This document provides an overview of open access publishing models. It discusses traditional publishing where authors sign over copyright to publishers. It also describes issues with the serials and monographs markets, including rising costs and declining library budgets. The document defines gold and green open access models, with gold involving publisher open access journals and green involving institutional repositories. It notes opportunities for open access in the humanities, including the Modern Language Association's support for more open-friendly policies and formats like interactive journals. In closing, it provides suggested further readings on open access topics.

1. Open Access Introduction
• Rafia Mirza
• Digital Humanities Librarian
• Clarke Iakovakis
• Data & eScience Librarian
• Kristine Witkowski
• Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Specialist
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2. Outline
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University Presses
Traditional (or Conventional) Publishing
Serials & Monographs issues
Gold and Green OA
Institutional Repositories
OA and the Humanities
MLA & OA
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3. University Presses
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4. What is traditional or
conventional publishing?
• In conventional academic publishing, the author
signs away their copyright to the publisher
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5. What is traditional or
conventional publishing?
• When you sign away your copyright, you need to
get permission from the publisher
o to put your article on reserve,
o to publish derivative works
o to post it on academic sites like academia.edu
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7. Serials Crisis
Profit margins chart
By Maura A. Smale
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8. Serials Crisis
Monograph
Crisis
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9. Monograph Crisis
• The Future of Scholarly Publishing
o “Library budgets for monographs in the humanities have declined
steadily, in relative and sometimes in absolute terms, leading to
proportional reductions in the number of scholarly books sold.”
o “Subsidies for university presses have also declined as operational costs
have risen, often placing the publishers under great pressure to make
profit-based decisions. “
o “Even as they face growing economic problems, university presses are
receiving ever more submissions as a result of increased expectations for
promotion and tenure in our disciplines and at our institutions of higher
learning.”
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10. What is OA?
• “Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free
of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing
restrictions.” P. Suber
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11. What is OA?
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12. Creative Commons
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13. Gold
• Gold OA
o is delivered by journals
o is Publisher OA
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14. Green
• “There are other models that societies can and
should explore, including the “green” road
provided by institutional repositories and other kinds
of scholarly archives.”
o Openness, value, and scholarly societies: The Modern Language
Association model by Kathleen Fitzpatrick
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15. Research Commons(IR)
• Our ResearchCommons is an Institutional Repository
o complies with Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting (PMH)
• Which means they are interoperable and deposits are indexed by
Google Scholar, Bing, Yahoo, etc.
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16. OA and the Humanities
• Do Open Access Theses & Dissertations Diminish
Publishing Opportunities in the Social Sciences &
Humanities? (College & Research Libraries, PDF,
p.376)
• MLA Office of Scholarly Communication
• [MLA] The Future of Scholarly Publishing, From the
Ad Hoc Committee on the Future of Scholarly
Publishing
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17. OA and MLA
• MLA Journals Adopt New Open-Access-Friendly
Author Agreements
o 6/5/2012, PMLA, Profession, and the ADE and ADFL bulletins.
• Scholarly Communication @ MLA
• Beyond the PDF: Experiments in Open-Access
Scholar
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18. OA Journal: ABO
• ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts,
1640-1830 (ISSN 2157-7129) is an open access,
interactive, scholarly journal, launched in 2011 by
the Aphra Behn Society.
• MLA Roundtable Presentation on Open Access:
Editing Online Scholarly Journals
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19. Suggested Readings
• Open Access By Peter Suber
• The Future of Scholarly Publishing From the Ad Hoc
Committee on the Future of Scholarly Publishing
• MLA Resources on Publishing and Scholarship
• Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology,
and the Future of the Academy by Kathleen
Fitzpatrick, Director of Scholarly Communication at
the Modern Language Association
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20. http://libguides.uta.edu/scholcomm
LOC, East Corridor
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21. Presenters
• Rafia Mirza
• Digital Humanities Librarian
• rafia@uta.edu
• Clarke Iakovakis
• Data & eScience Librarian
• clarke@uta.edu
• Kristine Witkowski
• Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Specialist
• kwitkowski@uta.edu
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