Publishing for the 21 st Century: Open Access for Greater Impact Open Access Week 2010 October 20, 2010

October 20th Program Publishing for the 21st Century: OA for Greater Impact 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. Keynote: “Open Access and Public Access to Research: It’s our Mission”, Mark R. McLellan, dean for research, IFAS 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. “The UF Open Access Publishing Fund: How it Works and What it Means to You”, Isabel Silver, director, academic and scholarly outreach, Smathers Libraries, with UFOAP recipients 2:30 – 2:45 p.m. BREAK and POSTER SESSION soft drinks

October 20th Program 2:45 – 3:30 P.M. “Maintaining Author Rights to Your Own Intellectual Property”, Elizabeth Outler, head, public services, Legal Information Center, College of Law 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. “Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communications”, Sophia Acord, associate director, Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere 4:00 – 4:15 p.m. “Digital Scholarship – the and Disciplinary Repositories”, Dina Benson, coordinator, Institutional Repository, Digital Library, Center with faculty 4:15 – 4:30 p.m.Open Access Networking: Questions and Discussion

October 22 - Program 9:30am to 4:30pm Levin College of Law, 345 Holland Hall Webcast: “Implementing the Durham Statement: Best Practices for Open Access Law Journals” Webcast, hosted on campus. For more information, please contact Elizabeth Outler at

New Models of Scholarly Communication Faculty-driven Reaction to the restricted flow of information  Open science, open data, blogs, open access Reaction to traditional models of control Technology enables new interactions – Collaboration – Free flow of information – Supports distributed scholarship

Open Access Defined Open-access (OA) literature is – digital – online – free of charge to readers – free of most copyright and licensing restrictions – and requires the consent of, or attribution to, the author or copyright-holder – Peter Suber, Focusing on open access

Why OA is so Important to Researchers Research is published faster It is available online Gives research timely visibility, wider readership, higher citation rates, and greater overall impact. Barriers to access are having a significant negative impact on research Timely, open, online access to the results of federally-funded research in the US will significantly increase the return on the public’s investment in science

Global and National Initiatives UNESCO: for the benefit of global knowledge flow, innovation and socio-economic development 2008 NIH mandate 2009 introduction of Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) Other funding agencies also: Wellcome Trust and Canadian Institutes of Health Research

OA in Peer Institutions Many research universities have Open Access policies, encouraging or mandating faculty to submit peer- reviewed articles to Institutional Repositories. Some top-tiered Universities have OA publishing funds

The Need for Open Access Concept of “public access”: taxpayers, federal agencies, and universities pay twice for funded research High costs of journals are now unsustainable Barriers to access are having a negative impact on research

Steps Toward Open UF Promotion of the UF institutional repository Establishment an OA publishing fund Creation of a faculty-driven university- wide OA policy

We invite you to participate in the the Institutional Repository and Open Access Publishing Fund Judy Russell Dean of University Libraries Isabel Silver Director, Academic and Scholarly Outreach Visit our website:

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mark McLellan