The document discusses open access and the scholarly communication system. It notes that traditionally, academics publish research to communicate findings, further careers, and benefit institutions, but commercial publishers own the scholarly record and libraries must repurchase faculty research. The document advocates for open access options like institutional repositories and open access journals to make scholarship more accessible and distribute benefits more widely. It provides examples of organizations, websites, events, and guides supporting open science and open access initiatives.

1. Taking Back the Scholarly
Record: Why Open Access
Matters
Jim Hobbs, Loyola University New Orleans
Open Access Week 2018
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2. Where are we today?
• What is the scholarly record?
• Who owns it?
• Who controls it?
• Who benefits from it?
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3. Why do academics publish?
• Human need to communicate
• Promotion and tenure review
• Institutional prestige
• Grant requirements
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4. Scholarly publishing system
• Research
• Write
• Submit
• Review
• Revise and resubmit
• Publication (if all goes well)
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5. But wait, there’s more!
• Abstracting and indexing services
• Bibliometrics
• Altmetrics
• Post-publication review
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6. Interrogating the
scholarly communication system
• Who does the work?
• Who benefits?
• To what end?
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7. Positive aspects
• Stability
• Quality assurance
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8. Negative aspects
• Success not always based on quality
• Cost in a commercial environment
• Inflation in an era of static budgets
• Libraries buy back their faculty research
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9. Can it be done to bring advantage to more
participants?
• Open access builds on peer review
• Institutional repositories: green open access
• Open journals: gold open access
• Hybrid open access
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10. Forces at work
• The Internet
• Cost
• Shrinking or static budgets
• Promotion and tenure review
• Discoverability
• Commercial publisher reactions
• Predatory publishers
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11. What can we do?
• Moving to open access publication
• Read and cite open access journals
• Referee for open access journals
• Serve on editorial boards for open access journals
• Avoid hybrid journals
• Avoid predatory journals
• Give equal weight in promotion and tenure deliberations
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12. The future is open
• European Plan S by 2020
• Open education resources (OERs)
• Open textbooks
• Open software
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13. Publications for more information
• Harnad, Stevan. “Open Access” in Ethics, Science, Technology, and
Engineering: A Global Resource. Ed. J. Britt Holbrook. Vol. 3. 2nd ed.
Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2015. p313-316.
• Suber, Peter. Open Access. MIT
Press. https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_(the_book)
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14. Organizations
• Creative Commons. https://creativecommons.org/ Creative
Commons helps you legally share your knowledge and creativity to
build a more equitable, accessible, and innovative world.
• LOUIS. “LOUIS is a [Louisiana] library consortium widely recognized as
a model for cost-effective collaboration in higher education.” LOUIS
Open Access Week 2018 Suggested Events and Activities
http://louislibraries.org/ld.php?content_id=45103220
• SPARC. https://sparcopen.org/ SPARC is a global coalition committed
to making Open the default for research and education.
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15. Websites
• Benefits of Open Access | Why Open
Access? https://www.plos.org/open-access
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). https://doaj.org/ Lists
12,184 journals, with 9,146 of them searchable at article level,
representing 128 countries and 3,406,998 articles.
• Open Access Directory. http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page
• Reddit: Open Science. https://www.reddit.com/r/Open_Science/ Not
limited to open access, open data, open education, open peer review,
and open source.
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16. Blogs
• Society for Scholarly Publishing. Scholarly Kitchen:
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/
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17. Events
• Open Access Week. http://www.openaccessweek.org/ Third week in
October of each year.
• Open Education Week. https://www.openeducationweek.org/ Early
March of each year.
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18. LibGuides
• Loyola University New Orleans. Open Access and Open Educational
Resources. http://researchguides.loyno.edu/openaccess
• George Washington University Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library.
Scholarly Publishing. https://libguides.gwumc.edu/scholarlypub
• University of Utah. Scholarly Publishing and Copyright. (includes
predatory pournals).
https://campusguides.lib.utah.edu/scholarlypublishing
• Xavier University Louisiana. Affordable Course Materials and Open
Educational Resources (OER).
http://libguides.xavier.edu/c.php?g=712477
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19. Videos
• Piled Higher and Deeper (PHD Comics). Open Access Explained.
• https://youtu.be/L5rVH1KGBCY
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20. Any questions?
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