Great Lakes eResources Summit 2013 Lucy Duhon presentation
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Educate yourself. For Guidance:
• SPARC
• Open Access Directory (OAD)
• Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS)
• Open Access NOW (news)
• SHERPA/RoMEO (and JULIET)
• Beall’s List of Predatory OA Publishers
• Open Access Week
• DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
• OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories) Searchable.
• ROARMap (Registry of Open Access Repositories) A growing list of institutions that have adopted OA policies. (avoid the term “mandate”) Links to IRs and policies.
Open Access at
2011
• June 2011 created Open Access LibGuide (OASC)
• August 2011 created institution-wide Open Access Steering Committee (library faculty plus others)
• During Open Access Week 2011, emailed survey link to UT faculty, researchers and graduate students
2011 cont’d …
• Spring/Summer 2012 dissected survey results and highlighted main points in a couple of blog posts
• UT News covered some of the high points
2012
• Summer 2012 planned Open Access Week 2012 event
• Open Access Week 2012 (held event)
• Advertised through library’s blog; university’s blog; UT News; Faculty Senate; mentioned at Research Council.
• Evaluated event and posted results through LibGuide.
• Other initiatives at UT:
Journal of Undergraduate Research (OA)
Performance & Spirituality (OA) (in DOAJ)
Investigating IR possibilities
Transferring DRC (OhioLINK) content to ContentDM
Accomplishments
• two “OA Week” activities completed• appearance in campus publications
To Do
• complete activity for this year’s OA Week• get on Faculty Senate agenda
Biggest Challenges
• getting people involved in an organized fashion• convincing institution of value of support• (see example resolution at WUSM)
The Future (General)
FASTR (successor to FRPAA) • see ALA’s District Dispatch blog post:
“FASTR is the new FRPAA” ATA (Alliance for Taxpayer Access)
The Future (Local)
Keep OA alive in the University Libraries’ strategic plan
Put OA in the forefront of faculty issues on campus Lead by example: deposit papers and articles into
local IR Consider other options: PeerJ ; BMC membership
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