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1 Open Access for the Medical Librarian
Andrew Waller & Heather Morrison Canadian Health Libraries Association 2006 Conference: Pearls of Wisdom

2 Open Access: A Definition
OA is “free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.” (Budapest Open Access Initiative, December-4-18 Canadian Health Libraries Association 2006 Conference: Pearls of Wisdom

3 Some Reasons For Open Access
Access to research information Access to taxpayer-funded research Facilitates evidence-based medicine Promotes equity of access Author control Library costs December-4-18 Canadian Health Libraries Association 2006 Conference: Pearls of Wisdom

4 Main Flavours Of Open Access
Author self-archiving Open Access publishing December-4-18 Canadian Health Libraries Association 2006 Conference: Pearls of Wisdom

5 Author Self-Archiving
Lists of OARs: Directory of Open Access Repositories ( Registery of Open Access Repositories (archives.eprints.org) CARL Institutional Repositories Project (( repositories-e.html) Landspítali University Hospital research archive (landspitali.openrepository.com/lsh) Some subject repositories: PubMed Central ( E-LIS (eprints.rclis.org) Publisher copyright & self-archiving policies ( December-4-18 Canadian Health Libraries Association 2006 Conference: Pearls of Wisdom

6 Open Access Publishing
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) ( Free Medical Journals ( BioMed Central ( Paying for Open Access publishing: - many options! December-4-18 Canadian Health Libraries Association 2006 Conference: Pearls of Wisdom

7 Some Issues Economic models for Open Access
Getting content into repositories The library situation December-4-18 Canadian Health Libraries Association 2006 Conference: Pearls of Wisdom

8 Open Access Policy and Research Funders
Open Access is the optimum for dissemination of research Open Access means: More researchers to continue next steps More impact for professionals, educators and others Show value to the taxpayer support for more research $ Quote posted on CIHR web site: “Universal adherence, without exception, to a principle of full disclosure and unrestricted access to data and materials that are central or integral to published findings will promote cooperation and prevent divisiveness in the scientific community, maintain the value and prestige of publication, and promote the progress of science (U.S. National Academies of Sciences)” December-4-18 Canadian Health Libraries Association 2006 Conference: Pearls of Wisdom

9 U.S. National Institute of Health
NIH Public Access Policy (2005) ( NIH: “requests and strongly encourages all investigators to make their NIH-funded peer-reviewed, author's final manuscript available to other researchers and the public through the NIH National Library of Medicine's (NLM) PubMed Central (PMC) immediately after the final date of journal publication.” December-4-18 Canadian Health Libraries Association 2006 Conference: Pearls of Wisdom

10 NIH…dismal compliance, & next steps
less than 5% compliance Research: 81% of researchers willing Public Access Working Group recommends: Change request to requirement Shorten permissible delay to 6 months December-4-18 Canadian Health Libraries Association 2006 Conference: Pearls of Wisdom

11 U.S. Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 (FRPAA)
Federal funding agencies with extramural research budget of $100 million or more: Implement public access policy Researchers required to supply an electronic copy of manuscript accepted for publication Open access within 6 months of publication Resources on FRPAA, from Alliance for Taxpayer Access site: Endorsed by: ALA, ARL, ACRL, MLA, SLA, AALL December-4-18 Canadian Health Libraries Association 2006 Conference: Pearls of Wisdom

12 Wellcome Trust Open and Unrestricted Access to Published Research
Grantees must deposit articles within 6 months of publication in PubMedCentral (PMC) PMC UK in development All grants awarded since October 2005 December-4-18 Canadian Health Libraries Association 2006 Conference: Pearls of Wisdom

13 Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR)
Policy in development: Access to Products of Research Survey - comments due May 15, 2006 Suggestions for responses: December-4-18 Canadian Health Libraries Association 2006 Conference: Pearls of Wisdom

14 Policy & Open Access Archives (Institutional Repositories) - Required Deposit at:
CERN: over 360,000 documents Queensland Institute of Technology Lund University Southampton University In development: Athabasca University December-4-18 Canadian Health Libraries Association 2006 Conference: Pearls of Wisdom

15 What’s coming Dramatic growth in OA Directory of Open Access Journals
2,225 journals as of May 8, 2006 Average titles added per day OAIster (federated archive search): 7.3 million records, 634 institutions Growth in PubMed fulltext More, broader mandates For libraries and librarians: transitional times, new roles - more info literacy, reference / research, collections as archives December-4-18 Canadian Health Libraries Association 2006 Conference: Pearls of Wisdom

16 What you can do Promote open access resources
Links to PubMedCentral & DOAJ on website Set up DOAJ as a link resolver target Encourage OA publishing & self-archiving Develop & support an open access policy Sign the Budapest Open Access Initiative Comment on CIHR draft policy December-4-18 Canadian Health Libraries Association 2006 Conference: Pearls of Wisdom

17 Some Conclusions Open Access resources are significant, and growing
Open Access is a multi-armed creature – there are many approaches to Open Access We live in interesting times – many open access policy initiatives in progress The final conclusions: up to us! December-4-18 Canadian Health Libraries Association 2006 Conference: Pearls of Wisdom

18 Resources PubMedCentral: A Free Archive of Life Sciences Journals ( NIH Public Access Home Page: ( The Wellcome Trust: Open and unrestricted access to the outputs of published research ( December-4-18 Canadian Health Libraries Association 2006 Conference: Pearls of Wisdom

19 Resources Peter Suber’s Open Access Overview ( Open Access News ( Swan, Alma. Open Access Self-Archiving: an Introduction ( ) Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek Jahresbericht December-4-18 Canadian Health Libraries Association 2006 Conference: Pearls of Wisdom

20 Your Speakers Andrew Waller Serials Librarian University of Calgary Library (403) Heather Morrison Project Coordinator BC Electronic Library Network (604) December-4-18 Canadian Health Libraries Association 2006 Conference: Pearls of Wisdom

21 Questions for you… CIHR Access to Products of Research and…
Association of Faculties of Medicine in Canada? CHLA? OA Librarian blog? Questions for us? December-4-18 Canadian Health Libraries Association 2006 Conference: Pearls of Wisdom

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