Background to Open Access Open Access: the impact for libraries and librarians 10 th December 2010...
14
Background to Open Access Open Access: the impact for libraries and librarians 10 th December 2010 Bill Hubbard
-
Upload
brandon-dunn -
Category
Documents
-
view
216 -
download
2
Transcript of Background to Open Access Open Access: the impact for libraries and librarians 10 th December 2010...
Background to Open Access
Open Access:
the impact for libraries and librarians
10th December 2010
Bill Hubbard
What is Open Access - #1
Open to read?
Open to use?
Open to re-use?
What is Open Access - #2
Publications• pre-prints• post-prints
Data
Grey literature
Conference papers
Theses
Arts multimedia
Teaching and Learning materials
. . . what else?
Why Open Access?
Many drivers . . .
Serials Crisis
Academic need
Moral case
Financial rationale
Because we can!
What Open Access is not . . .
a subversion of peer-review• but academics may want to modify current models
a replacement for publication• but the world may move that way
an invitation to plagiarism• and it might become the norm to prevent plagiarism
an attack on copyright• but it does throw up some anomalies which creators
are starting to question
Where we are so far . . .
Repositories• 1815 worldwide, 183 UK-based
Journals• 848 journals worldwide - plus hybrids
Funder policies• Publications: 54 - Data: 25
Institutional policies• 108 policies reported, plus etheses
Services and processes
Academics are in favour
Institutions are in favour
Funders are in favour
Building Open Access
What is needed are systems and workflows, not any sort of “hard sell”
Change is coming . . .
53,714,120 Papers
668,778 People
44,488 Groups16,057 Institutions
Change is coming . . .
Green and Gold - Repositories and Journals
Personal websites
Mendeley, Facebook, etc
Flickr
YouTube
Slideshare
OA repositories and journals offer control, authority, transparency and commercial clarity
Areas to examine
How does this work as a system?
Open Access and publishers
Open Access and institutions
Open Access and funders
Managing OA publishing in institutions
Managing OA repositories in institutions
OA in a wider context
Today’s speakers
Economic case for Open Access• Alma Swan, Key Perspectives Ltd
Open Access: a publisher perspective• Wim van der Stelt, Executive Vice President Corporate Strategy, Springer
Case Study of an integrated institutional approach . . . • Susan Ashworth, Assistant Director, Library, University of Glasgow
Funder Open Access policies: the Wellcome Trust• Dave Carr, Policy Adviser, the Wellcome Trust
Institutional funding for Open Access publishing• Chris Middleton, Head of Academic Services, University of Nottingham
Repository management: a new professional role for librarians• Jackie Wickham, Centre for Research Communications
University and Research Libraries in Europe: …towards Open Access• Paul Ayris, Library Director, University College, London
