1. ANG 5117: Open Access in Anthropology
Devin Soper
Scholarly Communications Librarian
Office of Digital Research & Scholarship

2. 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

3. 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

4. Systemic Problems
ARL Libraries,

5. 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

6. OA Benefits

7. 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

8. OA Options

9. Open Archiving

10. Open Repositories http://www.opendoar.org/
For context, many of these services evolved to support making scholarship openly accessible online, an end that has

11. Data Repositories

12. DigiNole

14. SocArXiv / SSRN

15. tDAR

16. Discussion Prompt
Break into small groups (2-3) and search for data in tDAR:
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

17. Copyright in Data & Traditional Knowledge

18. 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.)

19. Copyright in TK

20. Copyright in TK

21. 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?