18 October 2019

1. 18 October 2019 Advancing your open content initiatives: practical tips for managing open content resources Visit pollev.com/greatbook442 from your laptop or mobile device to answer our first poll question: “How familiar are you with open content and the Open Access movement?”

2. Zach Sharrow Science Librarian College of Wooster Wooster, OH

4. Visit pollev.com/greatbook442 from your laptop or mobile device to answer What is your primary role regarding open content at your library?

6. The Big Picture

7. “Open” is More Visible Than Ever Piwowar, H., Priem, J., & Orr, R. (2019). The Future of OA: A large-scale analysis projecting Open Access publication and readership. BioRxiv, 795310.https://doi.org/10.1101/795310

8. “Open” is More Visible Than Ever • Pushback against big deals • Plan S & OA2020 • Increase in open resources and practices • Open educational resources • Open data • Open research • Open peer review

9. A Mix of Approaches

10. Visit pollev.com/greatbook442 from your laptop or mobile device to answer Would you describe your institution’s overall approach to OA as top-down (centralized) or bottom-up (decentralized)?

12. Open Content at the College of Wooster

13. Our Approach • Digital Commons institutional repository (Open Works) • Open Access Resolution (adopted 2013) • Ongoing education and advocacy • Workshops for faculty • OER email list • OA week activities

14. Our Reality • Faculty publications in the IR: 392 out of 1000+ since 2010 • Increasing requests for embargoes on student work • No mechanism for assuring compliance with OA policy

15. What Can We Do? • Build out technical & human infrastructure • Capitalize on our institution’s unique strength • Enrich the open ecosystem

16. Visit pollev.com/greatbook442 from your laptop or mobile device to answer Think about the distinctive programs or collections at your institution that could contribute to a diverse open ecosystem. Describe them in 1 or 2 words.

18. Catie Heil Digital Curation Librarian College of Wooster Wooster, OH

19. Visit pollev.com/greatbook442 from your laptop or mobile device to answer Is your institution publishing faculty and/or student work in your institutional repository?

21. Wooster’s Institutional Repository

22. Special Nature of Student Work • Concerns about quality • Colleges should preserve students’ right to publish wherever is most professionally advantageous • Some students want to remain anonymous • Undergrads might go on to produce much better work • Some student work contributes to a faculty member’s larger research project • Challenge of helping them understand their rights

23. Our Exemplar Program 195 of our 10,000 I.S.’s are what we call “exemplars.” Those 195 works account for nearly 90,000 downloads.

24. Value to Students

25. Nuts and Bolts • Solicit nominations using a Google Sheet with tabs for each department • Seek contact information from Alumni Relations • Reach out to the nominated alumni seeking OA license, answering questions • “Flip the switch” in the repository’s administrative interface • Provide regular workshops explaining author rights to their work and advertising the program

26. Managing Student Content • Sometimes making content open requires providing other options • Provide snapshots and reports to authors, advisors, Registrar, Deans, etc. to encourage future participation • Communicate the value for students • Create communication channels for students who have questions and concerns

27. Jay Holloway Senior Product Manager OCLC Dublin, OH

28. Sustaining and Scaling Your Open Journey

29. Visit pollev.com/greatbook442 from your laptop or mobile device to answer How can OCLC help your library move your open initiatives forward?

31. Open Content Survey 705 responses from 82 countries • 72% are Research and University libraries • 91% are currently involved in Open Content activities

32. OCLC’s Most Relevant Research Areas

33. Defining Open Content • Digital • Accessible immediately and online (no technical barrier) • Freely available (no authorization or cost barrier) • Fully reusable in a digital environment (no rights barrier)

34. Initial Open Content Phases 1. Open Content ingested through controlled/licensed sources • Gold Journals • OERs • Hybrid content published through traditional publishers 2. Open Content ingested through open sources (e.g. DCG) • Archives • Special collections • IR’s and disciplinary repositories

35. Open Collections 58M+ 420+collections with ~5MOA records, curated by libraries & providers

36. Standards-based Approach • Enables scale and collaboration with publishers • Content-neutral • Ensures library community aligns • Sustainable *Example: MARC 856 $7

37. Enabling Open Content • Open knowledge base collections • Integrated link resolvers • ILL Open Content fulfillment • Surfacing on A to Z lists • Links from your local OPAC • Directly connect the user to the item • Highlight or sync into WorldCatArchival/Research repositories • Showcase cultural heritage, data sets, etc.

38. Enabling Open Content • Enable Open Content filters where available. • For example, WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat.org • 58M records (and growing!) • Integrate with third parties specializing in identifying Open Content. • Unpaywall • OA Button • Instant ILL (https://openaccessbutton.org/instantill)

40. Supporting New Content Models • Move from “pay-to-read” to “pay-to-publish” models • Fostered by OA2020 Initiative, Plan S, libraries, funders & other organizations • OCLC will index open content from existing and emerging providers in diverse business models and make it available in our products and services The difference is that by paying publishers to publish, with no charge for reading, everyone in the world … can benefit from new scientific discoveries, immediately. --Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, UC California-Berkeley

41. Learning and Digitized Content A deeper focus and investigation of educational and digital materials. • OERs from reputable institutions (i.e., textbooks) • Archives and Special Collections (i.e., cultural heritage materials) • IRs and disciplinary repositories (i.e., research outputs) 650+ free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks Free access to 24M cultural heritage resources

42. Open Access Week • International Open Access Week starts Monday, October 21 • OpenAccessWeek.org • #OAweek • oc.lc/open

44. Thank you!