[Insight-users] OPEN ACCESS WEEK : Day 2 : "What Faculty Can Do to Promote Open Access"

[Luis Ibanez]

                  http://www.openaccessweek.org/

                               October 18 - 24

Open Access Week, a global event now entering its fourth year,
is an opportunity for the academic and research community to
continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access,
to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire
wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm
in scholarship and research.

“Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access
to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use
those results as you need – has the power to transform the way
research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and
widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry,
and for society as a whole.


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"What Faculty Can Do to Promote Open Access"

* Submit your research articles to OA journals,
   when there are appropriate OA journals in your field.

* Deposit your preprints in an open-access, OAI-compliant
   archive. http://www.openarchives.org/

* Deposit your postprints in an open-access repository.

*  If you have not yet transferred copyright to a publisher,
    then ask to retain copyright.

*  Deposit your data files in an OA archive along with
    the articles built on them. Whenever possible, link to
    the data files from the articles, and vice versa, so that
    readers of one know where to find the other

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


AND THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE:

* Educate the next generation of
   scientists and scholars about OA

http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Educational_materials_about_OA



More at
http://www.openaccessweek.org/



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     Luis
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