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Open Access: what’s in it for
My Library?Heather
Morrison &
Andrew Waller
Alberta Library
Conference,
Jasper Park
Lodge, Alberta,
Saturday, April
25, 2009View of Jasper Park Lodge from across Lac Beauvert
appaloosa
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic
http://www.flickr.com/photos/appaloosa/28608917/
Open Access: Definition
• Literature that is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions (Suber, Overview)
Conclusion: …”to promote scholarly communication, integrity, academic freedom, and education and research activities more generally, it is important for academic staff to retain copyright in their journal articles”.
My Library website: open
access scholarship• Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org
• PubMed (medicine)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
• arXiv (physics) http://arxiv.org/
• RePEC (economics) http://repec.org/
• E-LIS (library and information studies) http://eprints.rclis.org/
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• Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) Intellectual Property Advisory July 2008 (1): Retaining Copyright in Journal Articles. http://www.caut.ca/uploads/IP-Advisory1-en.pdf
• Canadian Cochrane Centre - Free access to The Cochrane Library press release http://www.ccnc.cochrane.org/en/clib.html
• The Cochrane Library www.thecochranelibrary.com.
• Comfort, Judith. Open Access School Library. http://www.judithcomfort.ca/openhigh/