Thursday, November 4, 2010 3:00 - 3:45 PM Speakers: Betty Landesman - NIH Library; Bob Schatz - BioMed Central The open access movement is possibly the most discussed and debated topic in scholarly publishing today, with the discussions sometimes generating more heat than light. More and more publishers are announcing the availability of new open access journals – good news for acquisitions people, since “open access” is the same as “free”. Or is it? What can librarians and/or users do with open access content? What are authors/publishers required to do with their content in order to comply with public access mandates? What is the difference between a “RoMEO Green” publisher and a “RoMEO Gold” one? This session will define the various terms and models used to describe open access publishing and what they mean in the context of the scholarly communication chain. The objectives of the session are to provide some background and definitions for a term that is often used but less often explained. We need to understand it better in order to work with our users, who want to know if the library can help them pay for getting their articles published or with posting their articles to PubMed Central; with our institutions, as we populate institutional repositories; and with our publishers, so that we understand what we may be acquiring. The audience will be encouraged to ask questions and to discuss. Attendees can expect to learn in detail about open access and how it affects librarians, publishers, and users.

1. Wherefore Art Thou, RoMEO?
A Review of Open Access/Public Access Definitions and Policies
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2. What Is Open Access Literature?
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“Digital, online, free of charge,
and free of most copyright and
licensing restrictions” (Peter
Suber)

3. What Is Open Access Literature?
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“Access to material (mainly
scholarly publications) via the
Internet in such a way that the
material is free for all to read,
and to use (or reuse) to various
extents” (Wikipedia)

4. Timeline
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http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Timeline (after Feb.
9, 2009)

5. Public Access and NIH
 PubMed Central launched 2000
 Public access policy released Feb. 2005, went into effect
May 2005
 Dr. Zerhouni recommended to Senate committee that it
should be strengthened from request to requirement Mar.
2007
 Bill mandating OA to research funded by NIH signed Dec.
2008
 http://publicaccess.nih.gov/
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6. Publishers
 Portfolio can include many titles or single
titles that are completely open access
 Sometimes only some articles are open
access
 More and more providing authors with open
access option
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7. Publishers
 HINARI (Programme for Access to Health
Research) – free online access to not-for-
profit institutions in developing countries
 Multiple completely open access journals –
BioMed Central, PLoS (Public Library of
Science
 Aggregations – DOAJ (Directory of Open
Access Journals), SciELO (Scientific
Electronic Library Online)
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8. Publishers – Open Access Archiving
Policies
 Project SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid
Environment for Research Preservation and
Access)
 RoMEO (Rights Metadata for Open archiving)
 Centre for Research Communications at the
University of Nottingham maintains SHERPA
RoMEO service, assigning different colors to
describe publisher’s open access archiving
policies
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9. RoMEO Green
 Author can archive preprint and postprint
or publisher’s version/PDF
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10. RoMEO Blue
 Author can archive postprint (final draft,
after refereeing) or publisher’s
version/PDF
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11. RoMEO Yellow
 Author can archive preprint (pre-
refereeing)
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12. RoMEO White
 Archiving not formally supported
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13. SHERPA RoMEO
 http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
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14. “Gold” Publishers
 Publishers of open access journals which
allow archiving (“green”)
 Separate development from RoMEO
categories
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15. Business Models
 Advertising
 Endowments
 Institutional subsidies
 Donations
 Authors pay publication or submission fee
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16. Questions?
 Betty Landesman
 NIH Library
 landesb@mail.nih.gov
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