1. Update on Open Access & Activities at Penn State Presentation for Faculty Senate Committee on Libraries, Information Systems, and Technology (LIST) Linda Friend & Patricia Hswe University Libraries Publishing & Curation Services September 9, 2014 1

2. Presentation agenda  Open Access (OA) definition reminder  OA Environment Today  OA Activities at Penn State  Progress on Mandates, Policies  Potential for Future Involvement – Barbara Dewey 2

3. Definition of Open Access A Reminder 3

4. Open access - publication or distribution of research results which limits or removes payments, fees, licensing, or other barriers to readers’ access to research reports, journal articles, conference proceedings, books, data, or any other type of scholarly literature or research product. - Adapted from Mike Furlough Executive Director, HathiTrust 4

5. The Open Access Environment Today 5

6. Green vs. Gold OA 6  Green  Self-archiving a publication on the web (e.g. in ScholarSphere)  Early example is using FTP, pre internet  Gold  Publishing in an OA journal  Began to appear around 1990  Now about 1/3 of the est. 25,000 peer reviewed journals

7. 7 From the SHERPA/RoMEO site

8. Quick Facts  Published journal numbers not declining  Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory/Ulrichsweb – over 10,000 new publications from 2013-2014 (about 25,000 peer-reviewed)  Currently 826 scholarly societies have two or more open access journals, 64 societies have at least two  Adoption of open access publishing increasing in most disciplines  It’s probably a myth that “most OA journals charge author fees” 8

9.  9,967 journals  5,827 searchable at article level  134 countries publishing OA  1,705,601 Articles 9

10. OA Is Increasingly International in Scope

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12. Open Access Support and Activities At Penn State 12

13. Time Line of Penn State Actions in Support of Open Access to Research  2001 - Electronic Theses and Dissertations introduced  Joint effort of Graduate School, Libraries, ITS  2008 - CIC Provosts’ Statement/Author Addendum  2010 - Financial support for open access publishing – Libraries sponsored  2012 - ScholarSphere – collaboration of Libraries and ITS  2013  LIST informational report to Senate  Libraries service for publishing journals and conference proceedings using open access software  2014 - Libraries Faculty will vote on motion supporting Open Access publishing

14. Senate Informational Report from LIST Committee 14

15. Penn State eTD/eHT Services 15

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17. Progress on Faculty OA Mandates, Policies

18. 2014: Library faculty soon to vote on Open Access motion 18

19. 45 Unanimous OA Faculty Adoption Votes So Far… Policies, Resolutions, Mandates 2008-2009 Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences McQuarie University Harvard School of Law Sanford University School of Education University College London (UCL) Boston University Oregon State University, Library Faculty Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) University of Calgary, division of Library and Cultural Resources University of Pretoria (first in Africa) University of Oregon, Library Faculty University of Oregon, Department of Romance Languages Gustavus Adolphus College, Library Faculty York University, librarians and archivists Universidad de Oriente (Venezuela) Oberlin College University of Northern Colorado, Library Faculty 2010-2014 Wake Forest University, Library faculty California Polytechnic State University Oregon State University College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences (COAS) University of Virginia Rollins College Faculty of Arts and Sciences (minus Graduate School of Business) Duke University University of Puerto Rico School of Law San Jose State University University of Northern Colorado Trinity College Dublin Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Emory University University of Pennsylvania Princeton University Florida State University Pacific University Bifröst University Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto Utah State University University of California - San Francisco Wellesley College College of Wooster University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Library faculty University of Rhode Island

20. Common Features of Faculty OA Policies  Faculty members retain the copyright to their work/articles and can turn copyright over to a third party, such as a publisher.  University is granted the non-exclusive right to post online for open access  Faculty are encouraged to avoid - or request to modify - publishing contracts that prohibit open access posting.  A single repository service is often specified as the official dissemination site for the faculty works [e.g. ScholarSphere]; can deposit the same content elsewhere (disciplinary repository, personal website, etc.) – non-exclusive distribution

21. Questions & Comments? 21

22. Next Steps & Action Items – Dean Barbara Dewey 22