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Additional information about university open access policies
To learn more about university open access policies, please consult the resources listed below.
- Wikipedia article on "Open-access mandate"Brief entry on open access policies, with references.
- A Model Open Access PolicyA Model Open Access Policy, by Stuart Shieber of Harvard, on which URI's policy is based, annotated with explanations. The language "represents the accumulated experience of multiple institutions that have drafted and implemented open access policies."
- Good Practices for University Open-Access PoliciesFrom the Harvard Open Access Project, this is a guide to good practices for university open access policies of the type pioneered by Harvard (and passed by URI).
- List of institutions that have adopted a Harvard-style open access policyList of institutions that have adopted a Harvard-style open access policy, or rights retention policy, from the Good Practices for Open-Access Policies guide.
- Unanimous faculty votes for university OA policiesList of unanimous faculty votes for university OA policies, from the Open Access Directory (OAD).
- "The death of scholarly journals?"Post by Harvard's Stuart Shieber in his blog "The Occasional Pamphlet on Scholarly Communication" on whether open-access policies such as the ones at Harvard will lead to the death of journals (or of scholarly societies, or of peer review).
- "Open-access policies and academic freedom"Post by Harvard's Stuart Shieber in his blog "The Occasional Pamphlet on Scholarly Communication."
- "University open-access policies as mandates"Post by Harvard's Stuart Shieber in his blog "The Occasional Pamphlet on Scholarly Communication" on the non-coercive nature of the Harvard-style open access mandate.
- "Is the Harvard open-access policy legally sound?"Post by Harvard's Stuart Shieber in his blog "The Occasional Pamphlet on Scholarly Communication."
- Copyright and the Harvard Open Access MandateArticle by Eric Priest of the University of Oregon School of Law, published in the Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, vol. 10 (2012). Provides a detailed analysis of the legality under copyright law of Harvard-style university open access policies or "permissions-based mandates."
- Opening the Door: How Faculty Authors Can Implement an Open Access Policy at Their InstitutionsLegal analysis of rights-retention open access policies by Simon J. Frankel and Shannon M. Nestor.
- Campus Open Access policiesResources to support data-driven, community-engaging, and successful open-access policy development at institutions everywhere, from the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system.
- Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI)COAPI "brings together representatives from North American universities with established faculty open access policies and those in the process of developing such policies."
- ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving PoliciesWorldwide registry of proposed and existing institutional mandates, sub-institutional mandates, multi-institutional mandates, funder mandates, and thesis mandates.
- University of California Office of Scholarly CommunicationInformation about the University of California's groundbreaking system-wide open access policy, including promotional videos and interviews with faculty supporters.
Additional information about open access
To learn more about open access in general, please consult the resources listed below.
- Wikipedia article on "Open access"Comprehensive overview of open access, with references.
- Open Access Overview by Peter SuberIntroduction to open access for those who are new to the concept by one of its key advocates.
- SPARC on open accessOpen access resources and readings from the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system.
- Open Access by Peter Suber (MIT Press, 2012)"In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn't, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling a decade of Suber's influential writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers." Updates and supplements are available here.
- Understanding Open Access: When, Why, & How to Make Your Work Openly Accessible (2015)Short book from the Authors Alliance about "when, why, and how to make your work openly accessible," with the goal of encouraging authors to "consider open access publishing by addressing common questions and concerns and by providing real-life strategies and tools that authors can use to work with publishers, institutions, and funders to make their works more widely accessible to all."
- Open Access Tracking Project (OATP)News feed with links to content related to the worldwide movement for open access to research.
- Open Access Directory (OAD)The Open Access Directory (OAD) is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large.
- Open Access Citation Advantage (SPARC Europe)List of studies on whether or not there is a citation advantage for Open Access articles.
- Authors Alliance"Authors Alliance promotes authorship for the public good by supporting authors who write to be read. We embrace the unprecedented potential digital networks have for the creation and distribution of knowledge and culture. We represent the interests of authors who want to harness this potential to share their creations more broadly in order to serve the public good."
Contact information
The University of Rhode Island Open Access Policy is administered by the Faculty Senate.
The Faculty Senate's Committee for Research and Creative Activities serves in an advisory capacity to the Faculty Senate regarding the implementation and interpretation of the Policy.
Contact:
Julia Lovett
Associate Professor / Digital Initiatives Librarian
Faculty Senate Designate for the University of Rhode Island Open-Access Policy
jalovett@uri.edu
(401) 874-5079