EUI members share the benefits of Open Access
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This Open Science Week, we asked EUI members about the benefits of Open Access for their research visibility and to explain how EUI Transformative Agreements work.
Watch the videos and read the interviews below to discover the insights they shared:
Michele Gigli, Researcher, Department of Law
Watch this short interview to hear Michele Gigli, EUI researcher, discuss his experience publishing through the EUI Library Transformative Agreements.
Jelena Dzankic, Part-time Professor, Robert Schuman Centre
Q: Do you think Open Access benefits your research visibility or impact? Why, how?
A: “Open Access has been indispensable for both visibility and impact of my research. Dealing with Europe’s neighbourhood and developing countries, one of my personal ambitions has been for my work to be read by scholars in those parts of the world. This was made possible by OA, which enabled access to scholarship to our colleagues who may have more limited access to library resources.”
Q: What are the ‘Transformative Agreements’ to publish through the EUI library?
A: “The EUI has signed Transformative Agreements with Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Springer and Wiley. These agreements, which are in force for 3-5 years, allow EUI-based authors to publish their articles in Open access without paying the journal OA fees. The agreements in place waive the fees for 8,675 journal titles, across the different disciplines in social sciences and humanities.’’
Q: Would you recommend using these agreements to other researchers?
A: “I would definitely recommend using these agreements! They work both ways – make our research more visible to others, and enhance the visibility of the work of other colleagues that we can build on and grow as scholars.’’
Annamaria Laudini, Researcher, Department of Political and Social Science
Q: Do you think Open Access benefits your research visibility or impact? Why, how?
A: “Open Access is a great opportunity to increase the visibility of my research and to reach a diverse audience, who may not always have access to academic sources. I think Open Access also helps me make my research more ethical: since I use anthropological methods, which involve collecting primary data from real living people, I feel it is very important that they can also have access to what I write. Open Access enables my interviewees and anyone who shared relevant information with me to read my work, and thus increases the transparency of the research process and my responsibility as an author in rightfully representing researched subjects.”
Q: Would you recommend using these agreements to other researchers?
A: “I would definitely recommend any researcher at the EUI and beyond to make use of the special opportunity provided by these agreements to make their research accessible to everyone, increasing its impact and outreach.”
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