One year later, KU shown to be leader in open access scholarship

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"It’s been just more than a year since KU became the first public university in the United States to implement an open access policy for published scholarship. In that time, the practice of making research available to anyone — not just journal subscribers — has grown at KU and around the world....“I’d categorize the steps we’ve taken to be supportive to other campus open access advocates as aggressive,” said Lorraine Haricombe, dean of libraries.... Ada Emmett, associate librarian for scholarly communications, said KU ScholarWorks can show faculty authors how often their research is being downloaded, and where the download is coming from. She cited ecology and evolutionary biology as a department that is taking advantage of open access as a way to expand the reach of its research. Last year, the department had just over 3,000 of its documents downloaded from the repository. So far this year, more than 13,000 have been downloaded....To help encourage more departments and faculty members to make their research available via open access, the libraries have identified early adopters and “open access liaisons.” The liaisons work with faculty within their departments to learn more about the policy and utilize the services of the library for help participating. Library staff now offer a “full service” submission process by uploading articles for authors, both to encourage participation and avoid adding another task to the already full schedules of faculty members....KU is also answering questions from across the country about how to implement such a policy and encourage faculty authors to take part...."

Link:

http://oread.ku.edu/~oread/2010/november/15/stories/access.shtml

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » Connotea Imports

Tags:

oa.new oa.mandates oa.case.policies.universities oa.oa_week oa.policies

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 15:32

Date published:

11/16/2010, 14:59