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Open Access to Scholarship:
Department Chairs Meeting, 29 May 2009
Brian E. C. Schottlaender
& Stefan Tanaka
ISSUES IN SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION
• Knowledge output is increasing
• Market is unsustainable economically
o library budgets tapped out
o sales are flattening
• Access is decreasing
OPEN-ACCESS LITERATURE . . .
“. . . is digital, online, free of charge,
and free of most copyright and licensing
restrictions. What makes it possible is
the Internet and the consent of the
author or copyright-holder.”
— Peter Suber
WHY OPEN ACCESS IS IMPORTANT
• Access to research
• Cost
• Increased visibility
TWO PRIMARY VEHICLES . . .
. . . for accomplishing Open Access to
scholarship:
• Open Access Journals e.g., PLoS Biology
http://www.plosbiology.org/home.action
• Open Access Repositories e.g., CDL’s
eScholarship Repository
http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/
OA EVENTS IN 2008 AND 2009
• The Wellcome Trust’s
“Position Statement in Support of Open and
Unrestricted Access to Published Research”
• “The Harvard Initiatives for Open
Access to the Scholarly Literature”
• “The NIH Public Access Policy”
• HR 801, “Fair Copyright in Research
Works Act” (a.k.a. Conyers bill)
THE NIH PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY
“The Director of the National Institutes of
Health shall require that all investigators
funded by the NIH submit or have submitted
for them to the National Library of
Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic
version of their final, peer-reviewed
manuscripts upon acceptance for publication,
to be made publicly available no later than
12 months after the official date of publication:
Provided, That the NIH shall implement the
public access policy in a manner consistent
with copyright law.”
COMPLYING WITH THE NIH MANDATE
UC ACADEMIC COUNCIL ACTIVITIES
• Encouraging the UC Libraries to
bargain hard with journal aggregators
• Informing UC faculty of Open Access
issues
• Promoting Open Access initiatives at
UC
• Promoting national legislation and
policies in the Open Access arena
UCOLASC Open Access Proposal
OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES
• The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources
Coalition (SPARC)
http://www.arl.org/sparc/
• Open Knowledge Society
http://oksociety.in/node/1
• Open Access News
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
• Association of Academic Health Sciences
Libraries Open Access Toolkit
http://www.usc.edu/hsc/nml/aahsl/open_access_tool
kit.html
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