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- 1. Open your Ivory or Sandstone Tower Alex.Holcombe@sydney.edu.au School of Psychology
- 2. What is Open Access? • Free • Permanent • Full-text • Online • Access 2
- 3. Why Open Access? •We do our research to The countries we work with can’t benefit anyone interested, not afford journals; they’re already some exclusive club paying an arm and a leg for textbooks -Sir John Daniel •Many scholars, doctors, patients, engineers, policymakers (and esp. in poor The academic community countries/small universities) is only hurting itself, and can’t get access its long term public support, by keeping its •Academia marginalising itself knowledge behind high subscription walls - •More impact! Andrew Carr
- 4. Why Open Access? •We do our research to The countries we work with can’t benefit anyone interested, not afford journals; they’re already some exclusive club paying an arm and a leg for textbooks -Sir John Daniel •Many scholars, doctors, patients, engineers, policymakers (and esp. in poor The academic community countries/small universities) is only hurting itself, and can’t get access its long term public support, by keeping its •Academia marginalising itself knowledge behind high subscription walls - •More impact! Andrew Carr
- 5. Scientist meets publisher: the video Academic knowledge is boxed in by exclusive, expensive journals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMIY_4t-DR0
- 7. Institutional Subscription Cost, 2012 Experimental Brain Research $13,670 Journal of Radioanalytic and Nuclear Chemistry $19,826 Journal of Mathematical Sciences $17,880 Journal of Materials Science $16,699
- 8. OA HULK WANTS TO KNOW WHO TO OCCUPY! ELSEVIER!? ACS!? HARPERCOLLINS!? YOU NAME IT, OA HULK WILL OCCUPY AND SMASH! Open Access “Hulk” •Not all publishers profiteer •The real enemy is us!
- 9. OA HULK WANTS TO KNOW WHO TO OCCUPY! ELSEVIER!? ACS!? HARPERCOLLINS!? YOU NAME IT, OA HULK WILL OCCUPY AND SMASH! Open Access “Hulk” •Not all publishers profiteer •The real enemy is us! (Maybe not the most evil, but the enemy easiest to change)
- 10. •Support open access journals (www.openaccesspledge.com) •Deposit your articles in the university repository (http:// ses.library.usyd.edu.au/ •Even with closed journals, you usually have the right to deposit your final version (e.g. Word document before typeset by publisher) •Best for university and its funders if research outputs open access; indeed it’s mandated by: •NIH, Wellcome Trust •Princeton, Harvard •Queensland University of Technology Let me know if you want to help open Sydney Uni alex.holcombe@sydney.edu.au twitter: @ceptional
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- -I made a short video that first showcases the silliness of this situation and then describes a few of the things we should do to tear down these walls.\n\n\n
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