Lecture on Open Access Publishing, Self archiving, Predatory publishing issues, and Journal selection tools by V. Sriram. Research and Publication Ethics Course, PhD Programme, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. 25th August 2021.

1. Open Access Publishing
V. Sriram
Chief Librarian
AE320 : Research & Publication Ethics
PhD Programme
Centre for Development Studies
Thiruvananthapuram, India
25th August 2021

2. Contents
 Open Access
 OA Publishing
 Self-archiving and SHERPA-RoMEO
 Avoiding Predatory Publishers
 Avoiding Predatory Publishers
 Tools for journals selection

3. Open Access
 Articles are free to all interested readers
 No copyright barriers between the readers
and the article.
 OA stands for unrestricted access and
 OA stands for unrestricted access and
unrestricted reuse
 OA Policies of funders to higher education
institutions
 OA Initiatives

4. OA Publishing
 Gold OA
 Hybrid OA
 Green OA
Diamond OA
 Diamond OA

5. OA Benefits
 Accelerated discovery
 Inclusive
 Faster research
Global visibility
 Global visibility
 Knowledge economy
 Immediate use

6. Misconceptions about OA
 Author loses copyright
 No peer review
 Not indexed in global DB
 No impact factor
 Extra work by authors to self-archive
 Spamming by predatory publishers
 Non availability of good OA in all
subjects

7. OA Publishers
BioMed Central publishes 272 peer-
reviewed open access journals.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
Public Library of Science (PLOS)
Public Library of Science (PLOS)
http://www.plos.org/
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
http://doaj.org/ (More than 16620 journals)

8. Self Archiving
What?
 Authors make their articles freely available on
the Internet.
 Versions : –
Preprint
Post print - Author
Post print - Publisher

9. Self Archiving
Why?
 Articles made available openly are read and
cited more.
 Several funding agencies required that the
publications financed by them should be
available for free for everyone.

10. Self Archiving
How?
 Self-archiving by :
Author’s website,
Subject archives,
Institutional archive.
Institutional archive.
 Awareness about publisher policies on
archiving.
https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-
resources/Journal-Authors/licensing/self-
archiving.html

11. Sherpa Romeo

12. Predatory Publishers
 Several publishers publish counterfeit
journals to exploit open access model.
 They lack transparency. Quality of
publications are poor, and questionable.
 Scholars and researchers also take
 Scholars and researchers also take
unethical shortcuts and try to publish by
paying.

13. https://ugccare.unipune.ac.in/

14. Find the right journal
 Journal website
 Editor / Editorial Board Members
 Journal coverage / objectives
 Journal Indexing Services, DOAJ, COPE
 Peer review process, timelines to publish.
 Peer review process, timelines to publish.
 Read the past issues of the journal
 UGC – CARE List of Journals
 Think! Check! Submit!

15. Tools for Journal Selection
 Elsevier Journal Finder
https://journalfinder.elsevier.com/
 JANE https://jane.biosemantics.org/
 Journal Finder
https://journalfinder.wiley.com/
Manuscript Matcher
 Manuscript Matcher
https://endnote.com/product-
details/manuscript-matcher/
 Open Journal Matcher https://ojm.ocert.at/
 Springer Journal Suggester
https://journalsuggester.springer.com/

16. Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!
V. Sriram
vsrirams@gmail.com