LibGuides: Rhodes Digital Commons: Self-Archiving & Citation Advantage

Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving

SHERPA/ROMEO - Publisher copyright policies & Self-archiving
Sherpa Romeo is an online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies from around the world and provides summaries of publisher copyright and open access archiving policies on a journal-by-journal basis.
Use this site to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement.

Publisher permissions obtained for Rhodes eResearch Repository depositions This link opens in a new window
Publisher Policies on NIH-funded Authors This link opens in a new window
Publisher policies related to authors funded by the US National Institutes of Health.

Self-Archiving & Citation Advantage

There are indications that scholarly articles available in an open access version are more visible and are cited more often than those which are only available via the subscription journal gateway.

Benefits of Open Access for research
Open Access benefits researchers, institutions, nations and society as a whole. For researchers, it brings increased visibility, usage and impact for their work. Institutions enjoy the same benefits in aggregated form. There is growing evidence to show that countries also benefit because Open Access increases the impact of the research in which they invest public money.

What is Open Access? How can researchers benefit? This link opens in a new window
Facts and figures demonstrate how open access to scholarly research capitalizes on Internet connectivity to increase a research article’s use and impact. suggests steps authors of journal articles can take to provide open access to their work. This action can be at the local level in providing access to their own journal articles, and at a broader level to support open access publishers
Bibliography of Studies re. Citation Advantage This link opens in a new window
"The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies."

Some answers to the most common misconceptions about sharing research data
If you are a fan of data sharing, open data, open science, and generally openness in research, you’ve heard them all: excuses for keeping data out of the public domain. If you are NOT a fan of openness, you should be. For both groups (the fans and the haters), I’ve decided to construct a “Frankenstein monster” blog post composed of other peoples’ suggestions for how to deal with the excuses.