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Open Access Advocacy: Think Globally, Act Locally Collaborative Librarianship Volume 2 Issue 3 Article 7 2010 Open Access Advocacy: Think Globally, Act Locally Bette Rathe University of Northern Colorado, [email protected] Jayati Chaudhuri University of Northern Colorado, [email protected] Wendy Highby University of Northern Colorado, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/collaborativelibrarianship Part of the Information Literacy Commons Recommended Citation Rathe, Bette; Chaudhuri, Jayati; and Highby, Wendy (2010) "Open Access Advocacy: Think Globally, Act Locally," Collaborative Librarianship: Vol. 2 : Iss. 3 , Article 7. Available at: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/collaborativelibrarianship/vol2/iss3/7 This From the Field is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ DU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Collaborative Librarianship by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ DU. For more information, please contact [email protected],[email protected]. Rathe, Chaudhuri & Highby: Open Access Advocacy Open Access Advocacy: Think Globally, Act Locally Bette Rathe, University of Northern Colorado ([email protected]) Jayati Chaudhuri, University of Northern Colorado ([email protected]) Wendy Highby, University of Northern Colorado ([email protected]) Abstract While the open access movement is a global movement, University of Northern Colorado libra- rians acted locally and collaboratively to make changes to their scholarly communication system. Authors of this article describe how global advocacy affected their local, institutional open access activities that resulted in a library faculty open access resolution at University of Northern Colo- rado Libraries. This article is based on the “Advocating for Open Access on Your Campus” pres- entation at the Colorado Academic Library Consortium Summit on May 21, 2010. Introduction nals but pay a fee to make their article an open access article. This is known as the ‘au- The “think globally, act locally” slogan of thor choice’ open access option. An increas- the environmental movement serves as a ing number of traditional publishers are guiding principle for our participation in the now offering an ‘author choice’ open access open access movement. We make changes option, as reflected in the SHERPA/ Ro- in our scholarly communication systems on MEO listing, a local level, and we are guided by the glob- http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/PaidOA. al principles of the international Budapest html. In the ‘green’ open access publication Open Access Initiative of 2002, model, authors publish in subscription http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.sh based journals but can choose to provide tml, and the Berlin Declaration of Open access to the article via departmental or in- Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and stitutional or discipline specific repositories. Humanities of 2003, More and more traditional publishers are http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess- now allowing articles to be deposited in re- berlin/berlindeclaration.html. Both initia- positories. Statistics kept by SHER- tives espouse the principles of making re- PA/RoMEO indicate that 62% of publishers search in all academic fields freely available formally allow some form of self-archiving.2 on the Internet. This can be done through publishing research in open access journals BioMed Central and the Public Library of or by making research articles, published in Science (PLoS) are two ‘gold’ open access traditional journals, freely available. publishers, among many, listed in the Direc- tory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). DOAJ Global Advocacy aims to provide a comprehensive listing of scholarly and scientific open access journals, The ’gold’ and ’green’ open access publica- thereby increasing their visibility and ulti- tion models are two ways authors can make mately increasing their “usage and impact.”3 their articles open access. The ’gold’ open Heather Morrison commented in 2008, “It is access publication model involves authors noteworthy that the number of journal titles choosing to publish in open access journals. included in DOAJ is impressive compared Open access (OA) journals “provide free, with commercial journal packages. DOAJ’s immediate, permanent online access to the 2,832 journals compares favorably with the full text of research articles for anyone, approximately 2,000 titles in Science Di- webwide.”1 Additionally, authors can pub- rect.”4 As of May 2010, DOAJ’s coverage lish in toll access or subscription based jour- includes more than 5000 journals.5 This is a Collaborative Librarianship 2(3): 162-168 (2010) 162 Rathe, Chaudhuri & Highby: Open Access Advocacy huge growth of open access journals within • In 2003, the University of Sou- couple of years. Any library can add these thampton School of Electronics and titles to their e-resource access and man- Computer Science of the United agement service (ERAMS), providing local Kingdom passed the world’s first access to global resources and building open access mandate. awareness of open access journals. • In 2004, Queensland University of Technology in Australia passed the Open Access Advocacy Events world’s first university-wide open access mandate. Building awareness of and support for open • In 2008, the United States National access can also be done through staging an Institutes of Health passed an open event. The first open access event, National access mandate making publicly Day of Action for Open Access, occurred in funded research freely available. the United States on February 15, 2007 spon- sored by Students for Free Culture and the You can find these and many other man- Alliance for Taxpayer Access. The event’s dates listed on ROARMAP, the “Registry of purpose was to celebrate the fifth anniver- Open Access Repository Material Archiving sary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative Policies,” hosted on the EPrints web site. and to urge support for the passage of the This database tracks the world-wide growth Federal Research Public Access Act of institutional self-archiving policies. As of (FRPAA).6 The Scholarly Publishing and July 6, 2010, 223 mandates were registered Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and on ROARMAP.9 PLoS joined Students for Free Culture to sponsor the first international event, Open Local Advocacy Access Day, on October 14, 2008 to continue advocacy for open access of publicly funded Open access advocacy at the University of research.7 From 2009 forward, Open Access Northern Colorado (UNC) currently takes Day became the global activity of Open three forms: recent activities of the Libra- Access Week held in October. The purpose ries Scholarly Communication Committee, of Open Access Week is to provide “an op- awareness activities during Open Access portunity for the academic and research Week, and the political activity of a Library community to continue to learn about the Faculty Open Access Resolution. The Libra- potential benefits of Open Access, to share ries Scholarly Communication Committee what they’ve learned with colleagues, and was formed in 2007 and includes members to help inspire wider participation in help- from the library and Graduate School. While ing to make Open Access a new norm in initially focusing on copyright and attend- scholarship and research.”8 ing training on scholarly communications issues, the committee decided to focus on Open Access Mandates the open access and authors’ rights begin- ning in 2009. The committee, in collabora- One form of strategically collaborative polit- tion with the Graduate School, brought Ke- ical activity is the passage of open access vin Smith from Duke University to speak to mandates (also referred to as “institutional faculty regarding authors’ rights issues. self-archiving policies”). Open access man- dates have been passed by various groups: Open Access Week activities and the pas- specific academic departments, entire uni- sage of a Library Faculty Open Access Reso- versities, library faculties, and so on. The lution also involved collaboration, the first following brief list gives you a geographical- with UNC faculty and the second with UNC ly diverse sampling of open access man- library faculty. dates that provide free global access to re- search: Collaborative Librarianship 2(3): 162-168 (2010) 163 Rathe, Chaudhuri & Highby: Open Access Advocacy Open Access Week Activities Access Week website, http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/ blogs/handouts-about-oa-a4. Books on copyright and images from open access journals affixed to poster board completed the display. A panel was assembled of five faculty mem- bers involved with open access publications to discuss open access, with the UNC library dean Gary Pitkin serving as moderator. Dean Pitkin serves as the editor of Technical Services Quarterly, a traditionally published Open Access Week 2009 activities included journal. Common themes heard from the a display in the library and a faculty panel panel members were the importance of peer discussion of open access. The basis for review and the importance of publishing in both was research done by members of the the journals in their own particular field, Libraries Scholarly Communication Com- including professional association or society mittee regarding UNC faculty involvement journals, over open access. Open access was in open access activities as revealed on their seen as an added benefit rather than a core vita or websites. Initially the members element of their scholarly publication choic- looked for articles published in open access
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