Open Access and Universal Deposit

David Fox

Librarians Forum

May 11, 2009

“Librarians understand open access

at the molecular level.”

Heather Joseph, SPARC

Open Access

Gold

• OA publishing

Green

• OA archiving

OA Publishing

An open access journal is one that uses a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. Open access publications allow users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of its contents without restriction.

Extent of OA Publishing• Directory of Open Access Journals

• 3,997 OA journals published in 98 countries, including 115 from Canada

• 650 new journal titles per year since 2003

• OA journals now account for 5-10% of all scholarly journal publishing*. This phenomenon has taken place just within the last 8 years.

*Source: Ulrich's Periodicals Directory

(Ulrichsweb).

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Source: DOAJ, March 2009

Some Canadian OA Journals• CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)• Canadian Journal of Sociology• Canadian Political Science Review• Journal of the Canadian Dental Association• Journal of Distance Education• Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences• Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience • Journal of Religion and Popular Culture• Journal of Research Practice

OA Publishing Platforms•DPubS (Cornell Library and Penn State Univ. Libraries and Press)

•E-Journal (Drupal)

•Open Journal Systems (PKP, SFU)• 2000 titles in publication as of Jan 2009• Partnership, EBLIP• supports many different e-publication models from fully open

access to fully subscription-based and various hybrids in-between• supports online peer-review• software platform for CFI/Synergies

Tools and Guides for authors' rights

SHERPA/RoMEO (Nottingham)

SPARC Canadian Author Addendum• User Guide

OA publishing is a growing phenomenon

• OA publishing price competition

• OA publishing liberalization of authors’ rights• OA publishing increases citations

• Ten-Year Cross-Disciplinary Comparison of the Growth of Open Access and How it Increases Research Citation Impact by Hajjem, Harnad & Gingras

• OA publishing accelerates the dissemination of knowledge• Open Access and the Progress of Science by Alma Swan

OA Repositories• CARL IR Survey

• CARL OAI harvester

• ROAR (eprints.org)• information on 1,310 repositories world-wide

• OpenDOAR (Nottingham)• information on 1,374 repositories world-wide

eCommons@USASK

Library community • 72 contributions from 19 librarians• indexed by Google• harvested by CARL OAI harvester, OAIster, etc.• vehicle for disseminating librarians’ scholarly work

Funding Agency Mandates• NIH• CIHR (Jan 1, 2008)

• NSERC (policy pending)

Universal Deposit Policies

• Harvard – Feb 12, 2008

• Oregon State Library faculty – March 6, 2009

• MIT – March 18, 2009

Universal Deposit PoliciesCommon provisions:

• commitment to disseminating research and scholarship as widely as possible

• faculty members grant to the institution non-exclusive permission to distribute their scholarly articles, and to exercise any and all rights under copyright to such articles

• allows for application of the policy to be waived upon written justification by the author

• articles to be made available to the public in an open-access repository 

Universal Deposit Policies

• UofC – April 17, 2009

• Guidelines

Universal Deposit for UofS Librarians?• How would we decide?• How would it be implemented?

Questions / Discussion