The document discusses open access to scholarly publications. Open access means digital content that is free of charge and without restriction on copying or redistribution. There are two main routes to open access - the "gold road" of publishing in open access journals, and the "green road" of self-archiving articles in open repositories. Open access provides benefits like increased visibility, citation rates, and dissemination of knowledge without financial barriers. The document provides recommendations for researchers, funders, and institutions to support open access.

1. Library of the University of Amsterdam
Open Access
Saskia Woutersen-Windhouwer

2. Definition
 Digital content
 Free of charge
 Without restriction
 Copy, distribute, print or search
Funding models that do not charge readers or
their institutions for access
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5. Access to books:
no or limited preview
S. Prechal, L. Senden, B. Roermund, T.
Vandamme Experiences from
professional practice: some steps
towards empirical research
In: The coherence of EU law: the search
for unity in divergent concepts, editors S.
Prechal, B. Van Roermund (Oxford
University)
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6. Visibility and accessibility
To enlarge the international visibility and
accessibility to scientific output
To optimize the use of the scientific output
Removes price barriers.
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7. The Golden Road
 The publishers’ pdf is freely available for all in
the world
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8. The Golden road
 Directory of (peer reviewed) Open
Access Journals (DOAJ)
http://www.doaj.org
 Hybrid journal
If you pay the publisher your individual
article will be freely available while other
articles in the same issue can require
subscription for access
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9. The Green Road
 Self-archiving’: The author publishes in a
repository his/her latest version of the article
which he/she has sent to the publisher for
official publication.
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10. Romeo Sherpa
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11. Full OA can only be provided
by waiving some of the rights
Creative commons licence
Most open is CC-BY
 CC-BY waives all rights except the right of
attribution
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12. OA advantage: more visible, more cited!
Gunter Eysenbach, The open access advantage,
J Med Internet Res. 2006 Apr–Jun; 8(2): e8. DOI:10.2196/jmir.8.2.e8.
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13. Early access advantage
Source: E.A. Henneken et al. Effect of E-printing on Citation Rates in Astronomy and Physics,
J.Electron.Publishing 9 (2006)
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14. What can financers do?
 Infrastructure DARE, Narcis, Google sitemaps
 Finance NWO OA Fund, Springer Open Choice
 Mandates
 MIT, Stanford and Harvard
 author's final version / as of the date of
publication / waiver/opt-out / at no charge.
 EU, ERC

publisher's version and/or author's final
version / embargo: up to 12 months after
publication
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15. What can you do?
1. Submit to OA journals / OA book publisher
 see the Directory of Open Access Journals
1. Deposit your postprints in a repository
 see SHERPA Romeo for publisher policies
1. Maintain (some) rights
 licences or addendum
 http://copyrighttoolbox.surf.nl/
1. Deposit metadata
 if the publisher does not allow post print
archiving
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16. Advantages of Open Access
1. Dissemination of knowledge is much more
efficient
 Easy to find by search engines like
 Easy and free (!) to download for everyone
1. Accessibility is not limited
by the library’s budget or the wealth of the
country where the researcher is located.
2. Optimizes the use of the scientific output
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17. Thank you for your attention!
QUESTIONS?
Saskia Woutersen
Saskia.woutersen@uva.nl
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