1. WIT Libraries

2. WIT Institutional Repository Update David Kane, WIT

3. WIT Libraries About Scholarly Communication Current System (for 350 years) Problems Increased sum of human knowledge The Journals Crisis

4. WIT Libraries Publications from Waterford/WIT over last 3 decades

5. WIT Libraries The Rising Cost of Journals $14k

6. WIT Libraries The Rising Cost of Journals $16k

7. WIT Libraries Journal Prices From 2000 to 2004, the increase in median price for 12 journal publishers rose between 27% (Cambridge U.P.) and 94% (Sage). Library and Information Statistics Unit (Loughbrough University)

8. WIT Libraries Open Access Free, immediate, permanent access to research for use, downloading and distribution. 2 Approaches Journal Reform Self Archiving

9. WIT Libraries 91% of Journals allow you to publish on an Inst’l Repository

10. WIT Libraries Open Access Benefits Promotion individuals and institutions Cross-fertilization between disciplines Access for non-academic users ( e.g. policy makers ) Citation advantage

11. WIT Libraries Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

12. WIT Libraries Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

13. WIT Libraries WIT Repository 4 th academic repository in the state Others include DCU UCD Maynooth TCD

14. WIT Libraries WIT Repository http://repository.wit.ie/

15. WIT Libraries