Publishing for the 21 st Century: Open Access for Greater Impact Open Access Week 2010 October 20,...

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Open Access Week 2010October 20, 2010

October 20th Program

Publishing for the 21st Century: OA for Greater Impact

1:30 – 2:00 p.m. Keynote: “Open Access and Public

Access to Research: It’s our Mission”, Mark R. McLellan,

dean for research, IFAS

2:00 – 2:30 p.m. “The UF Open Access Publishing

Fund: How it Works and What it Means to You”,

Isabel Silver, director, academic and scholarly outreach,

Smathers Libraries, with UFOAP recipients

2:30 – 2:45 p.m. BREAK and POSTER SESSION soft

drinks

October 20th Program

2:45 – 3:30 P.M. “Maintaining Author Rights to Your

Own Intellectual Property”, Elizabeth Outler, head, public

services, Legal Information Center, College of Law

3:30 – 4:00 p.m. “Assessing the Future Landscape of

Scholarly Communications”, Sophia Acord, associate

director, Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

4:00 – 4:15 p.m. “Digital Scholarship – the IR@UF

and Disciplinary Repositories”, Dina Benson,

coordinator, Institutional Repository, Digital Library , Center

with faculty

4:15 – 4:30 p.m. Open Access Networking:

Questions and Discussion

October 22 - Program

9:30am to 4:30pm

Levin College of Law, 345 Holland Hall

Webcast: “Implementing the Durham Statement:

Best Practices for Open Access Law Journals”

Webcast, hosted on campus.

For more information, please contact Elizabeth

Outler at outler@law.ufl.edu.

New Models of Scholarly Communication

• Faculty-driven

• Reaction to the restricted flow of information Open science, open data, blogs, open access

• Reaction to traditional models of control

• Technology enables new interactions– Collaboration

– Free flow of information

– Supports distributed scholarship

Open Access Defined• Open-access (OA) literature is

– digital

– online

– free of charge to readers

– free of most copyright and licensing restrictions

– and requires the consent of, or attribution to, the author or copyright-holder

– Peter Suber, Focusing on open accesshttp://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

Why OA is so Important to Researchers

• Research is published faster• It is available online • Gives research timely visibility, wider readership,

higher citation rates, and greater overall impact. • Barriers to access are having a significant negative

impact on research • Timely, open, online access to the results of

federally-funded research in the US will significantly increase the return on the public’s investment in science

Global and National Initiatives

• UNESCO: for the benefit of global knowledge flow, innovation and socio-economic development

• 2008 NIH mandate

• 2009 introduction of Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA)

• Other funding agencies also: Wellcome Trust and

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

OA in Peer Institutions

• Many research universities have Open Access policies, encouraging or mandating faculty to submit peer-reviewed articles to Institutional Repositories.

• Some top-tiered Universities have OA publishing funds

The Need for Open Access

• Concept of “public access”: taxpayers, federal agencies, and universities pay twice for funded research

• High costs of journals are now unsustainable

• Barriers to access are having a negative impact on research

Steps Toward Open Access @ UF

• Promotion of the UF institutional repository

• Establishment an OA publishing fund

• Creation of a faculty-driven university-wide OA policy

We invite you to participate in the the Institutional Repository and Open Access Publishing Fund

Judy RussellDean of University Libraries jcrussell@ufl.edu 273-2505

Isabel SilverDirector, Academic and Scholarly Outreachisilver@ufl.edu 273-2524

Visit our website: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/

Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Mark McLellan