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Open Access: Like Free Kittens, Not Free Beer
Joseph Kraus
Penrose Library
Science & Engineering Librarian
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/peretzpup/2651224528/
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.
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.
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
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
Other variants?
• Yes, there are other types such as hybrid journals, partial open access, delayed open access and others.
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
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
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
What are publisher policies?
• Sherpa Romeo database
• http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
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
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.
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/
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/
Questions?
• Or, if you think of a question later…
• @jokrausdu
• 303‐871‐4586
• http://www.delicious.com/jokrausdu/open_access
• This presentation will be put onto slideshare with a cc license.