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Community Tracking Indicators For Open And Inclusive Scholarship, Micah Altman

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Where Is The Social Democracy In Subscription Paywalls? Effects And Impact Of Transitioning Journals From Subscriptions To Open Access On Researchers In Developing And Transition Economies, Colleen Campbell, Rick Burke

Digital Initiatives Symposium

Nearly 20 years after the Budapest, Berlin and Bethesda Declarations on open access, the global academic community continues to struggle toward realizing its objective of an open information environment in which the world’s scholarly and scientific literature is freely available and at the service of society to accelerate research, enrich education and lay the foundation for a common, global intellectual exchange. Championing the cause, stakeholders in some geographic contexts have succeeded in delivering open access publishing options for their research outputs by fostering highly-regarded, locally-developed journals, platforms and repositories, yet a an enormous portion of the world’s scholarly literature continues …

Applying Fair Principles To Scholarly Publishing Outputs To Improve Open Access Compliance, Trinity Mcnicol, Elena Danilova

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

While the FAIR Principles were developed for research data, they can also be aptly applied to other research outputs. Applying FAIR Principles to scholarly publications ensures research can easily be found, accessed, used and re-purposed by others. Using these principles in the context of scholarly publishing helps facilitate access to publications by other researchers and the wider community. The existing services and infrastructure, provided by The University of Queensland Library Scholarly Communication & Repository Services (SCARS) team, supports practical implementation of some of the FAIR Principles in scholarly publishing.

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Collaborating Across Institutions: Lessons In Planning A Co-Hosted Conference, Sarah Melton, Ellen M. Phillips, John O'Connor

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

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Oer, Copyright And Faculty: Are Academic Librarians Qualified To Support This Triptych?, Lindsey Gumb

ACRL New England Chapter Annual Conference

OER (Open educational resources) is rapidly gaining momentum and recognition in higher education as the cost of textbooks and supplemental learning materials continue to rise. University administrators are realizing the cost-savings impact that OER can have on student enrollment and retention and are encouraging faculty to utilize these free resources in order to help the university stand out among the competition. As a profession, librarians have always collaborated with faculty to assist in locating relevant content for their courses as well as been leaders in open access, so it makes sense that we are being called on to assist in …

The Effect Of Open Access On Citation Rates Of Self-Archived Articles At Chalmers, Lars Kullman

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Open Access (OA) proponents argue that OA increases the visibility and accessibility of research articles, and therefore increases the citation rate of these works. During the last decade numerous studies have been made on the possible citation advantage of OA on scholarly publications. At Chalmers University of Technology (Göteborg, Sweden) an OA policy was adopted in 2010, mandating all of its publications to be self-archived in the university repository Chalmers Publication Library (CPL). One of the arguments of the then vice chancellor was that OA would increase citations. In this study, a possible OA citation advantage of articles self-archived in …

The Stick Or The Carrot? An Approach To Open Access, Randi Tyse Eriksen, Jorunn Alstad

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In Norway, as internationally, Open Access (OA) policy states that officially funded research should be open to the public. This paper touches upon the EU’s new OA-initiative (Horizon 2020) before giving a short description of the guidelines from the Norwegian Government and the National Research Council of Norway, as well as NTNU’s and other Norwegian Universities’ OA policies. Through the Norwegian CRIStin database, which was established in 2010, Norway has a national system for registration of academic publishing. Reporting these and other data concerning academic activities to the government partially dictates funding. Together with institutional archives for realizing green OA …