[Insight-users] OPEN ACCESS WEEK: DAY #2 : "What Faculty can do to promote Open Access"

[Luis Ibanez]

Webcast -

               http://blip.tv/file/1406960

Sir Richard Roberts, Ph.D., F.R.S.,

joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993,

explains why he supports Open Access.

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What Faculty can do to promote Open Access:

http://www.openaccessweek.org/wp-content/uploads/what-faculty1.pdf  (Letter)
http://www.openaccessweek.org/wp-content/uploads/what-faculty-a4.pdf (A4)


A) Deposit your preprints in an Open-Access AOI-compliant archive:

                   http://www.openarchives.org

     If you have questions about archiving your eprints, then see
     Stevan Harnad's Self-Archiving FAQ.

              http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/self-faq


B) When asked to referee a paper or serve on the editorial board for
     an Open Access Journal, accept the invitation.

      Faculty needn't donate their time and labor to journals that
      lock up their content behind access barriers where it is less
      useful to the profession. Universities should support faculty
      who make this otherwise career-jeopardizing decision.

      Faculty don't need to boycott priced journals...
      but they don't need to assist them either.

C)   If you are an editor of a toll-access Journal, then start an
       in-house discussion about converting to Open Access,
       experimenting with Open Access, letting authors retain
       copyright, abolishing the Ingelfinger rule, or declaring
       independence (quitting and launching an Open Access
       journal to serve the same research niche).

D)   Work with your professional societies to make sure
       they understand Open Access. Persuade the organization
       to make its own journal OA, endorse OA for other journals
       in the field, and support OA eprint archiving by all scholars
       in the field.

          http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm


E)   Educate the next generation of scientists
       and scholars about OA.