Open Access Week
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Open Access Week (October 19-23) is an opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research, including access policies from all types of research funders, within the international higher education community and the general public. The now-annual event has been expanded from a single day to accommodate widespread global interest in the movement toward open, public access to scholarly research results.
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Information Links
Below are a few links to open access sites of interest
- What is Open Access? (A Brief Introduction by Peter Suber)
- OAD (a wiki about Open Access)
- SPARC Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition
- Create Change
- The Sparky Awards
- ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit
- Journal Pricing Increases
- Student Right To Research
- OAIster
- MLA Open Access
- DOAJ (a list of Open Access Journals)
- SPARC Open Access Newsletter
Latest News
September 22, 2009: The presidents of 57 liberal arts colleges released an open letter endorsing the Federal Research Access Act of 2009, a bill aimed at increasing public access to academic research that is funded by the federal government. The bill would require researchers with grants from certain federal agencies -- those that fund more than $100 million in extramural research annually -- to make their final peer-reviewed manuscripts openly available in digital repositories within six months. It would be “a major step forward in ensuring equitable online access to research literature that is paid for by taxpayers,” according to the presidents' letter. The signatories note that both faculty who wish to stay current on research and students who aspire to doctoral degrees stand to lose out as academic journals grow prohibitively expensive.
September 21, 2009: Five leading universities announced a new "Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity" in which they have pledged to develop systems to pay open access journals for the articles they publish by the institutions' scholars. In doing so, the institutions are attempting to put to rest the idea that only older publication models (paid and/or print) can support rigorous peer review and quality assurance.
Organizational Memberships
Our libraries are involved in a number of organizations which support open access or alternative funding initiatives
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| CrossRef CrossRef, the official DOI registration agency for scholarly and professional publications, harnesses collaboration among publishers to provide the scholarly community with easier access to online research content. CrossRef was established in 2000 as an independent, non-profit membership association, with a mandate to make cross-publisher linking throughout online scholarly literature efficient and reliable using the DOI system. |
| Open Content Alliance The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content. The OCA will encourage the greatest possible degree of access to and reuse of collections in the archive, while respecting the content owners and contributors. |
| Scholarly Publishing & Academic
Resources Coalition (SPARC) SPARC is conceived as a partnership project of the Association |
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