ANG 5117: Open Access in Anthropology Devin Soper Scholarly Communications Librarian Office of Digital Research & Scholarship dsoper@fsu.edu 850-645-2600
Agenda Systemic Problems in Academic Publishing Open Access (OA) Authors’ Rights “Green” OA Archiving “Gold” OA Publishing OA Repositories Data as Intellectual Property Copyright & Traditional Knowledge
Systemic Problems Most practicing anthropologists are NOT affiliated with universities, so they won’t have access to paywalled research Jill Cirasella, Les Larue, CC BY NC
Systemic Problems ARL Libraries, 1986-2010
Open Access ...the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need. -SPARC
OA Benefits http://libguides.aston.ac.uk/c.php?g=356327&p=2404666
Negotiate your publication contracts Authors’ Rights Negotiate your publication contracts retain the right to self-archive your work FSU publication contract addendum (& instructions) Explore new publication venues OA journals let you keep your rights Exercise your rights deposit your work in DigiNole! For context, many of these services evolved to support making scholarship openly accessible online, an end that has
OA Options http://library.stonybrook.edu/scholarly-communication/open-access/
Open Archiving
Open Repositories http://www.opendoar.org/ For context, many of these services evolved to support making scholarship openly accessible online, an end that has http://www.opendoar.org/
Data Repositories http://www.re3data.org/
DigiNole http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/repository
http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu%3A274046
SocArXiv / SSRN https://osf.io/view/socarxiv/ https://www.ssrn.com/en/
tDAR http://core.tdar.org/
Discussion Prompt Break into small groups (2-3) and search for data in tDAR: http://core.tdar.org/ Examine a dataset and consider these questions: How useful is the data for reproducibility? Does the data include documentation? How useful is the data to your own research? How accessible is the data? Is the data licensed for reuse? Report back to the group
Copyright in Data & Traditional Knowledge
Copyright in Data Quick and dirty: No copyright in dataset values or other granular elements Copyright in dataset as a whole, and in any supporting documentation (data papers, dictionaries, etc.) http://www.abantecart.com/document_wiki/images/thumb/e/ea/Dataset_01.png/700px-Dataset_01.png
Copyright in TK http://bit.ly/2g9LfY3
Copyright in TK https://www.lib.utk.edu/news/files/2015/07/licenses.png
Discussion Prompt Do your research interests touch on areas of sacred or traditional knowledge? If so, what can you do to ensure that the traditions and expectations or relevant communities are respected?