IEEE UK and Ireland Section Webinar | Open Access and Rights Retention Policy by Dr James Irvine, Chair, IEEE TAB/PSPB Products & Services
Funders are increasingly requiring that papers on research they fund are published Open Access (OA), allowing anyone to access the paper without a subscription. IEEE has introduced a number of new fully OA journals, supported by Article Processing Charges (APCs) known as Gold OA. IEEE also allows papers to be published in existing subscription journals on an OA basis through an APC. This is known as Hybrid OA. In addition, like many professional societies, for many years IEEE has supported Green Open Access, whereby authors can post their author accepted manuscript on institutional repositories on an OA basis, while the version of record appears in an IEEE journal without payment of an APC.
Recently, some funders have required that author accepted manuscripts for green OA are posted with a CC-BY license. Different publishers are taking different approaches to this requirement as the CC-BY license allows commercial reuse of such papers. This in turn allows new entities to create and sell competing paper archives, leaving publishers with neither subscriptions or APC income.
This webinar will introduce the IEEE approach to the issue, the Repository License Fee, as well as examining approaches from other publishers.
About the Speaker
Dr James Irvine is a Reader at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.
Currently working on security for 5G and CNI, in particular for energy network communications, he has been involved with wireless standards development since the early 1990s, and has testified as an expert witness in standards patent cases in the UK and Netherlands.
James has been an IEEE volunteer for 25 years, starting as editor of the Vehicular Technology Society’s VTS News, and has served on the VTS executive as VP Publications and President. He currently chairs the TAB/PSPB Products and Services Committee, the volunteer committee responsible for overseeing the IEEE product portfolio, including the IEEE Electronic Library and IEEE Xplore.
He is a co-author of two text books, 7 patents, and over 200 research papers.
