NFAIS | Event Details --Open Access to Published Research: Current Status and Future Directions

"Open Access Publishing was a natural outgrowth of the 'serials crisis' – the period from 1963 through 1990 when the average price of periodicals increased 11.3% per year and that of books increased 7.2% per year. By the year 2000, collaboration across authors, libraries, and not-for-profit as well as commercial publishers resulted in a variety of interesting, low-cost, high-quality publishing ventures which many thought were unsustainable.  But initiatives such as the Public Library of Science and BioMed Central, both founded in the year 2000, proved the doubters wrong and continue to grow due to significant social, financial, technical and legislative forces. These forces have taken the open access publishing model to a new level where the focus is on open access to all published research – even that contained in traditional commercial journals. This workshop will take a look at the state of open access to published research today and the factors that are driving it.  It will examine the role played by the government and discuss how the new initiatives such as CHORUS and SHARE fit in. Traditional publishers will discuss their response to the pressure for open access to all government-funded research, and in closing it will take a glimpse at the future of open access and the challenges to balancing the needs and objectives of both the publishing and user communities ..."