1. Speaking of Open Access Beth Schuck, Cline Library (April 2011)

2. Open Access Publishing is: Open access (OA) refers to unrestricted online access to articles published in scholarly journals, and increasingly also book chapters or monographs.

3. Open Access Publishing Why now? Why is it important? Why is it challenging?

4. Why now? Continuing Issues Internet/Networked communications allow for open sharing of ideas Inflationary costs for scholarly books/journals paired with decreasing funding Institutional focus on publishing for tenure/promotion

5. Why Now, continued? New Initiatives Requirements of Funders – NIH Resolutions on Open Access Publishing from faculty. (Harvard, VCU, etc.) Repositories assist in emphasizing institutional contributions during time of increased accountability

6. Why is it Important? Benefits of Open Access Rights of faculty authors’ retained in this type of model Reputation of University benefits from increased exposure of faculty output Realize international and interdisciplinary partnerships via this model and increased citation rates

7. Why is it challenging? Barriers Promotion and Tenure Traditions Prohibitive costs to authors Poor dissemination of information/benefits of open access model- (librarians included here.)

8. Why is it challenging, continued? Solutions Physics and Mathematics use of arXiv.org (@Cornell University) Cost sharing by Universities for OA fees (Berkeley, UNC-Chapel Hill) Frank discussions by faculty in departments and colleges

9. Discussion Questions?

10. OA Resources arXiv.orghttp://arxiv.org/ Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=home&uiLanguage=en Public Library of Science http://www.plos.org/ Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/ OA Bibliography http://www.digital-scholarship.org/oab/oab.htm Open Humanities Press http://openhumanitiespress.org/resources.html

11. Links to Studies related to OA Study published in 2010 showed that of the total output of peer-reviewed articles roughly 20% could be found Openly Accessible. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0011273 Bibliography of Studies on OA publishing leading to higher citation rates http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html Understanding the Serials Crisis for Libraries http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/newslettersnewsletterbucketacademicnewswire/890009-440/periodicals_price_survey_2011_under.html.csp