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Open Access Views from the Research Library

Open Access Views from the Research Library. Joyce Garnett University Librarian, Western Board Member, Association of Research Libraries Past President, Canadian Association of Research Libraries Former Health Sciences Librarian. Overview . Research library associations

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Open Access Views from the Research Library

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  1. Open Access Views from the Research Library Joyce Garnett University Librarian, Western Board Member, Association of Research Libraries Past President, Canadian Association of Research Libraries Former Health Sciences Librarian AFMC Committee on Libraries May 2006

  2. Overview • Research library associations • Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) • Association of Research Libraries (ARL) • Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) • Developments: growing the movement and sustaining momentum • Challenges to scholars and researchers AFMC Committee on Libraries May 2006

  3. CARL Initiatives (1) • AUCC-CARL Task Force – report 1996 • SPARC ->Create Change -> OA collaboration • Strategic Directions • Scholarship (incl Open Access) • Institutional Repositories • various software all open source, 22 participants at different stages of development • CARL Harvester maintained at Simon Fraser http://carl-abrc-oai.lib.sfu.ca:8044/ AFMC Committee on Libraries May 2006

  4. CARL Initiatives (2) • Original signatory to BOAI • CARL’s brief to SSHRC urging open access • Role of granting councils in setting OA policy • www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/open_access/SSHRC_OA-consultn_brief.pdf (Nov05) • Alouette Canada Open Digitization Initiative • Born digital and born again digital • National metadata toolkit AFMC Committee on Libraries May 2006

  5. Developments -International • Budapest Open Access Initiative • 2001 – Open Society Institute (Andy Soros) • Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities • 2003 - Major public funders from France & Germany committed to open access, plus some from Greece, Hungary, Italy and Norway • World Summit on the Information Society • 2003 – declaration of the need for access to and sharing of information AFMC Committee on Libraries May 2006

  6. Developments – U.S. • Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing • Major private funders of biomedical research committed to open access • Howard Hughes Medical Institute provides authors with grant fees to pay pub’n charges (up to $3000 in FY2004) • NIH • NIH –funded investigators to deposit e-copy with PubMed Central • Universities • Kansas, UCalifornia Irvine, Cornell, Columbia AFMC Committee on Libraries May 2006

  7. Developments - Canada • SSHRC • Declaration of commitment to the principle of Open Access Oct 2004 • Congress of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, June 2005 • Study of current business models of SSHRC journals • CIHR • NSERC • NRC (CISTI) journals to .ca • IDRC – first Cdn govt agency with IR AFMC Committee on Libraries May 2006

  8. Developments - Ontario • Scholars Portal • Archiving of digital content • O-Zone institutional repository • CORIL learning objects repository AFMC Committee on Libraries May 2006

  9. Data Depositories • National Consultation on Access to Research Data (NCASRD) • Sponsored by NRC, CFI, CIHR, NSERC • Complements earlier study for the Social Sciences • ncasrd-cnadrs.scitech.gc.ca/NCASRDReport_e.pdf (Jan05) AFMC Committee on Libraries May 2006

  10. Why Open Access? • Public good – taxpayers $ • Exposure – higher profile • Removes barriers to access for all • Third world – access for the information poor • Power of serendipity – re-discovery and re-use of research data AFMC Committee on Libraries May 2006

  11. What can scholars do? • Scholars as authors, reviewers, editors, publishers • Move to e-publishing • Initiate open access for their society • Recognize open access journals as credible for P&T and granting decisions • Support international, national and local declarations • Speak to librarians AFMC Committee on Libraries May 2006

  12. Further Exploration • Peter Suber’s blog (searchable) • www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/fosblog.html • Comprehensive bibliography • www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm • Directory of OA journals • www.doaj.org/ • APLSP study on Open Access • www.alpsp.org/publications/pub11.htm (Oct05) • www.alpsp.org/news/GowersReview-response.pdf (Apr06) • CIBER Report for the International Association of STM Publishers • www.slais.ucl.ac.uk/papers/dni-20050925.pdf (Sept05) AFMC Committee on Libraries May 2006

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