1 / 9

Purdue University Open Access Initiative: Advancing Scholarly Communication

The University Senate supports the adoption of an open access policy at Purdue University, encouraging faculty to deposit scholarly articles in the Purdue e-Pubs repository. The Joint Transportation Research Project demonstrates the impact of open access in reaching a global audience.

awithers
Download Presentation

Purdue University Open Access Initiative: Advancing Scholarly Communication

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. PURDUE University libraries andOpen Access CNI Project Update James L. Mullins, Dean of Libraries And Esther Ellis Norton Professor

  2. Open Access Initiative at Purdue University Senate Document 11-3 To: The University Senate From: University Resources Policy Committee Subject: University Open Access Policy Disposition: University Senate for Information and Endorsement The University Resources Policy Committee recommends that Purdue University adopt a policy that advances and supports deposit to the Purdue e-Pubs digital repository all scholarly articles published by Purdue faculty, thereby enabling open access in addition to and beyond the published, citable article. Action:  Passed Unanimously.  January 23, 2012. All policies must be created by University Administration

  3. Open Access Initiative at Purdue • Feb. 2012 LibrariesFaculty passes Open Access Mandate • Aug. 2012 Ada Emmett, KU, COAPI Founder, visitingassociateprofessor for 2012/2013 • Dec. 2012 AcademicDeansadvisedthatpolicywould not be acceptable to faculty as a mandate. • Jan. 2012 - Ada and Libraries liaisons meeting withdepartments, – 16 completed, only 60 to go!

  4. PURDUE libraries andopen ACCESS TO TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH Purdue Libraries and the Joint transportation research center

  5. Professor Darcy Bullock, Civil Engineering Director, Joint Transportation Research Project (JTRP)

  6. OPEN ACCESS HIDDEN PRINT ► DISCOVERABLE AND SECURE ONLINE

  7. COMMUNICATING IMPACT • JTRP has ca.1,750 items available in Purdue e-Pubs (out of ca. 30,000) • In the last year, JTRP materials have been downloaded over 227,200 times • Since the inception of the collection, JTRP materials have been downloaded over 530,000 times • Averagenumber of downloads per month continues to increase by ca. 10% p/m • JTRP materials are accessedworldwide,notablyIndia, China, South Korea, Italy, and Belgium

  8. Recognition of Open Access October 2012 Open Access Week University Award for Advancing Open Access Given by Interim President Tim Sands to Professor Darcy Bullock, Director, Joint Transportation Research Project (JTRP)

  9. THANK YOU

More Related