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Strategies for Fostering a Culture of Open Access: Reports from the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions Martin Halbert, Dean of Libraries University of North Texas CNI Spring 2013 Meeting, San Antonio, TX Friday, April 5, 2013

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Page 1: Martin Halbert, Dean of Libraries University of North Texas CNI Spring 2013 Meeting, San Antonio, TX Friday, April 5, 2013

Strategies for Fostering a Culture of Open Access:

Reports from the Coalition of Open Access Policy InstitutionsMartin Halbert, Dean of LibrariesUniversity of North TexasCNI Spring 2013 Meeting, San Antonio, TXFriday, April 5, 2013

Page 2: Martin Halbert, Dean of Libraries University of North Texas CNI Spring 2013 Meeting, San Antonio, TX Friday, April 5, 2013

COAPI Strategies for Fostering a Culture of Open Access

The Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI)

Formed in 2011, comprised of 52 North American universities with established open access policies or developing such policies. Aims: share information and experiences to illuminate opportunities for moving

faculty-led open access forward at member institutions

advocate for open access nationally and internationally

http://www.arl.org/sparc/about/COAPI 4/5/13

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Page 3: Martin Halbert, Dean of Libraries University of North Texas CNI Spring 2013 Meeting, San Antonio, TX Friday, April 5, 2013

COAPI Strategies for Fostering a Culture of Open Access

UNT Open Access Timeline 2010: University Open Access Policy Committee co-

chaired by Dean of Libraries and Assoc. Dean of College of Information

2011: the University of North Texas Faculty Senate voted to approve the UNT Policy on Open Access to Scholarly Works

2012: UNT offices of General Counsel and System Chancellor’s office implement official university policy 17.5 (Policy for Open Access, Self-Archiving and Long-Term, Stewardship for UNT Scholarly Works)

2012-2013: Fostering a culture of OA comprehensively across the university

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Page 4: Martin Halbert, Dean of Libraries University of North Texas CNI Spring 2013 Meeting, San Antonio, TX Friday, April 5, 2013

COAPI Strategies for Fostering a Culture of Open Access

UNT Open Access Symposia 2010 Symposium: Broad overview of OA

topics, scholars & publishers, keynote Stevan Harnad

2011 Symposium: Relationship of Open Access and Open Source SW, keynote John Willinsky

2012 Symposium: Open Access to Publicly Funded Research Data, keynote Myron Gutman

2013 Symposium: OA and the Futures of Academic Publishing, keynote Kathleen Fitzpatrick

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Page 5: Martin Halbert, Dean of Libraries University of North Texas CNI Spring 2013 Meeting, San Antonio, TX Friday, April 5, 2013

COAPI Strategies for Fostering a Culture of Open Access

New Library Positions with OA-related roles and responsibilities

Repository Librarian: Charged with actively identifying and gathering and depositing in UNT Scholarly Works Repository copies of faculty research papers

Scholarly Communication Librarian: (lawyer and librarian) advises faculty on OA issues and conducts campus OA awareness programs

Born-digital Collection Development Librarian: Actively seeks to cultivate and improve visibility and access to OA resources

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Page 6: Martin Halbert, Dean of Libraries University of North Texas CNI Spring 2013 Meeting, San Antonio, TX Friday, April 5, 2013

COAPI Strategies for Fostering a Culture of Open Access

Some not-bad practices noted along the way

Smaller OA advisory sessions Provide handouts with information to

take away (about the SPARC addendum, services)

Maintain an effective website with links and additional information

Explain to faculty how open access potentially increases their citation count and fosters wider dissemination of their scholarship

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Page 7: Martin Halbert, Dean of Libraries University of North Texas CNI Spring 2013 Meeting, San Antonio, TX Friday, April 5, 2013

COAPI Strategies for Fostering a Culture of Open Access

UNT 2013 Open Access Symposium Will examine where

academic publishing is headed in the future

Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Director of Scholarly Communication at the MLA) and other researchers will discuss new models for publishing, including OA

May 30-31 in Dallas, TX http://openaccess.unt.edu

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