The Future of Academic
Information & Scholarly Publishing: Open Access & Open Archiving
Wednesday, 3/23/05, Faculty Center, Rhode Island
College.
In order to make Rhode Island College faculty and students aware of the vital scholarly communication issues of open access publishing and open archiving & institutional repositories, library faculty of the James P. Adams Library organized an open colloquium. As the College pursues cooperative action with other institutions of the HELIN Consortium in establishing an institutional repository, we will continue to keep these issues before the faculty. Please contact us with any questions, comments, or requests for assistance with either open access publishing opportunities or open archiving possibilities [Contact information].
Guterman, Lila. “2 Routes to Open Access: Archives and Institutional Subscriptions.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 January 2004, A11.
___________. “The Promise and Peril of ‘Open Access.’” The Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 January 2004, A10-A12, A14. http://chronicle.com/free/v.50/i21/21a01001.htm
Speaker 1
Julia Blixrud, Assistant Director for Public Programs at SPARC - the Scholarly
Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition founded by the Association
of Research Libraries [ARL].
SPARC is an alliance of academic and research libraries and scholarly organizations whose focus is to facilitate the emergence of systems that capitalize on the networked environment to disseminate research. Its strategies include expanding competition and supporting open access publication to address the high and rising cost of scholarly journals – a trend which inhibits the advancement fo scholarship. Ms Blixrud is responsible for grassroots outreach and education programs aimed at scholars, scientists, researchers, librarians, and university and scholarly publishers, with the goal of expanding faculty involvement in open access publishing and open archiving of scholarly literature.
The keynote speaker presented an overview of the origins, development, and significance for academic authors of open access publishing and its relationship to open archiving, especially in institutional repositories.
Speaker 2
Mark Caprio, Program manager, eScholarhip@bc, Boston College
This invited speaker provided attendees with the broad principles upon which the Boston College institutional repository was founded, as well as an excellent view of the workings of a thriving open archive which includes individual papers, e-journals, and theses and dissertations produced at BC.
Speaker 3 & 4
Judith Stokes, Serials Librarian, and Patricia Brennan, Head of Reference,
James P. Adams Library
Each discussed the results of their research into the relationship between faculty journal publications within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, current publisher policies on open archiving as revealed in the SHERPA/Project RoMEO Copyright Lists [and our own Project JULIET – JoUrnals onLInE policy sTatements], and the potential future population of an institutional repository at Rhode Island College.
For additional information about these presentations, the issues they address, or assistance for faculty with publisher policies or open access options, please contact either Tish Brennan or Judith Stokes at the James P. Adams Library.
Author's Addendum from SPARC [Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition] - an easy way for you to retain your rights to deposit your work in an institutional repository or professional archive.
Tish Brennan (Assistant Professor)
Head of Reference Services/Library Instruction Coordinator
401-456-8125
pbrennan@ric.edu, orJudith Stokes (Assistant Professor)
Serials Librarian
401-456-8165
jstokes@ric.edu