OPEN ACCESSFor Beginners, vol.2

Katarina LovrecicCommunity ManagerDecember, 2012

OPEN ACCESS

The IdeaThe Movement

The PeopleAssociations

Libraries and UniversitiesMandates and Repositories

Keeping Track

THE PROBLEM

DOES IT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY?

“An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an

unprecedented public good.”

The Budapest Initiative, 2001

old tradition = the willingness of scientists and scholars to

publish the fruits of their research in scholarly journals without payment, for the sake

of inquiry and knowledge

new technology = internetunprecedented public good

= world-wide electronic distribution of the peer-

reviewed journal literature and completely free and

unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars, teachers, students, and other curious

minds

A WORK MADE “OPEN ACCESS” IS...

digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Open access is made possible by the Internet and copyright-holder consent.

CODE IS LAW

Lawrence Lessig, Creative Commons co-founder

Cyberspace has an architecture = its code Code has principles, terms – it defines

what is possible in that space.

We can use this code to write new law!

CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES

COPYLEFT MOVEMENT

Others can distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work

You can choose and combine attributions: BY: author must be credited for his work SA (share alike): new creations must be

licensed under identical terms NC (non commercial): new creations can

not be used for commercial purposes

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

COPYLEFT MOVEMENT

Creative Commons, San Francisco, California

Founded in 2001 by L.Lessig et al

Share, Remix, Reuse – Legally

A documentary: RIP REMIX Manifesto

Available for free at:http://ripremix.com/

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Renewed law of copyright, 1980s: nothing falls into public domain per se

Public Domain: Works with intellectual rights expired

70 years after author's death?

Fair Use – A Fairytale?

OPEN ACCESS MOVEMENT

Access to Research is a Student Right

Student statement on the Right to Research

Student organizations involved:Advocating OA both nationally and

on campuses,Educating about OA,

Adopting OA themselves

OPEN ACCESS MOVEMENT

A revolution started by students on campuses

Turned into a global scale PUBLISHING REVOLUTION

RIGHT TO RESEARCH COALITION ACTIONStudents for Open Access:

http://www.righttoresearch.org/act/individual.shtml

(a) Open Access improves the educational experience

(b) Open Access democratizes access to research.

(c) Open Access advances research. (d) Open Access improves the visibility and

impact of scholarship.

OPEN ACCESS WEEK

The last full week in OctoberDifferent events organized around

the worldTo raise awareness about Open

Access

Become a Member:http://

www.openaccessweek.org/ Co-ordinated,Organized by

SPARC(*)

SHOW event in RIJEKA, CROATIA

SHARE OPEN ACCESS WORLDWIDE: SHOW

First OA Week in CroatiaFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rijeka

October 26-27

Official website:http://www.intechweb.org/show.html

Trailer for the SHOW Movie:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8BijrVwys

Now back to... SPARC

SPARC = international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct

imbalances inthe scholarly publishing system.

WHY LIBRARIES?

SERIALS CRISIS

Journal subscriptions fees rise. (more than 42% increase in cost for all periodicals)

Library budgets are cut.

Serials Crisis: No library can afford to buysubscriptions to all journals.

Librarians become strong advocates of Open Access

LIBRARIANS ARE...

Educating faculty about Open Access

Gatekeeping digital repositories for Open Access

journals and booksSupporting Open Access

How can librarians prove that their libraries still provide -

education?

WHICH ROAD TO FOLLOW?

Green Road to Open Access: authors perform self-archiving upon publishing a peer-reviewed journal article

Gold Road to Open Access: institutions pay for their authors' gold open access publication fees (APC)

RESEARCH IN A DIGITAL AGE

Petabytes of data circulating the web Information needed fast Information flows freely

Collaborative research vs. focused research Scientists socially “networked”

New tools available Scientist must keep track of new inventions

Metric tools for citations on the web

CAN IT BE DONE THE SAME?

MANDATING OPEN ACCESSuniversity providing funds for the articles

written by its faculty

Institutions sign to COPE http://www.oacompact.org/compact/ Compact for OA publishing equities

Accepting different COPE policies: They either mandate self-archiving or provide funds for OA gold publications written by

its facultyi.e. MIT, Harvard, Simon Fraser University,

Stellenbosch Uni, Trinity College...

MANDATING OPEN ACCESS

COPE SupportersOASPA: Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association - standards set for journal and

recently, book publishers

Giant OA Publishers: Biomed, Plos, Hindawi...

Organizations: Creative Commons, SPARC... Some Nobelists...

MANDATING OPEN ACCESS

SCOAP3 Project

Redirection of subscription money

An example of group of journals and subscribers in high-energy physics that

agree to cancel all at once their journal subscriptions and switch to OA model

Members: CERN, JINR... http://scoap3.org/

OPEN ACCESS TRACKING PROJECT

Mostly updated by Peter SuberUsing the Connotea bookmarking system:http://www.connotea.org/tag/oa.new

Quarterly newslettersOverview:

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

Find him on Google Plus

KEEPING TRACK

DOAJ – Directory of Open Acess Journals

List of OA journalshttp://www.doaj.org/

Different subjects and languagesNews, stats:

The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics

By Heather Morrison: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/

OPEN ACCESS DIRECTORY

simple factual lists about open accessMaintained by community

http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/

OASIS AND OPEN ACCESS MAP

OASIS – authoritative sourcebook on Open Access

http://www.openoasis.org/ OA Map – charting the

growth of OA globally

http://www.openaccessmap.org/

OPEN ACCESS COMMENTS

News aggregator Focus on the latest

news in the world of open access

http://openaccess.co/ Powered by

InTech Open Access

publisher

READ MORE...

Find about the sites you might like on our official blog site:

https://intechweb.wordpress.com/ Publishing world seen

through the Looking Glass. The events, the news, the people that shape the OA movement.

Thank You.