Open-Access Policies: Basics and Impact on Content Recruitment

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-11-06

Summary:

"The allure of passing an institutional open-access (OA) policy as a strategy to populate an institutional repository is clear. After all, educating faculty to retain their rights to their scholarly publications through passage of such a policy, then requiring them to make those publications available through an IR seems a sure path to success. However, this approach of 'if you pass it, they will comply' rings eerily similar to the early and decidedly misplaced optimism of populating institutional repositories through a “build it and they will come” proposition (Salo, 2007). The Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies (ROARMAP) reports, though, that 73 campuses now have some form of institutional, departmental, or school open-access policy in place. Additionally, the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI) consists of more than 60 institutions that have OA policies in place or are actively working to pass them. Some of the most dramatic growth in COAPI membership and ROARMAP registration occurred in 2013, indicating that open-access policies are increasing in popularity and have been implemented with success (Duranceau & Kriegsman, 2013; Kipphut-Smith, 2014). So, while OA policies are not a panacea for obtaining repository content, with the right approaches in development and implementation they can provide content, educate campus communities, and enhance faculties’ academic freedom through rights retention. This chapter will explore some of the types of open-access policies and discuss whether or not an OA policy may be right for every institution."

Link:

http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1347&context=libraryscience

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.ir oa.green oa.mandates oa.advocacy oa.policies oa.repositories oa.rights-retention oa.universities oa.hei oa.policies.universities oa.deposits oa.compliance

Date tagged:

11/06/2015, 09:14

Date published:

11/06/2015, 04:14