In the case of transformative contracts that allow the use of vouchers for publication in Open access, what is the corresponding author affiliated to UNIVPM?
A corresponding affiliated author means teaching and research personnel employed or otherwise formally recognized as accredited by UNIVPM. Examples include: Ordinary or associate professors, researchers (including fixed-term if the contract is active), doctoral students, postgraduate students.
Can the Open access publishing vouchers included in the active transformative contracts also be used for publishing books/ebooks in Open access?
The current transformative contracts, negotiated and concluded by CRUI and to which UNIVPM has subscribed, do not include the use of vouchers for the publication of monographs in OA.
Where can I find publishers publishing monographs in Open access?
An excellent guide to the publication of Open monographs can be found in the OAbooks toolkit.
Although the open access e-book publishing landscape is highly heterogeneous and diverse in local situations, some preferred publishing locations can be identified:
- The Italian and international universities press (ex. UCL Press).
- The “academic led press”: Editorial realities present mainly in Northern Europe, founded and managed by personale academico (ex. Open Book Publisher, Open Humanities press).
- Commercial publishers who also offer a line of open-access publications.
Please be aware that publishing costs may be required (sometimes large) and thatonly the costs of publishing the volumes online are reimbursable at Ho rizon Europe, never for publishing them in print.
There are open access monograph catalogs, which can also be consulted to find open publishers:
- Directory of Open access Books (DOAB) that indexes and searches over 44,000 monographs happensmiche and offers, among other services, an overview of the more than 660 publishers publishing open-access volumes.
- OAPEN Library: repository for free consultation of the complete text of OA volumes especially ofhumanistic and social am bito.
Answer from “s-LÉGAMI! Open access – User Manual for researchers”, edited by Matteo Di Rosa, Claudia Iasillo et al., 2022, Doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6402624
Are monographs published in Open access indexed in WOS?
Yes. Each book or book series (or other type of document) is selected individually by the WOS editorial team, and the Open access status has no impact on the selection process, so both OA and non-OA books can be selected for indexing.
The publisher of the book is not a selection criterion.
Books may be published in English or other languages, however, bibliographic data (title, abstract, etc.) must be available in English. More information about the volume selection process is available online https://clarivate.com/products/scientific-and-academic-research/research-discovery-and-workflow-solutions/web-of-science/core-collection/editorial-selection-process/web-of-science-book-evaluation-process-and-selection-criteria/
Open access is not a copyright violation, because making your work open access is perfectly legal.
Authors (or their institutions) own the original copyright of their research, but they may receive a request at the time of publication to transfer their rights to the publisher so that the publisher sets the terms for providing open access. It is advisable for researchers to choose publishers that allow them to retain copyright, so that immediate access to their works can be provided. If, however, the publisher does not allow its rights to be maintained, it may be useful to consider negotiating the publication agreement with the addition of an addendum.
What rights does the author have?
Non-transferable moral rights (intellectual paternity, integrity, withdrawal from the market) and economic use rights which may be transferred in part or exclusively, free of charge or against payment (distribution, communication, reproduction, translation and all reuse rights,). In the case of works published with funding from the University, the University could be the holder of economic exploitation rights, while the author always retains moral rights.
What rights does the author waive by signing a contract with a publisher?
Under Italian law, the edition contract may last a maximum of 20 years.
Generally, based on standard contracts, the author cannot:
- reuse, review or adapt the work;
- reproduce copies of the work for educational purposes;
- make the work accessible in an online archive.
The publisher may also, in the course of the contract, reserve the (exclusive) right of first refusal – for a period of 10 years – over the author’s subsequent works, preventing him from publishing with another publisher.
What tools does the author have to maintain rights of use?
Creative Commons licenses to protect one ’s work on the Internet and Addenda to Editorial contracts, i.e. additions in which the author reserves certain rights (e.g. re-use for educational purposes or self-archiving in the institutional repository).
What are Creative Commons Licenses?
CC licenses are based on the concept of “some rights reserved”, whereby the holder decides which rights to reserve and which to grant for use. The Creative Commons project has created six different types of licenses, from the most permissive—the "attribution" license—to the least permissive, the "non-commercial" license. Follow the links to find out the terms of each license:
- CC-BY (attribution): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.it
- CC-BY-ND (attribution – not derivative works): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/deed.it
- CC-BY-SA (Attribution – share the same way): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.it
- CC-BY NC (attribution – non-commercial): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.it
- CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution – non-Commercial – share alike): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.it
- CC BY-NC-ND (attribution – non-commercial – not derivative works): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.it
Licenses can be applied to your jobs by selecting them using the online form in http://creativecommons.org/choose/?lang=en
What is meant by an institutional open access archive?
It means an electronic file that stores and makes available to the public the products of researchers of an institution. It is not a magazine but a container of articles that can be published in other locations. The Polytechnic University of Marche has the Iris repository.
What is meant by a disciplinary open-access file?
Means an electronic file that holds the work of researchers from a given discipline or group of disciplines, regardless of the institution to which they belong. ArXiv, RePEc, SSRN, PubMed Central are some of the best known archives.
How do I choose an Open access magazine?
In general, the same factors apply when selecting an open-access magazine as when choosing a traditional magazine to publish your Article.
In addition, there are some specific resources that can be consulted:
- The Directory of Open access Journals (DOAJ), where magazines must perform quality control on the documents submitted and meet a number of other selection criteria.
- The Open access scholarly Publisher's Association (OASPA) where you can check whether the publisher is a member of it or whether the magazine adheres to the OASPA Code of Professional Conduct.
- The principles of transparency and Best practice in scholarly Publishing, a list of criteria developed jointly by DOAJ, OASPA, the Committee on publication Ethics (cope), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), to help evaluate the magazine based on its satisfaction.
Note: To comply with the Horizon 2020 Open access mandate, publications must be deposited in an open access repository, even when choosing to publish in an open access journal.
What is predatory publishers and how can they be avoided?
These are those publishers who use Open access for their profit. In some cases, they publish the results of research carried out by scientists for a fee, without guaranteeing a real peer review.
To avoid these problems, you should always check whether the magazine you choose is reputable by taking a few steps:
- don't trust unsolicited emails;
- view the recent publications of the magazine;
- Ensure that the magazine has a validated ISSN;
- check for companies affiliated with the magazine;
- Check if the magazine is listed in the DOAJ
- Check if the publisher is a member ofOASPA or cope?
What are APCs?
Article Processing charges are the costs of processing the Article for publication in Open access. The author or research entity must pay the publisher to be able to publish in Open access journals upon request or in traditional journals offering Open choice. Only 27% of Open access magazines ask for APCs which can range from $500 to $2900 per Article.
Do I have to pay to publish in OA?
If you deposit in a Repository or choose an OA magazine that does not charge APC, you can publish in Open access at no cost.
Within Horizon 2020, APCs are eligible costs and therefore reimbursable provided they have been included in the budget of your project proposal.APCs for projects included in FP5 7 ° could also be eligible for funding through the post-grant Open access publishing funds pilot.
In the event that your research institution has entered into a transformative Read&Publish contract with a commercial publisher, the costs of publishing in Open access in its hybrid journals will be absorbed in the contract and therefore borne by your institution.
Do UNIVPM authors have any facilities to publish in open access?
Yes. Thanks to the signing by the University Documentation Centre of national transformative contracts with major scientific publishers, UNIVPM authors can publish free of charge in OA in their hybrid journals. Publication costs are borne by CAD as part of the magazine subscription agreement. The list of publishers with whom it is possible to publish in OA is published HERE
What is Pre-Print?
It is the draft of the Article that the researcher sends to the magazine for submission and does not contain the comments of the reviewers (in the call for the VQR it is indicated as submitted print)
What is Post-Print?
It is the final, revised version of the Article: It contains the comments of the reviewers but does not have the editorial look (in the call for the VQR it is indicated as authors’accepted manuscript).
What is editorial pdf?
It is the final published version, with graphic and editorial layout (in the call for VQR it is indicated as version of record)
What is the embargo?
This is a period of time imposed by the publisher, in which the Article, although deposited in an open-access file, is not visible. It is calculated from the exit of the online file (not from the filing) and applies to the permitted version, not to the editorial pdf. The repository generally unlocks the file on the embargo end date you set.
What is FAIR data?
The data to be able to meet the expectations of the European Commission and Open Science policies in general must be:
- Findable: described and traceable using standard metadata sets (e.g. Dublin Core) recognized by different disciplinary communities. They must also adopt unique identifiers (e.g. Doi);
- Accessible: always and in any case accessible to those who request it and open as often as possible. “Accessible” does not mean “open”: FAIR data may be closed for different reasons such as security or privacy reasons;
- Interoperable: they must be able to be read and reworked by systems that comply with the FAIR principles;
- Reusable: accompanied by a license explaining which uses are allowed and all the documentation necessary for their reuse (methodology, tools used, etc.)
How do I open my search data?
To open your search data, you can store it in dedicated repositories. Some repositories, such as Zenodo, accept both publications and data sets.
Data repositories allow you to provide persistent links to your data sets so that they can be cited, linked, and tracked. Just like other publications, you can license your data to define the level of re-use allowed.
OpenAIRE recommends Creative Commons CC0 Waiver or CC BY for open access to data, allowing maximum reusability and interoperability.
What is ORCID and how is it obtained?
The ORCID ID is a unique and open (non-proprietary) identifier that allows the identification of each researcher in a unique manner to enable an effective link between databases that record their production and scientific activity. ORCID addresses ambiguity and homonymy issues, manages all affiliations associated with your name, as well as those related to your professional career (including projects and funding). In addition, thanks to integration with Web of Science and Scopus, the researcher can easily populate his author profile with all indexed publications in the two databases.
The identifier can be obtained free of charge through a simple registration procedure on the www.orcid.org website that does not require official certification of institutional membership and role.
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