Opening up our research: A discussion of open access at Carleton University
RESEARCH DAYS WORKSHOP
Margaret Haines, University Librarian invites you to attend:
“Opening up our research: A discussion of open access at Carleton University”
This seminar will feature presentations from Carleton and University of Ottawa academic staff and librarians about open access publishing including opening up access to research data, using open source publishing tools and open repositories, and funding open access publishing.
Speakers will include:
- Laura Newton Miller,
- Pat Moore,
- Tracey Lauriault and
- Kate Keating from Carleton University, and
- Patrick Labelle of the University of Ottawa.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
102 MacOdrum Library
RSVP to Carys Carrington at carys_carrington at carleton dot ca
Seating is limited Refreshments will be served
Designing the Optimal Open Access Mandate
As the number of Open Access (OA) mandates adopted by universities worldwide grows it is important to ensure that the most effective mandate model is selected for adoption, and that a very clear distinction is made between what is required and what is recommended: By far the most effective and widely applicable OA policy is to require that the author’s final, revised peer-reviewed draft must be deposited in the institutional repository (IR) immediately upon acceptance for publication, without exception, but only to recommend, not require, that access to the deposit should be set immediately as Open Access (at least 63% of journals already endorse immediate, unembargoed OA); access to deposits for which the author wishes to honor a publisher access embargo can be set as Closed Access. The IR’s “fair use” button allows users to request and authors to authorize semi-automated emailing of individual eprints to individual requesters, on a case by case basis, for research uses during the embargo. The adoption of an “author’s addendum” reserving rights should be recommended but not required (opt-out/waiver permitted). It is also extremely useful and productive to make IR deposit the official mechanism for submitting publications for annual performance review. IRs can also monitor compliance with complementary OA mandates from research funding agencies and can provide valuable metrics on usage and impact. (Mandate compliance should be compulsory, but there need be no sanctions or penalties for noncompliance; the benefits of compliance will be their own reward.)
Harnad, S. (2008) Waking OA’s “Slumbering Giant”: The University’s Mandate To Mandate Open Access. New Review of Information Networking 14(1): 51 - 68
Gargouri, Y., Hajjem, C., Lariviere, V., Gingras, Y., Brody, T., Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2010) Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research.
Sale, A., Couture, M., Rodrigues, E., Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2010) Open Access Mandates and the “Fair Dealing” Button. In: Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online (Rosemary J. Coombe & Darren Wershler, Eds.)
Comment by Stevan Harnad — March 30, 2010 @ 5:53 pm