Outputs (39)

Can open access repositories and peer-reviewed journals coexist? (2007)
Journal Article
Pinfield, S. (2007). Can open access repositories and peer-reviewed journals coexist?. Serials, 20(3),

It is often assumed that open access repositories and peer-reviewed journals are in competition with each other and therefore will in the long term be unable to coexist. This paper takes a critical look at that assumption. It draws on the available e... Read More about Can open access repositories and peer-reviewed journals coexist?.

DRIVER: Building the Network for Accessing Digital Repositories across Europe (2007)
Journal Article
Feijen, M., Horstmann, W., Manghi, P., Robinson, M., & Russell, R. (2007). DRIVER: Building the Network for Accessing Digital Repositories across Europe

O! She doth teach the torches to burn bright: How JULIET can help authors and repository advocates. (2007)
Journal Article
Smith, J. H. (2007). O! She doth teach the torches to burn bright: How JULIET can help authors and repository advocates. Aliss Quarterly, 3(1),

JULIET is a service provided by SHERPA. Its mission is to provide a brief summary of each funding agency’s policy on self-archiving of the published research they have funded. Each entry covers the requirements and details:
-Whether archiving is man... Read More about O! She doth teach the torches to burn bright: How JULIET can help authors and repository advocates..

Open Access through the Depot (2007)
Journal Article
Hubbard, B. (2007). Open Access through the Depot. Aliss Quarterly, 2(3),

The mission of "the Depot" is to provide a service that enables all UK academics to share in the benefits of open access exposure for their post-print research outputs. It does this by providing a national intake and storage facility - the Depot - fo... Read More about Open Access through the Depot.

Libraries and open access: the implications of open-access publishing and dissemination for libraries in higher education institutions (2007)
Book Chapter
Pinfield, S. (2007). Libraries and open access: the implications of open-access publishing and dissemination for libraries in higher education institutions. In R. Earnshaw, & J. Vince (Eds.), Digital Convergence - Libraries of the Future. Springer

This chapter discusses the consequences of open-access (OA) publishing and dissemination for libraries in higher education institutions (HEIs). Key questions (which are addressed in this chapter) include:

1. How might OA help information provision... Read More about Libraries and open access: the implications of open-access publishing and dissemination for libraries in higher education institutions.

RoMEO Studies 8: self-archiving: the logic behind the colour-coding used in the Copyright Knowledge Bank (2007)
Journal Article
Jenkins, C., Probets, S., Oppenheim, C., & Hubbard, B. (2007). RoMEO Studies 8: self-archiving: the logic behind the colour-coding used in the Copyright Knowledge Bank. Program, 41(2), https://doi.org/10.1108/00330330710742908

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to show how the self-archiving of journal papers is a major step towards providing open access to research. However, copyright transfer agreements (CTAs) that are signed by an author prior to publication ofte... Read More about RoMEO Studies 8: self-archiving: the logic behind the colour-coding used in the Copyright Knowledge Bank.

A Wel(l)come development: research funders and open access (2006)
Journal Article
Pinfield, S. (2006). A Wel(l)come development: research funders and open access. Learned Publishing, 19(3), https://doi.org/10.1087/095315106777877548

This paper discusses the implications of the Wellcome Trust agreement with Blackwell, OUP and Springer in which authors of accepted papers are able to pay an open-access publication charge to make their article freely available online. In bringing to... Read More about A Wel(l)come development: research funders and open access.

A mandate to self archive? The role of open access institutional repositories (2005)
Journal Article
Pinfield, S. (2005). A mandate to self archive? The role of open access institutional repositories. Serials, 18(1),

This paper argues that the best way to achieve major improvements in scholarly communication in the short and medium term is to make it mandatory to deposit research papers in open access institutional repositories. This is what the House of Commons... Read More about A mandate to self archive? The role of open access institutional repositories.

What do universities want from publishing? (2004)
Journal Article
Pinfield, S. (2004). What do universities want from publishing?. Learned Publishing, 17(4),

At a simple level, universities want publishing to support and further their mission to carry out research and teaching. However at a detailed level there are major differences within and between universities which mean there will be different wants... Read More about What do universities want from publishing?.

Self-archiving publications (2004)
Book Chapter
Pinfield, S. (2004). Self-archiving publications. In G. Gorman, & F. Rowland (Eds.), International Yearbook of Library and Information Management 2004/2005: Scholarly Publishing in an Electronic Era. Facet Publishing

This chapter discusses the historical development, current practice and future prospects of the self-archiving of research papers in open-access repositories (so-called 'e-print archives'). It describes how the development of interoperable e-print re... Read More about Self-archiving publications.