LU|Zone|UL

Making your work openly accessible

2020-03-06

Learning outcomes

• Understand how LU|Zone|UL supports knowledge dissemination
• Find and understand publisher policies for self-deposit of your work
• Deposit your work in LU|Zone|UL

Open access mandates

As of May 1, 2015, researchers must make peer-reviewed publications resulting from Tri-Council supported research freely accessible within 12 months of publication.

(English / French)

Open access journals?

APCs can be expensive

Open access journals: yes, and...

Researchers are strongly encouraged to deposit a copy of the final, peer-reviewed manuscript into an accessible online repository immediately upon publication, even if the article is freely available on the journal’s website.

(English / French)

Beyond Tri-Agency

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Canadian Cancer Society (CCS)
• Michael J. Fox Foundation
• Microsoft Research
• Wikimedia Foundation
• and many others: ROARMAP

Institutional repositories

an archive for collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual output of an institution

Preservation: reference rot

Zittrain, J., Albert, K., & Lessig, L. (2014). Perma: Scoping and Addressing the Problem of Link and Reference Rot in Legal Citations. Legal Information Management, 14(2), 88-99. doi:10.1017/S1472669614000255

Preservation: bit rot

• Regular file integrity checks
• Backups

Dissemination

• OAI-PMH is designed for dissemination; examples:
  • Google Scholar
  • Microsoft Academic Search
  • Library and Archives Canada - Theses Canada

Dissemination: impact

Review of open access citation advantage studies:

SPARC Europe. (2015). The Open Access Citation Advantage Service (OACA).

What can you deposit?

All kinds of scholarly work:

• Articles
• Audio / video / images
• Books and book chapters
• Datasets
• Learning objects
• Posters and presentations
• Reports ("grey literature")
• Theses and dissertations

Before you deposit:

• Do you have the right to deposit the work?
• Articles:
  • Check journal policies
  • SHERPA/RoMEO can help
• Books / chapters: check your publication contract

Consult your librarian!

What version of the work?

• Submitted version: before peer review comments
• Accepted version: after incorporating comments
• Published version: publisher-created version

Options for depositing your work

1. Through your librarian
2. Self-deposit

Option 1: through your librarian

1. Send the work to your librarian
2. State that you accept the LU|Zone|UL license, which:
   • Asserts that you have the right to make the work publicly available
   • Grants Laurentian the right to make copies of the work publicly available

A good approach for a large volume of work!

Option 2: self-deposit (register)

1. Register your LU|Zone|UL account:
   1. Just enter your Laurentian username in the username field
   2. You will receive an email with a verification link; click it
   3. Enter your name. Et voila!

Option 2: self-deposit (submit)

1. Sign on with your Laurentian username and password
2. Click Start a new submission
3. Fill out the description form
4. Upload your file(s)
5. Accept the license
6. Wait for the LU|Zone|UL admin to approve your submission

Bonus: vanityprofiles

• Communities and collections can have images and brief descriptive text:
  • School of Indigenous Relations
  • Richard S. Smith
  • Georges Kpazaï
• Contact your librarian :)

Pedagogical implications

If we created a simple Web-based repository, we could allow a student to first work on drafts of their assignment, then open it up to their professor or a TA for initial review, then open it up to the class to exchange their work with their classmates and participate in peer review. Outstanding work could be surfaced at wider levels of availability.

Check-in: do you / can you:

• Understand how LU|Zone|UL supports knowledge dissemination?
• Find and understand publisher policies for self-deposit of your work?
• Deposit your work in LU|Zone|UL

Slides: https://stuff.coffeecode.net/2020/luzoneul/