1. Introduction to
Open Access
Suzy Kozaitis
Evans Library
Research Support Workshop
10/20/14
2. Objectives of Scholarly Publishing
1. The pursuit of research aimed at generating new knowledge
and understanding.
2. Assuring the quality of the information outputs generated by
researchers.
3. Ensuring appropriate recognition and reward for all those
engaged in the scholarly communications process.
4. Presenting, publishing and disseminating information outputs
digitally, orally, in print and other forms.
5. Facilitating access to and use of information outputs by
researchers and others who have an interest in them.
6. Assessing and evaluating the usage and impact of information
outputs.
7. Preserving digital, printed and other information outputs, so
that those of long-term value are accessible for the indefinite
future.
Research and the Scholarly Communications Process: Towards Strategic Goals for Public
Policy, Research Information Network, 2007
3. The Problem
• Universities and tax-payers provide funding (salaries and
grants) for professors and researchers to perform research,
write articles, and conduct peer-review and editing of
articles.
• The researchers give away copyright of the articles to
prestigious publishers as a necessity for career
advancement.
• The prestigious publishers charge (sometimes alarmingly)
high costs for the universities and tax-payers to use the
articles that the researchers gave away for free.
4. The Results
• The progress of scientific discovery is slowed,
scholarship is hindered, and the body of
knowledge is incomplete.
• If we can’t see the whole picture, how can we find,
learn about, and build upon the cutting edge?
• The general public, and especially people in
developing countries, are denied access to the
information they need.
Right to Research Coalition, http://www.righttoresearch.org/
6. Open Access
By 'open access‘ to literature, we mean its free availability on the
public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy,
distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles,
crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use
them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or
technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining
access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction
and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain,
should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work
and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.
-Budapest Open Access Initiative-
2002
7. Progress!
Open Access Mandates are increasing in number.
The concept of “open” is encompassing other
kinds of scholarly output.
8. Open Access Repositories
• Authors can store scholarly content and make it
freely available to the public
• Repositories are often created and maintained by
universities and other institutions such as
research laboratories
• Author’s may archive preprints without
permission, and
• A growing number of publishers allow authors to
archive their Postprints
9. • Scholarship Repository of Florida Institute of Technology
• Open Access to Scholarship (Library Research Guide)
• What Faculty Can Do
• The Right to Research Coalition (Students)
Thank you!
