Open Access: what’s in it for

My Library?Heather

Morrison &

Andrew Waller

Alberta Library

Conference,

Jasper Park

Lodge, Alberta,

Saturday, April

25, 2009View of Jasper Park Lodge from across Lac Beauvert

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Open Access: Definition

• Literature that is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions (Suber, Overview)

• Focus: peer-reviewed journal

• Two approaches: journals and archives

• Gratis (free to read) / Libre (free to reuse)

http://creativecommons.ca/

CAUT: Retaining Copyright in

Journal Articles (Intellectual Property

Advisory July 2008:1)

Conclusion: …”to promote scholarly communication, integrity, academic freedom, and education and research activities more generally, it is important for academic staff to retain copyright in their journal articles”.

My Library website: open

access scholarship• Directory of Open Access Journals

http://www.doaj.org

• PubMed (medicine)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

• arXiv (physics) http://arxiv.org/

• RePEC (economics) http://repec.org/

• E-LIS (library and information studies) http://eprints.rclis.org/

Questions? Contact:

Heather Morrison

BC Electronic Library Network

http://eln.bc.ca

Heatherm@eln.bc.ca

The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics

http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com

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References & Links

• arXiv http://arxiv.org/

• Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) Intellectual Property Advisory July 2008 (1): Retaining Copyright in Journal Articles. http://www.caut.ca/uploads/IP-Advisory1-en.pdf

• Canadian Cochrane Centre - Free access to The Cochrane Library press release http://www.ccnc.cochrane.org/en/clib.html

• The Cochrane Library www.thecochranelibrary.com.

• Comfort, Judith. Open Access School Library. http://www.judithcomfort.ca/openhigh/

• Creative Commons Canada http://creativecommons.ca/

• Digital Medievalist http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/

• Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org

• E-LIS http://eprints.rclis.org/

• Evidence Based Library and Information Practice http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP

• International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning http://www.irrodl.org/

• Journal of Military and Strategic Studies http://www.jmss.org/

• Medline Plus http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

• PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

• PubMedCentral http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/

• RePEC Research Papers in Economics http://repec.org/

– Ideas http://ideas.repec.org/

• Peter Suber. Open Access Overview

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