Open Access (OA) week 2021 is exploring how to build structural equity within the OA knowledge ecosystem. The week provides an opportunity to reflect on the aims of OA and Swinburne’s place in the developing OA world, as well as clarifying what authors need to know regarding compliance and the OA citation advantage.

After early concerns about quality and predatory publishers – OA is now mandated by many funding bodies. The NHMRC has held consultations regarding a new OA policy and the ARC has changed its policy on pre-prints (usually published as OA). And initiatives such as PlanS in Europe and pre-print services are changing the business models of academic publishers and providing new options for sharing research outputs.

Will a reliance on Gold OA, where authors pay to publish in renowned commercial journals, marginalise research from the global south? Is OA different for different disciplines? What is the impact on the humanities?  This year’s Swinburne’s OA week seminars will expand our understanding of OA at Swinburne and explore some of the wider issues around the shift to the new OA knowledge environment.
 

Research Impact and Open Access

In this session we explore citation databases available through Swinburne Library and how you can locate metrics, such as impact factor and h-index, that are commonly used as indicators of quality and research impact. We will also show how to access useful data about open access publications. There will be an opportunity for researchers to discuss their own OA experiences and ask questions.
 

Presenters

  • Dr Leanne Trembath, Manager, Research and Academic Engagement
  • Annette Steere, Library Liaison Team Leader, Health, Arts and Design, Swinburne Library
  • Kim Hodgman, Library Liaison Team Leader, Science, Engineering and Technology, Swinburne Library
  • Em Johnson, Research Services Librarian, Repository services, Swinburne Research Bank

Q&A with presenters, including Michelle Vincent, Manager Research Analytics Services, Swinburne Research

Event contact

sjbell@swinburne.edu.au

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