How Much Do You Know About Open Access

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Celebrate Open Access

Open Access Week (20-26 October 2014) is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access to scholarly research, to share what they've learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.

The theme for this year's Open Access Week is Generation Open. This theme highlights the involvement of students and early career researchers in the shift in the scholarly communication landscape towards open.

You can find out more about events from around the world on the Global Open Access Week site.

Look for KUMC's Dykes Library sponsored OA events later in November. Please go here for a list of KU/KUMC authors who were awarded KU One University Open Access funds for publishing in open access journals.

Congressional and Higher Ed Support for OA

Kansas Representative Kevin Yoder gives a shout-out to OA Week and support for FASTR- Fair Access to Science and Research Act A Letter of Support for FASTR was signed by 65 presidents and provosts of higher education, including U of Kansas Provost, Jeffrey Vitter and sent to Congress on October 25, 2013.

OA Funds

$$$$ is Available to U of Kansas researchers for OA publishing OA Week is winding down but the revelry carries on!

Open Access Week 2013

Follow Open Access Week for news, events around the globe. #oaweek Find links to interesting articles on journal publishing like this one

Welcome to Open Access Week

"The Internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work “open access”: digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Open access is made possible by the Internet and copyright-holder consent, and many authors, musicians, filmmakers, and other creators who depend on royalties are understandably unwilling to give their consent. But for 350 years, scholars have written peer-reviewed journal articles for impact, not for money, and are free to consent to open access without losing revenue." Peter Suber http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/open-access

Building a Federated System for Publicly Funded Research

Three higher education associations have formed a joint steering group aiming to build a network of repositories to provide public access to federally funded research articles and data. The proposed SHare network is a response to the White House Directivee issued in February, 2013 that requires all federal agencies providing funding of 100 + million to make publicly available the articles resulting from such funding. The SHare group is comprised of members from the Association of American Universities, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and Association of Research Libraries. An alternative public access plan, Chorus, has been proposed by the American Association of Publishers. The issue of whether publisher groups or higher education groups should build and manage repositories of research articles resulting from federal funds is under debate.

August 27 was Deadline for Public Access Expansion Plans by U.S. Agencies doing R & D

Federal agencies with 100 + million in R & D funding were to have submitted public access plans to the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) by August 27, 2013 per a White House Directive issued in February, 2013. The public access expansion directs other federal agencies who issue grant funding to require that recipients post the results of their research in public access systems similar to PubMed Cental, the NIH funded research article repository. This news announcement by the Association of American of Publishers contains their proposal for developing a public access database called Chorus. There are pros and cons to giving publishers control of public access databases, so look for future posts pointing to news announcements from other agencies proposing alternative public access repositories.

Universities and Libraries Release Plan to Comply with White House Directive to Expand Public Access to Research and Data

A proposal recommending that  universities and libraries  collaborate with federal research funding agencies to expand public access to research is circulating. Shared Access Research Ecosystem, or Share, maintains that universities and libraries have infrastructure in place via institutional repositories and have long histories of experience with sharing and preserving research. The Share proposal is under review by the Association of American Universities, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and Association of Research Libraries. An article in The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on the Share proposal and references another recent draft released  by the  publishing industry that outlines publishers' solutions for meeting the August 22nd deadline to expand public access to federally funded research and data. You can view that blog posting here.

Journal Publishers Propose to Run a Clearinghouse for Open Research

If journal publishers, with the backing of the Association of American Publishers, get congressional approval to implement a  public access clearinghouse, one  blogger states "this would be the equivalent of the NRA running background checks on firearms purchases." Read the full post by Michael Eisen.

Public Access to Federally Funded Research Articles and Data

The public and other stakeholders are being asked to provide input to federal agencies working to implement the presidential directive that charges them to make the results of federally-funded research publicly available. 

Publications: May 14-15, 2013  
► Get the agenda
► View the webast (will begin at 9:00 am on May 14 and 15)
► Written statements

Data: May 16-17, 2013    

► Get the agenda► View the webcast (will begin at 9:00 am on May 16 and 17)
► Written statements

U. S.Government Pursues Legal Options Against OMICS Publishing

The U.S. government is accusing OMICS publishing of trademark violation for falsely representing  government-run products and employees on the OMICS website and in their promotions. Particularly in question are OMICS claims to be indexed in the  National Institute of Health's  PubMed and depositing its articles to PubMed Central.  This is the first enforcement by the government against a publisher with a history of false claims about its business practices, particularly its claims of adhering  to open access codes of conduct. Read the full article in Science Insider.

White House Seeking Open Science Champions of Change

Do you know any open science champions of change? Send your candidate names to the White House Champions of Change to "highlight outstanding individuals, organizations, or research projects promoting and using open scientific data and publications to accelerate progress and improve our world."

Evaluating Open Access Publishers

Open Access publishing breaks down barriers to scientific research. But how can you be sure the journal and its publisher lives up to its word on credibility in the name of advancing scientific research and discovery? Here are some guidelines to consider.

All the Buzz About Article-Level Metrics

Article Level-Metrics is the latest hot term in scholarly communications.  Are  you are interested in learning what Article- Level Metrics measure, how they differ from journal  impact, how promotion and tenure might include ALM's in the process? Then this Article-Level Metrics primer is just for you.

Support Expanded Access to Federally Funded Research

Please read this statement by former KU Provost David Shulenburger and support expansion of public access to federally funded research.

Funding Still Available: One-University Open Access Fund for Year 1

Are you a University of Kansas faculty, staff or graduate student? Do you write and publish articles? Do you want to publish with an open access (OA) publisher but lack funding support to help you pay the charges? The One University Open Access fund was established to pay article processing charges on your behalf.  It is not too late to apply for funding in this first year of a two-year pilot.

Of the $25,000 provided, there remains approximately $6000. Once this amount is committed, the OA fund account will be deactivated until Fall 2013 when the second year of the two-year pilot begins with the remaining $25,000.

Please go here for  more information regarding criteria to apply for funding and to complete the request form.

The One University OA Fund is intended to assist those who have not received grant funding. Those applying for grants should request funding for article processing charges in order to publish the results of their research in an open access journal.

For questions about our OA fund, please contact authorsfund@ku.edu

Additional information regarding Open Access

Thank you to all who attended our Open Access panelist event!
 
Special thanks to Dr. Paul Terranova for his introduction of the One University Open Access Publishing Fund.

Looking for more information regarding Open Access and the publishing process? View our Open Access LibGuide (which includes the Open Access PowerPoint Dr. Terranova mentioned this afternoon). Also, view our Copyright and Author Rights LibGuide for more information regarding managing copyright and navigating copyright transfer agreements.

A big thank you to Ken Davis for moderating the event and to our excellent panelists, including Diane Boyle, Liskin Swint-Kruse and Karthik Ramachandran.

Questions about Open Access? Contact Crystal Cameron-Vedros or Rachel Gyore.

Dykes Library invites you to participate in Open Access (OA) Week

Dykes Library invites you to celebrate Open Access (OA) Week with us starting next Monday!  The library will host events to promote OA and its benefits for the academic and research community. These events will culminate in an exciting announcement of our new KU One University Open Access Publishing Fund! 

Learn more about the One University Open Access Fund.

Register now for KUMC OA Week events

See all KU Open Access Week events.
Follow #oaweek on Twitter.

What's Open Access? Learn more about OA and author rights.

 

Questions? Contact Crystal Cameron-Vedros or Rachel Gyore.

Open Access and Why It Matters.

Calling all researchers, students and faculty--want to know more about open access and why it matters? Watch the video below and check out our compilation of resources on our Open Access LibGuide.

Questions about open access? Contact Crystal Cameron-Vedros, Copyright and Scholarly Communications Librarian, at cvedros@kumc.edu or by phone at 913-588-7916.