Open Access: Like free kittens, not free beer

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Open Access: Like Free Kittens, Not Free Beer Joseph Kraus Penrose Library Science & Engineering Librarian

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Open Access: Like Free Kittens, Not Free Beer 

Joseph Kraus

Penrose Library

Science & Engineering Librarian

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• http://www.flickr.com/photos/peretzpup/2651224528/

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Some background

• Why am I talking about Open Access (OA)?– Traditional publishing is broken (See slide 5)

– Harvard has given up trying to be comprehensive (See video and slides from Dr. Shieber)

• Other than being a librarian interested in OA, I am also on the editorial board of the OA journal, Collaborative Librarianship. 

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What do I mean by the subtitle?

• Scholars need to take care of the scholarly publishing system, not just drink the free articles paid for by libraries.

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What is it?

• There are different types of OA, and many different terms are bandied about.

• Gold OA “is provided by authors publishing in an open access journal that provides immediate OA to all of its articles on the publisher's website.” [bold is my emphasis.]

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_%28publishing%29

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What is it?

• Green OA “is provided by authors publishing in any journal and then self‐archiving their postprints in their institutional repository or on some other OA website.”

• Also from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_%28publishing%29

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Other variants?

• Yes, there are other types such as hybrid journals, partial open access, delayed open access and others.

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Funding Models

• Many variants of this, too.

• Some people confuse funding models with the OA end results.– Author (or research funder) pays a fee

– Institutional sponsorship

– Advertisements support the journal

– Donations to the journal from readers

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Other Misunderstandings

• From the April 2009 SPARC Open Access Newsletter, by Peter Suber

• “The woods are full of misunderstandings about OA. They thrive in almost every habitat, and the population soars whenever a major institution adopts an OA policy.”

• http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/articles/openaccess_fieldguide.shtml

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Who?

• Peter Suber is a big proponent

• Heather Joseph from the Association of Research Libraries.  She came to speak at DUlast Fall Quarter.

• John Wilbanks (Interview and video)

• Stuart Shieber at Harvard

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Where can I find OA journals?

• DOAJ

• http://www.doaj.org/

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What are publisher policies?

• Sherpa Romeo database

• http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

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Can Faculty at DU post their articles somewhere?

• http://adr.coalliance.org/codu/fez/

• Other departments also have websites, such as the Math Department.

• http://www.du.edu/nsm/departments/mathematics/research/preprintseries.html

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Getting used to change

• Faculty want to publish in the best journals possible to get the widest circulation of their ideas.

• Some departments have lists of journals, and some OA journals are not on those lists.

• But, some faculty are seeing the light.• They want high quality peer review, copy editing, layout, and more.  They can get that with OA journals.

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Where can I get more information?

• http://libguides.du.edu/scoa

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

• http://scholcomm.acrl.ala.org/

• http://www.arl.org/sparc/

• http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation‐biblio.html

• http://openaccessweek.org/

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What is the Social Media Connection?

• Sharing is key.

• Authors are learning to retain their copyright, and to use creative commons licenses of their work.  

• http://scholars.sciencecommons.org/

• http://creativecommons.org/

• http://thepowerofopen.org/

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Questions?

• Or, if you think of a question later…

[email protected]

• @jokrausdu

• 303‐871‐4586

• http://www.delicious.com/jokrausdu/open_access

• This presentation will be put onto slideshare with a cc license.