open access overview, faculty senate library committee, 10/21/08
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Open Access Publishing:What you need to know
Elizabeth BrownFaculty Senate Library Committee MeetingTuesday, October 21, 2008
Outline
What is Open Access (OA) and how does it work?
Who pays for content? Types of Open Access How does this effect the Libraries? More information
How did Open Access Happen? The internet made sharing scholarly
electronic journals cheaper and easier than in print.
Prices of journals skyrocketed during the 1990s. Few people had access to most scholarly work.
How does Open Access work?
OA journals charge authors for article submissions.
Traditional subscriptions are eliminated.
Some journals are a combination of OA and subscription content.
Some articles are kept as a subscription for a limited period of time (embargoed), then made freely available.
Open Access
Free, immediate, permanent, full-text, online access to digital scientific and scholarly material (primarily research articles published in peer-reviewed journals) for everyone.
Anyone, anywhere, anytime* can link, read, download, store, print and use the digital contents of the article.
*embargo periods may apply
Funding Models - OA
Page Charges Authors Grants, Foundations Institutional memberships
Advertising Professional Societies
conference programming individual membership dues
Library
Color Codes
Gold OA: Publisher makes material available free online from author fees or other sources.
Green OA: Author deposits article in an institutional or subject-based online archive.
What does this mean for Libraries? Fewer traditional subscriptions. More journals with a mixture of Open Access
and subscription content, usually within a single issue.
Embargo periods for journal articles will vary depending on the journal and author choice.
Authors have more direct contact with publishers – will this cut out the library?
More information
Open Access Day, October 14, 2008http://openaccessday.org/
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)http://www.doaj.org/
SPARC Open Data http://www.arl.org/sparc/opendata/
Creative Commonshttp://creativecommons.org/
Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS)http://www.opensource.org/