open access to your content
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MARY MOLINAROASSOCIATE DEAN FOR
L IBRARY TECHNOLOGIESUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY L IBRARIES
Open Access to Your Content and Why You Should Care
What I Will Talk About
The historic publishing model
How scholarship is being transformed
Specifically what can you do to make sure your work is accessible
The System as it Was
Faculty conducted research
Faculty wrote articles
Scholarly societies
Peer review
Society published
Journals sold to the Library
What Happened?
Financial pressures on
scholarly societies
Publishers stepped in to
“help”
The System with Commercial Publishers
Faculty conduct research
Faculty write articles
Submit articles to
journal publisher
Article is published
Publisher adds profit
Journals sold back to the
Library
PROFIT
Example Titles and Cost
Journal of applied polymer science $23,661Brain research $23,606Chemical physics letters $15,626Tetrahedron letters $14,837Mutation research $14,384Journal of organometallic chemistry $13,774
The System is No Longer Working
Faculty do research
Faculty write articles
Submit articles to
journal publisher
Article is published
Publisher adds very high profit
Journal cancelled
http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/57728/
Economic Pressures on Libraries
UCSF – cancelled 118 print & 115 online subscriptions
Univ of WA – cancelled 1,600 print and electronic journals
Univ of VA – cancelled 1,169 journalsGeorgia State – canceled 441 and is
considering cancelling 1,092 moreNew Mexico State (NMSU) – cancelled 700
journal and database subscriptions
@mkirschenbaumaccording to our library, ADE Bulletin transitioning to online-only, w/ institutional subscriptions zooming from $52/yr to $850. [+]
@mkirschenbaumnatch, they're considering dropping the subscription. Sure am glad I negotiated for open access before placing my work there.
The System is No Longer Working
1. Research is publicly funded2. Authors sign away rights in order to
publish – related to tenure3. Author gets no tangible reward4. Economic barriers = decreased
access
An Access Model
Freely availableOnlineScholarly and royalty freeCan be used with minimal restrictions
-Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002)
How Scholarship is Being Transformed
An information rich environmentNew tools for collaborationFunders support sharing
Information Rich Environment
Some scholarship is digital only or can only be understood in digital form
Most scholarly literature is now created in digital form
New Tools for Collaboration
Digital scholarship facilitates interdisciplinary approaches and collaborations
Scholars can easily share information even though they are geographically separated
Rapid development of ad hoc communities of scholars
Increased Access
Open access increases research impact
Open access articles are most often cited
Increased visibility for research
Funders Support Sharing
And in some cases require it NIH – must deposit papers in PubMedCentral NSF – must submit a data management
plan FRPAA – Federal Research Public Access Act
Public policy is moving in the direction of providing taxpayers access to
research results.
Know Your Rights
It is very important that you know your rights as
an author
The Author is the Copyright Holder
You hold the copyright unless and until you transfer the
rights to someone else
Assigning your rights matters
If you transfer copyright of your work without retaining rights such
as reproduction, distribution, or modification you must gain
permission from the holder of the rights to do any of the above.
The Copyright Holder Controls the Work
If the author has not retained rights then permission must be sought to place on course web sites, copy it
for students, or to reuse portions in a subsequent work.
It’s Not All or Nothing!
An author can transfer copyright while still retaining some rights.SPARC Author Addendum can guide you through this process
http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/addendum.shtml
Strategy 1 – Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/
Strategy 2 – Open Access Repositories
Strategy 3 – Managing copyright
Ensure maximum distribution and use of scholarly
work
Strategy 4 - Advocacy
As a researcher and authorAs a reviewer As an editorAs a society memberAs a faculty memberAs a citizen
http://www.createchange.org/
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/
http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/
http://creativecommons.org/
In Summary
Publish in open access journalsTo increase use and impact of your
research deposit the work in an open repository
Know your rights as an authorAdvocate for open access
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