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Open Access: what’s in it for
My Library?Heather
Morrison &
Andrew Waller
Alberta Library
Conference,
Jasper Park
Lodge, Alberta,
Saturday, April
25, 2009View of Jasper Park Lodge from across Lac Beauvert
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Open Access: Definition
• Literature that is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions (Suber, Overview)
• Focus: peer-reviewed journal
• Two approaches: journals and archives
• Gratis (free to read) / Libre (free to reuse)
http://creativecommons.ca/
CAUT: Retaining Copyright in
Journal Articles (Intellectual Property
Advisory July 2008:1)
Conclusion: …”to promote scholarly communication, integrity, academic freedom, and education and research activities more generally, it is important for academic staff to retain copyright in their journal articles”.
My Library website: open
access scholarship• Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org
• PubMed (medicine)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
• arXiv (physics) http://arxiv.org/
• RePEC (economics) http://repec.org/
• E-LIS (library and information studies) http://eprints.rclis.org/
Questions? Contact:
Heather Morrison
BC Electronic Library Network
http://eln.bc.ca
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com
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References & Links
• arXiv http://arxiv.org/
• Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) Intellectual Property Advisory July 2008 (1): Retaining Copyright in Journal Articles. http://www.caut.ca/uploads/IP-Advisory1-en.pdf
• Canadian Cochrane Centre - Free access to The Cochrane Library press release http://www.ccnc.cochrane.org/en/clib.html
• The Cochrane Library www.thecochranelibrary.com.
• Comfort, Judith. Open Access School Library. http://www.judithcomfort.ca/openhigh/
• Creative Commons Canada http://creativecommons.ca/
• Digital Medievalist http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/
• Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org
• E-LIS http://eprints.rclis.org/
• Evidence Based Library and Information Practice http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP
• International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning http://www.irrodl.org/
• Journal of Military and Strategic Studies http://www.jmss.org/
• Medline Plus http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
• PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
• PubMedCentral http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
• RePEC Research Papers in Economics http://repec.org/
– Ideas http://ideas.repec.org/
• Peter Suber. Open Access Overview
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm