and usability of digital information. “Openness” as a solution Motivated by the public interest to maximize the power and value of digital information to learn, create, and solve problems.
on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software or use them for any other lawful purpose…” - The Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002
manuscripts; may also refer to theses, books, book chapters, monographs and other content Open Data Open Educational Resources Open Source Software from Open Glossary: http://figshare.com/articles/Open_Research_Glossary/1482094
Compatible with copyright, peer review, revenue, print, preservation, prestige, quality, career-advancement, indexing. Often focused on publicly-funded research. There are two primary vehicles for delivering OA to research articles, OA journals and OA repositories
the institution certain non-exclusive rights to future research articles published by faculty. This sort of policy typically offers a waiver option or opt-out for authors. It also requires deposit in the repository. Faculty Driven
an article you’d like to publish. Your university has no open access policy. What do you want to know before you decide where and how to publish? 2 - You are a huge openness advocate and have created a slide-set you think may be useful for others. Which CC license do you choose? 3 - You have 15 minutes with the Provost who wants to know why campus should have an open access policy; what are the 3 points you will make?