1. Open Access: Like Free
Kittens, Not Free Beer
Joseph Kraus
Penrose Library
Science & Engineering Librarian

2. • http://www.flickr.com/photos/peretzpup/2651224528/

3. Some background
• Why am I talking about Open Access (OA)?
– Traditional publishing is broken (See slide 5)
– Harvard has given up trying to be comprehensive
(See video and slides from Dr. Shieber)
• Other than being a librarian interested in OA, I
am also on the editorial board of the OA
journal, Collaborative Librarianship.

4. What do I mean by the subtitle?
• Scholars need to take care
of the scholarly publishing
system, not just drink the
free articles paid for by
libraries.

5. What is it?
• There are different types of OA, and many
different terms are bandied about.
• Gold OA “is provided by authors publishing in
an open access journal that provides
immediate OA to all of its articles on the
publisher's website.” [bold is my emphasis.]
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_%2
8publishing%29

6. What is it?
• Green OA “is provided by authors publishing
in any journal and then self‐archiving their
postprints in their institutional repository or
on some other OA website.”
• Also from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_%2
8publishing%29

7. Other variants?
• Yes, there are other types such as hybrid
journals, partial open access, delayed open
access and others.

8. Funding Models
• Many variants of this, too.
• Some people confuse funding models with the
OA end results.
– Author (or research funder) pays a fee
– Institutional sponsorship
– Advertisements support the journal
– Donations to the journal from readers

9. Other Misunderstandings
• From the April 2009 SPARC Open Access
Newsletter, by Peter Suber
• “The woods are full of misunderstandings
about OA. They thrive in almost every habitat,
and the population soars whenever a major
institution adopts an OA policy.”
• http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/articles
/openaccess_fieldguide.shtml

10. Who?
• Peter Suber is a big proponent
• Heather Joseph from the Association of
Research Libraries. She came to speak at DU
last Fall Quarter.
• John Wilbanks (Interview and video)
• Stuart Shieber at Harvard

11. Where can I find OA journals?
• DOAJ
• http://www.doaj.org/

12. What are publisher policies?
• Sherpa Romeo database
• http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

13. Can Faculty at DU post their articles
somewhere?
• http://adr.coalliance.org/codu/fez/
• Other departments also have websites, such
as the Math Department.
• http://www.du.edu/nsm/departments/mathe
matics/research/preprintseries.html

14. Getting used to change
• Faculty want to publish in the best journals
possible to get the widest circulation of their
ideas.
• Some departments have lists of journals, and
some OA journals are not on those lists.
• But, some faculty are seeing the light.
• They want high quality peer review, copy
editing, layout, and more. They can get that
with OA journals.

15. Where can I get more information?
• http://libguides.du.edu/scoa
• http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
• http://scholcomm.acrl.ala.org/
• http://www.arl.org/sparc/
• http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation‐biblio.html
• http://openaccessweek.org/

16. What is the Social Media Connection?
• Sharing is key.
• Authors are learning to retain their copyright,
and to use creative commons licenses of their
work.
• http://scholars.sciencecommons.org/
• http://creativecommons.org/
• http://thepowerofopen.org/

17. Questions?
• Or, if you think of a question later…
• joseph.kraus@du.edu
• @jokrausdu
• 303‐871‐4586
• http://www.delicious.com/jokrausdu/open_access
• This presentation will be put onto slideshare with a
cc license.