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“Shouldn’t the way we share research be as advanced as the Internet?” Open access, digital repositories and authors’
rights are key terms for scholarly communication. Join a BGSU team that just returned from the Association of College
and Research Libraries Institute on Scholarly Communication and share information, resources, and multiple viewpoints
about the beneficial and/or controversial changes in store for everyone involved in preserving, filtering and accessing
information. This discussion is timely because the OhioLINK Digital Resource Commons will be available soon and will
help you rapidly publish and comprehensively access the wealth of research, historic and creative materials produced
by Ohio’s scholarly communities.
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More Information on Open Access
A fairly comprehensive overview of open access can be found on Peter Suber's Open Access Overview.
A more brief statement can be found on the American Library Association's (ALA) Scholarly Communication Toolkit, Alternative Models for Disseminating Scholarship.
More Information on Author's Rights
Again, from ALA's Scholarly Communication Toolkit, Author Controls.
Take a look at OhioLINK's site, The Challenge for Ohio Higher Education – Providing Access to Scholarly Publishing, particularly the Recommendations for Retention of Intellectual Property Rights, which include draft author addendas to submit when your research is being published.
More Information on OhioLINK's Digital Resource Commons
General information about the DRC. Even more can be found in the documents on the DRC Overview page.
You asked, "What specific author's rights will be built into the DRC," and, "When faculty add content to the DRC, do they lose authorship or possession of that content?" The OhioLINK DRC FAQ answers these questions.
You requested additionalMore information on issues of promotion and tenure and publishing in open access journals. Below are a number of resources that deal with aspects of quality control, peer review, bibliometric tools, and tips for promoting open access.journals
Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/ DOAJ includes 2597 scientific and scholarly journals in all disciplines, Currently 781 journals are searchable at the article level. Journals must be peer-reviewed to be included.
What you can do to promote open access http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/do.htm Provides lots of tips for anyone involved in the scholarly communication process.
The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html A bibliography of studies and tools for assessing the impact of research published in open access journals.
SHERPA/RoMEO: Publisher copyright policies and self-archiving http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/projects/sherparomeo.html A tool to look up publisher policies on author rights in the online environment.
JULIET http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/index.php A SHERPA/RoMEO project that provides a summary of policies given by various grants organizations.
RoMEO http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php Use this site to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement.
You asked forMore information on the role of professional and scholarly societies in theand open access process.
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/article.asp?id=1&did=47&aid=750&st=&oaid=-1 The ALPSP has endorsed the Goals for Public Policy - Scholarly Communications Statement of Principles produced in the UK by the Research Information Network
A strategy for open access to society publications http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/pitman/strategy.html Jim Pitman’s strategy for moving the Institute of Mathematical Statistics toward open access publishing.
Lists Related to the Open Access Movement http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/lists.htm#statements Peter Suber’s list includes links to societies that have published statements on open access, either favorable or unfavorable.
