We had a rousing conversation about the merits of open access (#OA) during Open Access Week at Trinity College. My presentation focused on how I came into OA and the key resources that make a busy faculty member or graduate student's entrée into sharing their research publicly as part of the open education movement. See jgieseking.org for the complementary handout. After an introduction from our digital librarian Amy Harrell, I was joined by my colleagues Jack Doughtery in Urban Education Studies, and Charles Lebel in Language and Culture Studies in brief individual presentations followed by a conversation with our faculty.

1. Open Access
Some Thoughts on
the #OA Movement
& Your (Possible)
Place in It
Jen Jack Gieseking
American Studies
Trinity College
jgieseking.org
@jgieseking

2. Defining OA: a Public
Humanities Perspective
• The free, immediate, online availability of knowledge via research articles,
blog posts, tweets, and other documents
• The rights to use these materials fully for education, business, government,
etc. purposes in both digital and material environments
• The ability to self-define copyright to one’s knowledge and have that
copyright respected
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3. Funding
OA
• Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) sponsors
OA International Week, founded by Association of Research Libraries &
membership run
• Open Society Foundations sees open access knowledge and education as
inherent to its mission, a la George Soros
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4. @jgieseking
OA for
STEM

5. @jgieseking
OA for
SocSci

6. @jgieseking
OA for
Hum
• Open Humanities Press (UK)
• SSRN welcomes all!
• Digital Humanities Quarterly,
et al.

7. How to Be
Part of OA
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8. How to Be
Part of OA
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9. Questions & comments:
@jgieseking
jgieseking.org
peopleplacespace.org
jack.gieseking@trincoll.edu
All papers available on jgieseking.org/publications.
Thank you.