Open > Closed
Why You Should Publish Open Access
Maura A. Smale
New York City College of Technology, CUNY
ALA NMRT New Librarian's Guide to Professional Writing & Publishing
June 7, 2013
Open access (OA) articles are:
journals
broken
What's the Problem?
university $ (taxpayer $, tuition $, etc.) + grant $ —>
pay faculty to do research & record results in articles —>
faculty give articles & copyright to publishers for free
(and other researchers peer review for free) —>
university libraries pay dearly for access to articles —>
publishers get articles, copyrights, and labor for free
& publishers rake in all the $ (and it is BIG $)
From
1986 to 2011, serial expenditures
at research libraries
increased
402%.
readers
authors
benefits
How to Achieve Open Access?
Finding Gold OA Journals
Directory of Open Access Journals
Browse or search 8300+ open access journals!
Finding Green OA Journals
SHERPA/RoMEO
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
Search by publisher or journal to find summaries
of copyright & self-archiving policies
Can I Negotiate My Contract?
Give it a try!
Submit the SPARC Author Addendum,
which gives authors additional rights to their articles:
http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/addendum.shtml
find your balance
Image Credits
Redspotted http://www.flickr.com/photos/redspotted/8492039366/
Timothy Volmer http://flickr.com/photos/sixteenmilesofstring/2244473390/
Tal Atlas http://flickr.com/photos/talatlas/2284113599/
Library Expenditures chart, Association of Research Libraries http://www.arl.org/storage/documents/expenditure-trends.pdf
Craig Dietrich http://flickr.com/photos/craigdietrich/6190671375/
Tal Bright http://www.flickr.com/photos/bright/3497663726/
Tom Magliery http://flickr.com/photos/mag3737/1913780669/
Murray Barnes http://flickr.com/photos/aeu04117/5199030961/
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Thank you!
Maura A. Smale
msmale@citytech.cuny.edu • @mauraweb
Slides @ http://tinyurl.com/opengtclosed