Open Access

Stian Håklev IgniteAlbertaFebruary 22, 2013

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What?Why?How?

What?

Self-archive (green)

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo

OA journals (gold)

Why?

Expanded access and lower costs for academics and researchers everywhere

Expanded access and lower costs for academics and researchers everywhere

Whether at top institutions, or community colleges,

whether in Beijing or Varanasi

Giving the broader public access to our research

Are the public really interested in access? A few examples...

Wikipedia is a great academic resource - as a starting point for further research

More and more learners are turning to open courses, and need open materials

20,000+ students will be accessing OA articles as part of their course

Enabling new forms of communicating and organizing scholarly output

OA makes articles more accessible,even for those who already have access

“One of the main points behind doing threads was to bring the companion papers together with the main papers. To make it work you needed to make all of the papers open access. This could just not be done without the papers being open access.”

A paper isn’t necessarily the best “unit of organization”

Adding meaning to articles, enabling knowledge to be mapped out

Opening the scholarly process, pre-publication

How?

What can be done by...

Individual researchersInstitutions

Faculty unions and Graduate Student UnionsAcademic societies

Journal editorsProvincial governments

Funding bodies (SSHRC etc)

Support and publish in Open Access journals when possible

Try to retain copyright when publishing in toll-access journals

Spread the idea, organize as knowledge producers, in societies, etc.

Become active in organizations that support Open Access

Promote OA policies and mandates at departments and institutions

Support funder mandates and funding for OA journals

Announced today, covers NSF, Ed, EPA, NASA, USDA, HHS, Commerce, Interior, Defense, Energy, Trans, DHS, Ag, State,

Smithsonian

To develop implementation within 6 months, max 12 months embargo, covers both articles and data

Support reform of hiring, promotion and tenure policies to encourage OA

Thank you!

Stian Håklev shaklev@gmail.com@houshuang

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