Slides from a talk I gave for UTS Information & Knowledge Management students before Open Access Week in October 2015

1. WHY OPEN ACCESS
& WHAT IS IT?
@malbooth

2. open access week
for collaboration
19 - 25 October, 2015
in discussion Peter Scott, Assistant DVC (Education)
22 October, 4.30pm | Events Space
book launch Zoë Sadokierski & Cecilia Heffer
22 October, 5.30pm | Events Space
film screening All week in the Events Space
ACCESS
OPEN
A global movement to provide
FREE online access to research
$7MILLIONANNUAL COST FOR
UTS LIBRARY TO
PROVIDE STUDENTS
& STAFF WITH
ACCESS TO ONLINE
SUBSCRIPTIONS
$150K - $900KANNUAL COST FOR ACCESS
TO DATABASES LIKE SCIENCE
DIRECT, LEXISNEXIS, PROQUEST
AND EBSCOHOST
FREE
OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOKS &
OTHER RESEARCH MATERIALS ARE FREE TO
ACCESS FOR ANYONE, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME
$16,000HIGHEST ANNUAL COST FOR A
SINGLE JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION
UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F

3. The traditional model for
academic publishing is both
broken and unsustainable

4. | reform dumb laws
| hacking for public
good
| pursuit of social
justice
| knowledge for all,
not just the elite
| Guerrilla OA
Manifesto
AARON SWARTZ,
1986-2013

5. | you should
watch this
documentary
| it was
crowdfunded

6. The traditional model for academic publishing is both broken and unsustainable
| Colombian grad student
| facing prison sentence for sharing
a paper with peers on Scribd
| for the crime of KNOWLEDGE
SHARING

7. | left academia:
“an industry
designed on
insularity”
| only the elite
retain access
| has the pursuit
of career goals &
value for money
meant forgetting
the furthering of
knowledge?
https://shar.es/1uuNNa

8. you should also watch this video
https://youtu.be/RhDR1I4DpTo

9. Green Open Access
a version is available for free via
an institutional repository | find
via Google Scholar
Gold Open Access
published as OA | may have APCs,
but 70% DOAJ journals levy no APCs
| UTS ePress

10. & Open Access

11. So what
can you do?

12. | take a
postcard
| come to
an OA week
event

13. install the OA button on your
browser
join R2RC (it is being updated)
read Open Access by Peter Suber

14. some people to follow on the need for
Copyright law reform (in Australia)
@Aus_Digital @nicsuzor @DrRimmer