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Publishing for the 21Publishing for the 21stst Century: Century: Open Access for Greater Impact Open Access for Greater Impact
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