AFMC Committee on Libraries May Open Access Views from the Research Library Joyce Garnett University Librarian, Western Board Member, Association of Research Libraries Past President, Canadian Association of Research Libraries Former Health Sciences Librarian

AFMC Committee on Libraries May Overview Research library associations Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) Developments: growing the movement and sustaining momentum Challenges to scholars and researchers

AFMC Committee on Libraries May CARL Initiatives (1) AUCC-CARL Task Force – report 1996 SPARC ->Create Change -> OA collaboration Strategic Directions Scholarship (incl Open Access) Institutional Repositories various software all open source, 22 participants at different stages of development CARL Harvester maintained at Simon Fraser

AFMC Committee on Libraries May CARL Initiatives (2) Original signatory to BOAI CARL’s brief to SSHRC urging open access Role of granting councils in setting OA policy consultn_brief.pdf (Nov05) consultn_brief.pdf Alouette Canada Open Digitization Initiative Born digital and born again digital National metadata toolkit

AFMC Committee on Libraries May Developments -International Budapest Open Access Initiative 2001 – Open Society Institute (Andy Soros) Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities Major public funders from France & Germany committed to open access, plus some from Greece, Hungary, Italy and Norway World Summit on the Information Society 2003 – declaration of the need for access to and sharing of information

AFMC Committee on Libraries May Developments – U.S. Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing Major private funders of biomedical research committed to open access Howard Hughes Medical Institute provides authors with grant fees to pay pub’n charges (up to $3000 in FY2004) NIH NIH –funded investigators to deposit e-copy with PubMed Central Universities Kansas, UCalifornia Irvine, Cornell, Columbia

AFMC Committee on Libraries May Developments - Canada SSHRC Declaration of commitment to the principle of Open Access Oct 2004 Congress of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, June 2005 Study of current business models of SSHRC journals CIHR NSERC NRC (CISTI) journals to.ca IDRC – first Cdn govt agency with IR

AFMC Committee on Libraries May Developments - Ontario Scholars Portal Archiving of digital content O-Zone institutional repository CORIL learning objects repository

AFMC Committee on Libraries May Data Depositories National Consultation on Access to Research Data (NCASRD) Sponsored by NRC, CFI, CIHR, NSERC Complements earlier study for the Social Sciences ncasrd-cnadrs.scitech.gc.ca/NCASRDReport_e.pdf (Jan05)

AFMC Committee on Libraries May Why Open Access? Public good – taxpayers $ Exposure – higher profile Removes barriers to access for all Third world – access for the information poor Power of serendipity – re-discovery and re-use of research data

AFMC Committee on Libraries May What can scholars do? Scholars as authors, reviewers, editors, publishers Move to e-publishing Initiate open access for their society Recognize open access journals as credible for P&T and granting decisions Support international, national and local declarations Speak to librarians

AFMC Committee on Libraries May Further Exploration Peter Suber’s blog (searchable) Comprehensive bibliography Directory of OA journals APLSP study on Open Access (Oct05) (Apr06) CIBER Report for the International Association of STM Publishers (Sept05)