Open AccessSome Thoughts on the #OA Movement

& Your (Possible) Place in It

Jen Jack Gieseking American Studies

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Defining OA: a Public Humanities Perspective

• The free, immediate, online availability of knowledge via research articles, blog posts, tweets, and other documents

• The rights to use these materials fully for education, business, government, etc. purposes in both digital and material environments

• The ability to self-define copyright to one’s knowledge and have that copyright respected

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Funding OA

• Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) sponsors OA International Week, founded by Association of Research Libraries & membership run

• Open Society Foundations sees open access knowledge and education as inherent to its mission, a la George Soros

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OA for STEM

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OA for SocSci

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OA for Hum

• Open Humanities Press (UK)

• SSRN welcomes all!

• Digital Humanities Quarterly, et al.

How to Be Part of OA

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How to Be Part of OA

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Questions & comments:

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Thank you.