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Open Access Views from the Research Library

Joyce Garnett

University Librarian, WesternBoard Member, Association of Research Libraries

Past President, Canadian Association of Research LibrariesFormer Health Sciences Librarian

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Overview Research library associations

Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)

Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Ontario Council of University Libraries

(OCUL) Developments: growing the movement

and sustaining momentum Challenges to scholars and researchers

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CARL Initiatives (1) AUCC-CARL Task Force – report 1996 SPARC ->Create Change -> OA

collaboration Strategic Directions

Scholarship (incl Open Access) Institutional Repositories

various software all open source, 22 participants at different stages of development

CARL Harvester maintained at Simon Fraser http://carl-abrc-oai.lib.sfu.ca:8044/

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CARL Initiatives (2) Original signatory to BOAI CARL’s brief to SSHRC urging open

access Role of granting councils in setting OA policy www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/open_access/SSHRC_OA-

consultn_brief.pdf (Nov05)

Alouette Canada Open Digitization Initiative Born digital and born again digital National metadata toolkit

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Developments -International Budapest Open Access Initiative

2001 – Open Society Institute (Andy Soros) Berlin Declaration on Open Access to

Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities 2003 - Major public funders from France &

Germany committed to open access, plus some from Greece, Hungary, Italy and Norway

World Summit on the Information Society 2003 – declaration of the need for access to

and sharing of information

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Developments – U.S. Bethesda Statement on Open Access

Publishing Major private funders of biomedical research

committed to open access Howard Hughes Medical Institute provides authors

with grant fees to pay pub’n charges (up to $3000 in FY2004)

NIH NIH –funded investigators to deposit e-copy with

PubMed Central Universities

Kansas, UCalifornia Irvine, Cornell, Columbia

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Developments - Canada SSHRC

Declaration of commitment to the principle of Open Access Oct 2004

Congress of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, June 2005

Study of current business models of SSHRC journals

CIHR NSERC NRC (CISTI) journals to .ca IDRC – first Cdn govt agency with IR

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Developments - Ontario Scholars Portal

Archiving of digital content O-Zone institutional repository CORIL learning objects repository

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Data Depositories National Consultation on Access to

Research Data (NCASRD) Sponsored by NRC, CFI, CIHR, NSERC Complements earlier study for the

Social Sciences ncasrd-cnadrs.scitech.gc.ca/NCASRDReport_e.pdf

(Jan05)

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Why Open Access? Public good – taxpayers $ Exposure – higher profile Removes barriers to access for all Third world – access for the

information poor Power of serendipity – re-discovery

and re-use of research data

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What can scholars do? Scholars as authors, reviewers, editors,

publishers Move to e-publishing Initiate open access for their society Recognize open access journals as

credible for P&T and granting decisions Support international, national and local

declarations Speak to librarians

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Further Exploration Peter Suber’s blog (searchable)

www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/fosblog.html Comprehensive bibliography

www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm Directory of OA journals

www.doaj.org/ APLSP study on Open Access

www.alpsp.org/publications/pub11.htm (Oct05) www.alpsp.org/news/GowersReview-response.pdf

(Apr06) CIBER Report for the International Association of STM

Publishers www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/papers/dni-20050925.pdf (Sept05)