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Copyright & Fair Use for Digital Projects
1. Copyright & Fair Use for Digital Projects
Publish or Perish Reframed:
Navigating the New Landscape
of Scholarly Publishing
Office of Scholarly
Communication Services
Berkeley Library
Rachael Samberg, J.D., MLIS
Timothy Vollmer, MSI
3. The State of OA, Piwowar et al.
https://peerj.com/articles/4375/3
4. Our Speakers for Today
- Rachael Samberg
- Timothy Vollmer
- Benjamin Hermalin
- Philip Stark
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5. “The distinctive mission of the University is to serve society
as a center of higher learning, providing long-term societal
benefits through transmitting advanced knowledge.”
MISSION: “TRANSMITTING ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE”
6. UC authors 50,000 articles / year
But only 15% freely available*
*In final published form
(just 6% for Elsevier)
MISSION: “TRANSMITTING ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE”
7. Publishing Lifecycle
(adapted from University of Winnipeg)
Creation
Evaluation
Publication
Dissemination
& Access
Preservation
Reading /
Reuse
Topic is conceived proposed,
funded, pursued
Project is reviewed
for quality
Publisher edits,
provides layout, other
services
Works are distributed
Copies or versions
are saved for
posterity
Works are read,
cited, recombined
14. Green
Open Access
Opportunities
● Distributed costs
● Deposits are free
● Long-term preservation
Challenges
● Barriers to depositing
● Confusion re: versions
● Perception of lack of
authoritativeness of
“post-print”
● Dependent on publishers
foregoing waivers
15. Gold Open Access -
Article Processing
Charges (APCs)
Opportunities
● Authors exert market
pressure through
decision-making,
potentially keeping APCs in
check
● Library subscription spends
or memberships repurposed
to cover APCs
Challenges
● Availability of $ to cover
author-pays approach
● Need to control hybrid
journals
16. Gold Open Access -
No APCs (sometimes
called “diamond OA”)
Opportunities
● No cost to authors
● Inherently equitable
for “Global South”
Challenges
● Vulnerability; depends
on collective $ pool
● Too great a ratio of
institutions need to
participate to
incentivize / avoid
free rider