Gabrielle Gardiner [4], Manager of eResearch at UTS Library gave a talk last week about open access scholarship and publishing. We're very passionate about at UTS, and you should definately look at her presentation below to see why.
Vodcast: Now available to download! [5]
I liked one of the videos in her presentation so much that I've included it below - be prepared to feel inspired!
If you're not inspired - I have some more arguements that will convience you to care about open access publishing:
YOU WILL GET MORE CITATIONS
If people can access your work for free - you will have more citations.
Open access journals are ranked in the ERA
You can publish in A+ open access journals. Again because they're open access you will get cited more.
You can publish in a commercial journal and OA repositorties.
As was mentioned in the research week talk about copyright [8], please don't hand over all your rights to your publishers. Attach an author rights clause [9] to be able to put a copy of your work in our institutional repository.
Do you have conference posters or reports hanging around your office?Publish your gray literature in our UTS Scholarly Works Collection [10] to get more citations! Gray literature includes research material that doesn't usually see formal publication, such as unpublished conference papers and posters, datasets, pod and vodcasts, presentation slides.