1. A strategic conversation with Tim Jewell and Thom Deardorff

3. What?
“Open Access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.”

4. Why?

5. For-Profit vs. Non-Profit
Notes from Ben Marwick/Mike Rosenfeld’s slide set: For-profit publishers charge about 3x more than non-profit publishers, and their profit margins are among the highest of any industry. Yet we as researchers provide most of the value in their product by writing and reviewing papers. Many scholars believe that a critical mass of Open Access practices will help drive down journal subscription costs and shrink the profit margins of publishers. See also for a comparison of for-profit publishers and other industries
For-Profit vs. Non-Profit

6. Responses Funder OA mandates University OA policies
Foundations (Wellcome Trust, Gates, NSF)
Governments (NIH, etc.)
University OA policies
Harvard
University of California
UW?

7. OA Goals and Opportunities
Public Benefits
Author benefits
Funders:
fairness
speed progress
Readers
enrich education
level playing field
Readership
Citations
Reputation
Career advancement

8. What can be made Open Access?
Journal articles
Theses and Dissertations
Research reports and “gray literature”
Research data
E-books
Textbooks and
Open Educational Resources (“OERs”)
Etc., etc.

9. Green vs. Gold

10. Green
Repository based
PubMed Central (NIH)
arXiv
Institutional
Trends

11. Gold Journal based Fees from $0 - $5,000 Trends Fully-OA (+/- 11,000)
Public Library of Science
“Hybrid”
Fees from $0 - $5,000
Trends

12. Questions, thoughts, comments,
ideas?

13. What is the UW doing about OA?

14. Early Developments
2007 UW Office of Research adopts and posts UW Statement of Position on Open Access to Research Results
2008 National Institutes of Health begins requiring funded research papers be made available to the public for free through PubMed Central.
2009 UW Faculty Senate approves legislation asking faculty to prepare for a future where academic works would be openly accessible.

15. OA at UW 2015
Faculty Senate passes a resolution to create an open access policy and infrastructure.
Issues to be considered
Enhance ResearchWorks
Provost provide resources
Develop an open access policy
Vice Provost of Digital Initiatives/Dean of University Libraries coordinates the work.

16. Work to Date
Betsy created OA Policy Steering Group and OA Initiative Advisory Group.
Policy and background information developed.
Faculty survey on ResearchWorks conducted. Review of ResearchWorks initiated.
Campus groups consulted: Faculty Councils on Libraries and Research and Research Advisory Board.
Report to Provost and Faculty Senate due March 28

17. The Policy
Purpose – Make research and scholarship freely and widely available.
Grant of Rights – Faculty give UW a non-exclusive right to make their articles available
Scope and Waiver – Faculty can get a waiver for any article for any reason
Implementation – The Provost or Provost’s Designate will manage the policy.

18. Policy Implementation
Provost and Senate get report on March 28
Not clear what will happen next given the full agenda of the Faculty Senate
Needs to be a wider discussion of OA
Need more clarity on how the policy can be enabled in the UW environment.
Fuller discussion needed on resources to support OA

19. Will this affect my work?
All staff need to know the outlines of the policy and where to get more information.
Most new work will be in support of ResearchWorks and policy interpretation.
Number of articles submitted and workload will depend on the system we set up: faculty initiative or article citation “harvester”

20. Citation Harvester

21. Discussion Questions How will open access change scholarship?
What is the best way to promote OA?
What is the best way to communicate with staff about open access?
How should we communicate with faculty?