North American Campus-Based Open Access Funds: A Five-Year Progress Report
abernard102@gmail.com 2014-11-03
Summary:
"In 2009, SPARC unveiled its “Campus-Based Open Access Funds” resource. It was intended to provide
actionable information to institutions contemplating the creation of an Open Access (OA) Fund,
institutions that were already operating such a Fund, authors seeking to learn more about the
opportunities these Funds could provide, and anyone else in the scholarly communication community
wanting to keep abreast of important developments in this area. The resource has, since its inception,
provided a wealth of background information, practical resources, policy guidelines, and hard data
documenting OA Fund developments. As we approach the five year anniversary of this resource’s launch, SPARC is providing this progress report to apprise the community on the quantitative and anecdotal successes of campus-based OA
Funds across North America, as well as those areas in which these Funds have not fully realized their
potential. Consider this an interim update on a mechanism that remains very much a work in progress.
SPARC looks forward to continuing to monitor OA Fund developments and to report this information to
the community ... "