1. Presented by Lisa Villa
Open Access
Presented by Lisa Villa

2. The bigger picture
Before explaining all about Open Access, I thought it might be helpful to understand the bigger picture into which it fits.

3. Scholarly communication
is the system of creating, evaluating disseminating and preserving research and other scholarly writings – Association of Research Libraries
communication
“Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.”--Peter Suber (2004, revised 2010; verview.htm)
Institutional Repository
“a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members.-- Clifford Lynch (2003;
CrossWorks
A publishing service of the
Holy Cross Libraries
Scholarly communication is the system of creating, evaluating, disseminating and preserving research and other scholarly writings.
Open Access is access to scholarly literature that is digital, online, free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
An Institutional Repository is a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its members
CrossWorks is the open access institutional repository for the College of the Holy Cross and a publishing service of the Holy Cross Libraries.
To learn more contact Lisa Villa, Digital Scholarship Librarian, at or x2767

4. Open Access
Did you hear about the 15-year-old who developed a new, better test for cancer?

5. Jack Andraka is the 15-year-old winner of the Intel Science and Engineering Fair whose project was developing a test for pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancer that is cheaper, faster and more accurate than the current gold-standard test. He won a $75,000 prize, is in the process of getting a patent and has been contacted by major pharmaceutical companies. How did he do it? Open Access.
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6. WHAT is Open Access? Digital Online Free of Charge
Free of most copyright and licensing restrictions

7. WHO does it affect? Students/scholars Researchers
Educational institutions
Businesses
Research funders
The general public

8. WHY is it needed?
Cost barriers (high-priced subscriptions, paywalls) and use restrictions prevent or restrict the flow of information from becoming available to the full community of potential users.
This does not mean only students and other researchers who cannot afford to constantly pay for each article they need, or libraries whose budgets can’t support all the subscriptions its community would like. It also relates to colleges and universities in developing countries where there is little money for expensive subscriptions and fees.

9. HOW does it benefit?
Get all the information you need, not just what the library can provide, without worrying about price.
Discover scholarly research too new or specialized to have a widespread presence.
Gain access to taxpayer-funded research made available to the public through the NIH Public Access Policy. 
Employ alternative rights scenarios, such as Creative Commons, in order to more widely use and share intellectual output

10. WHERE can you find it?
Do you have access to the internet? There it is! But here are some more direct ways:
DOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories)
ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories)
BioMed Central (free archive for full-text biomedical and life sciences journal articles)
Digital Commons Network (free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide)
Institutional repositories (Harvard, Yale, UMass Medical School, just to name a few)
CrossWorks (HC’s own institutional repository)

11. Why publish? Spread Your Passion Share Your Knowledge
Advance Your Field
Advance Your Career
Why are scholars encouraged to consider Open Access when publishing?
For the very same reasons you seek publications to begin with:
You have an area of study that you are passionate about, and you want to share your work to advance and enhance the knowledge in your field. You want to make sure that everyone has the ability to access it.
And besides, advancing the knowledge in your field may help advance your career.

12. Publishing Compatibility
Peer Review
Copyright Protection
Prestige
Quality
Indexing
Open Access publishing is compatible with all the features associated with conventional scholarly literature: peer-review, copyright protection, prestige, quality, and indexing.

13. Institutional Repositories
What are they?
How do they work?
What do they contain?
What are the limitations?
An institutional repository is the managed collection of intellectual output from a community, which is published electronically, often in an Open Access platform. It is a showcase of the amazing work being produced here at Holy Cross. And it is not just limited to literature, either. The intellectual output can be anything from papers to journal articles to theses to data sets, to an image of a visual art piece to a video. There are really no limits to what can be put in an institutional repository.

14. crossworks Institutional Repository Open Access
Publishing Service for the College Community
crossworks.holycross.edu
Crossworks is the name of our institutional repository. You can access it at Currently, the College’s Archives and the New England Jesuit Province Archives have populated it with some wonderful treasures, digitally reproduced and available for your viewing pleasure. And not just yours. In the short time it has been live, there have been almost 2600 downloads to date.
Take a tour of CrossWorks -> Archives -> Crusader

15. Advantages of CrossWorks (for authors)
Increased Visibility
Preservation
Showcase Research
Future Reference
Visibility to Citations
Advance Academic Reputation
Promotion of Open Access Principles
Education about Intellectual Property
Increased visibility for your scholarship and creative works via Google and other internet search engines.
Preservation and access to content through a permanent URL.
Allows academic departments and programs to showcase student research.
Ability for students to link to their work in applications for graduate school or jobs.
Monthly download reports to monitor usage and citations to your work.
Advancement of the academic reputation of Holy Cross.
Promotion of open access principles
Scholarly communication depends on access to research
Sharing your work encourages others to share
Providing direct access to articles and other content for users around the globe improves opportunities for knowledge exchange
Opportunities to learn more about intellectual property, copyright, and author rights.

16. For more on open access crossworks.holycross.edu
digitalcommons.bepress.com
creativecommons.org