Open Access Scholarly Publishing & An Institutional Repository for CUNY Jill Cirasella • [email protected] Maura A. Smale • [email protected]
Open Access Scholarly Publishing & An Institutional Repository for CUNY Jill Cirasella [email protected] Maura A. Smale [email protected].
Jan 01, 2016
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Open Access Scholarly Publishing &
An Institutional Repository for CUNY
Jill Cirasella • [email protected] A. Smale •
What Are We Talking About?
Today’s focus:scholarly journal articles
Not today’s focus:monographs
theses & dissertationsresearch data
etc.
What Is 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 $)
What Is the Solution?
Open access to scholarly journal articles!
Open access (OA) articles are:
1. freely accessible online in a repository committed to long-term archiving
2. free for all to read, download, print, copy, share, etc. (attribution always required, of course)
How to Achieve Open Access?
“Gold” OA: publish in open access journals
“Green” OA: publish in journals that allow authors to archive articles in subject repositories (PubMed Central, arXiv, SSRN, RePEc, etc.) or institutional repositories
Today’s focus: Creating a CUNY institutional repository so faculty can make their articles open access in a permanent venue, regardless of field
Who Benefits from Open Access?
Readers:
More content is available to everyone,regardless of institutional affiliation or ability to pay
Who Benefits from Open Access?
Authors:
Increased availability —> More readers —> More scholarly citations, impact in the field
Easy to link to —> More mentions/links in news, blogs, etc. —> Broader awareness in the world
Greater control over own work —> No need to relinquish copyright to publishers —> Publishers don't dictate copying, sharing, etc.
Who Benefits from Open Access?
Institutions: Institutions no longer pay twice for research:
researchers’ salaries + journal subscriptions
In the case of public institutions, the tax-paying public
no longer pays three times for research: researchers’ salaries + research grants + journal
subscriptions
Institutional repositories can “serve as tangible indicators of a university’s quality” and “demonstrate the scientific, societal, and economic relevance of its research activities, thus increasing the institution’s visibility, status, and public value” — Raym Crow
Who Benefits from Open Access?
Fields of Study:
Greater access to information —> More informed research —> Better research
Articles placed in repositories before they appear in journals —> Ends reliance on journal publication cycles —> Allows other researchers to respond more quickly —> Speeds innovation
Who Benefits from Open Access?
The Public:
Greater access to information —> Better informed doctors, teachers, journalists, etc. —> Better informed individuals, voters, etc. —> Healthier, better educated people living in a
cleaner, safer, more evidence-based world
“Closed access means people die.” — Peter Murray Rust
Who Thinks OA Is Important?
A growing number of universities have OA mandates:
Harvard, MIT, U of Kansas, Princeton, Duke,Emory, Oberlin, Bucknell, etc.
Some funding agencies have OA mandates:National Institutes of Health, Gates Foundation,
MacArthur Foundation, Wellcome Trust, etc.
What Can CUNY Do?
1. TODAY: Pass this resolution to establish a CUNY-wide institutional repository and associated policies
2. Build a CUNY-wide institutional repository
3. Inform CUNY faculty, administrators, etc. about journal pricing crisis and the solution of open access publishing in all its forms (gold + green)
4. Create & pass open access policy à la Harvard, etc.
What Might a CUNY IR Look Like?
Perhaps expand CUNY Libraries “sandbox” repository…
What Might a CUNY IR Look Like?
Perhaps use or adapt another platform…
What Might a CUNY IR Look Like?
Quite possibly integrate with CUNY Academic Commons:
enhance profiles with publications lists & links create news feeds of new publications offer space to discuss articles in the IR make the Commons more like Academia.edu
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