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Researcher Development : Publishing in Open Access
| Description | Theme: Education and Research Category: Education and Research This activity is for all research active staff and would be particularly useful to Early Career Researchers. This session will be DELIVERED VIRTUALLY - joining instructions will be provided beforehand.
About this course: Open access increases visibility of research as it means your work is available to anybody that wishes to read it, without having to log in or pay. This can lead to greater readership, higher citations, increase impact of your work and stimulate new research opportunities and collaborations. The University of Exeter supports the principles of open access where legally, commercially and ethically appropriate. This virtual session will explain what it means to publish in open access, the types of publishers, and open access licensing options. Funds available to publish open access and publishers' agreements through which authors can publish without paying any publishing fees will be presented.
Learning outcomes: As a result of attending this course, you will be able to:. - Understand what it means to publish open access on the publisher websites. - Be aware of the licensing options when publishing open access. - Understand open access funding options available, how and when to request internal funds. - Learn about publisher agreements in place at Exeter through which you can publish without open access publishing fees. - Have an awareness of the risk of Predatory publishers / journals and how to spot them.
Who should attend this course: This course is recommended for all research active staff and PGRs. If you have accessibility requirements, please contact researcherdevelopment@exeter.ac.uk in advance to discuss further.
Presenter(s): Imogen Ward-Smith, Open Research Team (Library). Imogen works in the Open Research team in the Library, supporting all researchers at the University to publish open access on the publisher website, including administration of central open access funds and publisher agreements and supporting compliance with funder open access policies. https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/openresearch/support/contact/ Before the course: No preparation is required for this course. A joining link will be provided beforehand.
Learning provider: This course is administered by Researcher Development; please contact researcherdevelopment@exeter.ac.uk for more details. If you register for any of our sessions, it is expected that you will attend. If you are not able to attend please log in to the `iTrent' online system to remove your name from the relevant activity before it is due to take place. You will be expected you to attend for the whole session and for ease of administration, attendance registers will be taken at the end of each session. Should you need to leave a session early or you experience ongoing technical issues, please email ResearcherDevelopment@exeter.ac.uk. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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