seeing national or local mandates? Share insights #OA100.👇

📑 “Incentives accelerate progress on open access in Spain” published by @nature.com, highlights Spain’s leadership in #GreenOpenAccess. Pilar Paneque from #ANECA, underscores the significance of reforming the #sexenios evaluation system 👇 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03276-1 #OAWeek

When should I preprint my work?

People often come up to me and say, “Dermot, do you have the money now?”* But other times they will come up to me and ask “Dermot, when should I preprint my work?” This is a great question, and the general answer is, “whenever it suits you best”.  The important thing is that your work is out there, unpaywalled, and accessible to the world. So the specific timing might be more down to individual preferences, journal policies (like time-limited embargos), or some other factors.

But, by and large, there is nothing to stop you preprinting your own work, and at a time of your choosing.  There may be exceptions, but they will represent a tiny minority of cases. Here’s a nice introduction to preprinting – that covers motivations and advice for how to get started with preprinting your work.

So when and why do people decide to preprint? Let’s look briefly at different stages of the publication cycle and think why you might want to preprint your work at each point.

At the draft stage?

You can preprint your work before or after your first submission to a journal to get your fully-formed ideas out in the world as soon as possible, with a DOI, and time-stamped confirmation! It provides opportunities for early feedback, increased exposure, and let’s you claim precedence for your ideas.

After a round of reviews?

When you’ve revised a paper, you can preprint what is likely to be an almost final version that you know has had peer feedback. So, it’s still being released well before it appears “in print”, but with the knowledge that you’ve had input from your peers.

When it’s been accepted for publication?

Although later in the publication process, preprinting at this point can still be months before a journal version appears online, so it’s still really worthwhile doing it. And preprinting at this stage perhaps gives authors added confidence, knowing it’s been formally accepted and having gone through a full peer-review process.

Post-publication?

Even if your paper has been published, you can still “Preprint” (or postprint) your non-formatted manuscript version. This has the advantage that your work will remain freely accessible through “green open access”, even if the journal version is behind a paywall. An added bonus is that you don’t have to pay exorbitant fees to a publisher to make your work open access.

I think that more important than when you preprint, is that you do preprint, making your work open and accessible to all. If you’re looking for a place to preprint your work, there are lots of options from very general repositories like Zenodo or OSF Preprints, discipline-specific ones like the PsyArXiv, ArXiV, BodoArXiv, or AgriArXiv (see here for lots more preprint communities), or even region-specific repositories like AfricArXiv. So, if you haven’t preprinted before, make this the year that you do!

Dermot Lynott is an Associate Professor at Maynooth University, and the current chair of the PsyArXiv Scientific Advisory Board.

* I think I originally heard Dylan Moran make this joke, so thank you Dylan!

#greenOpenAccess #openAccess #openResearch #openScience #preprint #publishing

eine sehr sinnvolle Fortentwicklung der 'Kleinen Schriften': Zweitveröffentlichung der Publikationen als Festgabe. Das freut den Gefeierten und nützt allen anderen.

#GreenOpenAccess #openaccess

via @huss
https://mstdn.social/@huss/113612375718283440

@jplie @ZBW_MediaTalk Richtig ist, dass #GreenOpenAccess klassische Erwerbungsmodelle stützt, weil nur sekundärer #OpenAccess erfolgt. Ich finde das nicht unbedingt falsch. GoldOA ist diskriminierend (wer zahlt die 8.000 EUR für eine Monographie?), verursacht explodierende Kosten, hat kein flächendeckend funktionsfähiges Modell für #Monographien und benachteiligt viele Wissenschaften abseits von #MINT und Medizin. #OpenAcces ist doch kein Selbstzweck.

@jplie @ZBW_MediaTalk Das halte ich für einen argumentativen Pappkameraden. #GreenOpenAccess bedeutet schon lange #Repositorien. Auffindbarkeit über Katalogisierung oder Browseraddons wie #Unpaywall. Selbstarchivierung auf Webseiten von Autorinnen und Autoren ohne Nachweis war vor >15 Jahren mal.

Ich glaube ja immer noch an die Potenziale von #GreenOpenAccess. Auch wenn ich damit inzwischen zu einer Minderheit gehöre.

Ich habe Bauschmerzen damit, die Backlist einer Reihe nochmal für #OpenAccess freizukaufen. Duncker&Humblot will also nochmal knapp 40.000 EUR für schon lange publizierte und abverkaufte Titel. Für ältere Titel sollte #GreenOpenAccess selbstverständlich sein. Ich unterstütze das aus meinem Etat nicht. So sehr ich auch die ZHF schätze.

https://www.duncker-humblot.de/c-879

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One may imagine a company (or a public body whose freedom is under attack) making efforts for that URI to become as fragile/inaccessible as possible, so that controlling the digital copy would suffice to impede the originally free work to be accessed without "permission"

A potential solution might be to amend the CC-BY license, so that the concept of #DigitalPreservation is included

As authors (weak proxy): #GreenOpenAccess archives for long-term preservation

Higher level: legislation

Jumping on board @Infoventurer's #GLAMread series... One for the #InstitutionalRepository #OpenAccess #GreenOpenAccess crowd:

Quigley, N., Chan, J., Clift, J. (2022). The role of Australian institutional repositories in sharing academic research: Research report. Curtin University Library. https://doi.org/10.25917/S5A6-R623

📢 New paper out in Animal Behaviour: "Costs and benefits of isolation from siblings during family life in adult earwigs".

We investigated the intriguing hypothesis that the benefits of sibling interactions for juveniles promote the maintenance of family life in insects.

Our answer is here -> https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347222002433?dgcid=author

The #GreenOpenAccess version is available here ->
https://hal-univ-tours.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03796580

Here's our new account for The American Naturalist, scholarly journal of evolutionary biology and ecology, pioneer of #OpenData , affiliated with American Society of Naturalists and our nonprofit publisher (UChicago Press). All articles #GreenOpenAccess compatible.

The most powerful scientific instrument in existence is the human brain. For this reason many developing countries with very low government budgets for #STEM are doing science of the highest quality.

Let us not now allow the "pay-to-publish" model to dilute their precious contributions, erase their views and silence their valuable opinions.

#greenopenaccess #OpenAccess