OPEN ACCESS

Presented by:

Bebe Chang (bchang1@fau.edu), Digital Projects Librarian

Kristy Padron (kpadron@fau.edu), Assistant University Librarian

Joanne Parandjuk (jparandj@fau.edu), Digital Initiatives Librarian

Florida Atlantic University Libraries

October 26, 2011

What is Open Access (OA)?

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC): • Free, immediate, availability of scholarly works

without expectation of payment • Permits any user to read, download, copy, distribute,

print, search or link to the full text of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software or use them for any other lawful purpose

Source: http://www.arl.org/sparc/openaccess/

Growth of OA Movement: Highlights

• 1960s • 1970s

Growth of OA Movement: Highlights

• 1970s • 1980s

Growth of OA Movement: Highlights

• 1990s • 2000s-2010s

WWW Software - Tim Berners-Lee: use, duplicate, modify, distribute

Growth of OA Movement: Highlights

• 2000s- 2010s

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities

Growth of OA Movement: Highlights

• 2000s- 2010s

Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition

OA Current Trends • Princeton and FSU faculty adopted open access policies • White House releases Open Government Partnership

action plan • Open Access Coalition formed by 22 Academic

Institutions • UK government announces working group on research

transparency • Innovation, Transforming Discovery, and Citizen Science

to be Highlighted at Berlin 9 Open Access Conference (November)

• Right to Research Coalition Looks to Rally Student Support for Open-Access Publishing http://www.openstudents.org

How is OA Relevant to Us? “Open access truly expands shared knowledge across scientific fields — it is the best

path for accelerating multi-disciplinary breakthroughs in research.” -- Open Letter to the US Congress signed by Nobel Prize winners

– Researchers – accelerates pace of research, discovery & innovation global

accessibility – Educational Institutions - democratizes access across all institutions –

regardless of size or budget – Businesses - stimulates new ideas, new services, new products – Public - provides access to previously unavailable materials relating to health,

energy, environment, and other areas of broad interest – Research Funders - encourages greater interaction with results of funded

research – Economics/budget – exclude publisher revenue; Go Green!

Open Access Publisher & Resources OA Publishers:

BioMed Central

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

PubMed Central (PMC)

SciELO

Open Humanities Press

Various University Presses (Rice University, University of Michigan’s open access to archived publications)

OA Resources: DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals ArXiv RePEc

How to Promote Open Access Librarians: • Launch an open-access institutional archive. • Undertake digitization, access and preservation

projects for their institutions and other organizations. • Consider publishing an open-access journal. • Weigh-in on cancelling journals that cannot justify

their high expenses. • Support the organizations that advocate Open Access.

Faculty:

• Submit research articles to OA journals.

• Negotiate the Copyright Transfer Agreement when publishing in a subscription-based publication.

• Deposit pre-prints in an open access archive or respository.

• Serve on the editorial board for an OA journal.

• See how other professional and learned societies support OA.

• Educate your professional organization on OA and propose, endorse, or support OA within the field.

How to Promote Open Access

Universities and Administrators:

• Provide open access to conferences and proceedings hosted at their university.

• Give due weight to all peer-reviewed publications, especially in promotion and hiring decisions.

• Institute policies that encourage retention of copyright.

• Encourage faculty to submit preprints, research articles, and theses to an institutional archive.

How to Promote Open Access

Statewide Open Access Initiatives in Florida:

• The Orange Grove Digital Repository

• Florida Online Journals

FAU Libraries Open Access Initiative

The Florida Geographer, Democratic Communique,

Journal of Coastal Research

• Sustainable

• Green

• Offers Immediacy & Interactive Multimedia

A digital collection of FAU scholarly created works that:

• Facilitate the dissemination of research • Brand FAU scholarship to attract new students, researchers, and

grants to the institution • Increase citation impact because research is discovered more easily • Encourage authors to retain their copyright to their scholarly

research • Create a collective body of work for both faculty accomplishments

and promoting FAU Colleges and Departments

FAU Libraries Institutional Repository

• Use of descriptive metadata, keywords, and abstracts • Creation of permanent links to works and usage statistics • Guarantees long-term item preservation through the Florida Digital

Archive • Open access to diverse materials: conference papers, poster

presentations, research articles, theses and dissertations, textbooks, FAU performances, concerts, and recitals

• Displays multiple file formats: word docs, pdfs, power points, serials, audio & video files

• Repository collection example Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute

Repository value added services:

To Contribute Contact FAU Digital Library at lydig@fau.edu7-0139