Florida A&M University Open Access Initiative (FAMU-OAI)Faculty Planning ConferenceAddressing complex issues related to models of scholarly communicationsAugust 15, 2013

What is Open Access?

Open access is free, unrestricted access to scholarly resources from conference proceedings to conference posters to pre-prints to published journal articles.

Public access is granted to scholarly resources after the expiration of embargoes (i.e. restrictions).

Open access is research data dissemination and sharing congruent with copyright owners’ and publishers’ permissions.

Open Access

• Available• No Fee

• Permissible• Creative

Commons• SHERPA/RoMEO

• Accessible• Unrestricted

Use

• Digital• Abstract/Full-

text

Electronic Online

Free of Charge

Free of most © & licensing restrictio

ns

Emerging Trend

With the White House announcement on new open access policy by he Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on February 22, 2013 OSTP OA Policy, many institutions need to expand public access to federally-funded research.

Brief OA Landscape - SPARC

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resource Coalition (SPARC) – international alliance of academic & research libraries

Full, consortial, supporting, affiliate, international supporting, or European status membership

200+ North American members, 7 Canadian provinces, 45 US including the District of Columbia i.e. American University, Duke University, Florida

State University, Harvard University

Brief OA Landscape - OpenDOAR

OpenDOAR - The Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) – directory of academic open access repositories

402 United States institutions i.e. Columbia University, Library of Congress,

Cornell, University of Georgia, Auburn, Boston College, Duke University, University of Florida

FAMU Libraries OA Policy Development

University Libraries 2010-2012 Strategic Plan (Strategy 3.1.4: Addressing complex issues related to the development and use of new models of scholarly communications; Performance measure 3.1.4.1: Seek to initiate development and adoption of a FAMU Open Access Policy)

Faculty Senate Library Committee

Establish a Scholarly Communications and Research Working Group (SCRWG) (i.e. librarians, researchers, students)

Develop an OA Assessment Survey

Purpose of Future OA Assessment Survey

Current Environment

OA Surve

y

Educate

Engage

Inspire

*Future Environment

Cyberinfrastructure

Rationale & Vision

Project Management & Staffing

Broader Impacts

Network Coordination

Strategic and Long-term Considerations

Overall Assessment

Purpose of OA - Model of Scholarship (Nibert, 2008)

Discovery – Build new knowledge through traditional research

Integration – Interpret the use of knowledge

across disciplines

Application – Aid society and professions in addressing problems

Teaching – Study teaching models and practices to achieve

optimal learning

Scholarship

Goal - InterdisciplinaryCollaboration & Communication

Sciences

Social Sciences

Computer Science &

Engineering

Expose domain expertise beyond dominant discipline & enable reproducible research

Improve scholarly reach, impact & increase scholarly works citation

Develop multiple perspectives to problems common across disciplines

FAMU OAI FacilitatesScholarly Communication

Educate researchers on Creative Commons, Science Commons, & SHERPA/RoMEO to encourage a culture of OA contribution, participation, & adoption

Promote faculty research and scholarly output via an OA platform

Aggregate faculty research and scholarly output from heterogeneous sources into a central portal and/or link to related sources (i.e. link data sets with publications to discipline)

Coalition for Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI)|SPARC

The Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI) brings together representatives from North American universities with established faculty open access policies and those in the process of developing such policies.

Includes 21 universities Columbia University Duke University Harvard Florida State University MIT

Scholarly Communication – COAPI’s RFI Primary Goals

“Provide institutional information for published sources (grant IDs, funding organization, I2-Institutional Identifier, etc.)

Provide descriptive information for both the repository and published versions (Dublin, ORCID)

Support searching through keywords as well as controlled vocabulary schema appropriate to disciplines [domain sciences]

Incorporate abstracts, facilitate full text searching and web crawling, & support metadata harvesting (OAI-PMH)

Support data exchange standards (JSON) & document IP rights” (COAPI RFI, 2012, p. 9-10)

FAMU - OA IRDigital Resource Center (FDRC)

FAMU Libraries Digital Collections (584)• Gallery of Distinction (10)• The Famuan (368)• Rattler (12)• Journey (63)

• Commencement Programs (45)

• Rattler Sports (34)• FAMU History (38)• FAMU Research Bulletin

(14)

Types of OA Scholarly Content in FAMU - OA IR FDRC

Research Bulletins

FAMU History

Yearbooks

THANK YOU.

Plato L. Smith II, Librarian - FAMU Libraries

plato.smith@famu.edu