Educating Faculty

• FAQ by University of Maryland Library
• Learning from the Senate defeat of Open Access at University of Maryland
• Advice on Working with Faculty Senates (2010)
  

Articles

Here are two articles by Heather Joseph, who visited SJSU in March 2009:

• Joseph, H. (2008). Getting the message across. Journal of Cell Biology Nov. 3, 2008; 183 (3): 368.
• Joseph, H. (2008). A question of Access—evolving policies and practices. Journal of Library Administration 48 (1):95–106. (Note: Off-campus access to this article requires logging in through the SJSU King Library using your ID and password.)

See also the articles by the staff of Public Library of Science.

Open Doors and Open Minds A SPARC / Science Commons white paper that describes what faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution.

Knowledge Exchange comparative reporton Costs and Benefits of Open Access. An EU Report on Open Access. Knowledge Exchange. Danish Agency for Libraries & Media. June 22, 2009.

Books

Hall, Gary. Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now, 2008.
http://catalog.sjlibrary.org/record=b3629287~S1 (link to entry in SJSU online catalog)

Harnessing Openness to Improve Research, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Draft)
Washington, D.C., Committee for Economic Development, 2009


Author rights / Copyright

http://copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/ The Copyright Advisory Office of Columbia University in New York City has launched a fully revised and updated website of copyright issues. This is a well organized resource for answering your everyday copyright questions.

Perspectives Online February 2009, 47 (2)
Viewpoints: Forum on Intellectual Property

• Boris, E. (2009) New world of publishing:intellectual property, journals and the web
• Benedict, M.L. (2009) The new world of publishing and new directions in intellectual property
• Kessler-Harris. A. (2009) Authors' rights in an age of electronic production

Open Access Policies

• Peter Suber, “Three principles for univiersity open access policies,” SPARC, April 2008
  
• “Developing an Institutional Open Access Policy,” OASIS, June 25, 2009
• Open Access Now — Bethesda Principles,” April 11, 2003
• Specific policies
• NIH Public Access Policy Details January 11, 2008
• OA Policy at Harvard University. Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences, February 12, 2008
• Boston University Open Access Initiative February 17, 2009
• Stanford University School of Education Open Access Motion June 10, 2008
• Oregon State University Library Faculty Open Access Policy March 6, 2009
  • OSU Guidelines for LFA Open Access Mandate
• MIT Faculty Open-Access Policy March 18, 2009
• Open Access Policy for University of Kansas Scholarship May 22, 2009
• List of UC Berkeley open access initiatives including its Scholarly Publication Statement of Principles
  

• The University's Role in the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship--A Call to Action
• “List of universities and other institutions with open access mandates

Open Access Journals

• Directory of Open Access Journals (more than 3500 open access journals)
• Open J-Gate (more than 4500 open access journals)
• Public Library of Science, its core principles, and FAQ

Webcasts

The Harvard Initiatives for Open Access to the Scholarly Literature, Stuard M. Shieber, Harvard. Presented at Caltech, March 26, 2009, Produced in association with Caltech Digital Media Services. (length 1:27:27)

Websites

SPARC - Campus Open Access Policies Provides links to resources and support for the creation of a campus OA policy.

OASIS - Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook: Developing an Institutional Open Access Policy

EOS - Enabling Open Scholarship - The aim of (EOS) is to further the opening up of scholarship and research that we are now seeing through the growing open access, open education, open science and open innovation movements.

Open Access Overview: Focusing on open access to peer-reviewed research articles and their preprints
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm

The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), a strategic initiative founded by the Association of Research Libraries, is a catalyst for promoting a scholarly communication environment that is more open, financially tenable, and supportive of the current research and information needs of academe. The web site provides links to information on open access, author rights, etc.
SPARC www.arl.org/sparc

Blogs

Open Access News, edited by Peter Suber http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html