Stanford GSE Student Open Access Policy: information session

presentation made at information session about the OA policy students at the Stanford Graduate School of Education voted on between May 21-24th, 2013.

News of announcement can be found at: https://ed.stanford.edu/news/gse-students-adopt-open-access-policy-scholarship

Transcript

1. GSE STUDENT OPEN ACCESS POLICY info session
2. WHAT IS “OPEN ACCESS” ANYWAY? • literature that is online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions • some settle for first part • comes in many different forms: our policy is aiming to expand OA through “self-archiving”
3. WHY BOTHER? I ALREADY HAVE ACCESS TO EVERYTHING • you do, because you are a privileged elite university student... • what about teachers? school administrators? scholars at less well-resourced institutions? • did you know ONLY 20-25% of the literature is Open Access. Everybody else sees...
4. THAT’S $37!!! for an article I wrote. In a special issue on: “the search for the ethical university”
5. THE ABSURDITY OF IT ALL • the public funds the research • scholars do the work (part of the research fund, unpaid, or part of their job) • scholars do the writing (part of the research fund, unpaid, or part of their job) • scholars do the editing/reviewing (unpaid, or part of their job) • you give up full rights to your work, including your versions before you signed the agreement • publishers do some copyediting/layout • university libraries pay to access the work (or the public pays) • publishers make large profits, while the university library system is in $$ crisis
6. WE HAVE A WINNER! but I did something about it
7. SELF-ARCHIVING
8. SOME IMPORTANT TERMS • pre-print (aka “author's pre-print”) • post-print (aka “author’s post-print”) • publisher’s version (aka file that goes on the journal’s webpage)
9. THIS IS THE POST-PRINT http://openarchive.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/Wilinsky_Alperin_0.pdf
10. WHAT IS ACTUALLY INVOLVED?? • before you submit, check SHERPA/RoMEO: • http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ • science • Journal of the Learning Sciences • if you have a blue or green: • simply upload your paper upon getting acceptance email • for yellows and whites: • when you (or first author) sign the copyright agreement, attach the “author addendum”
11. UNFORTUNATELY Sage (AERA) and Taylor & Francis are big in education and are both “yellow”
13. AND IF THEY REFUSE? • you have two options: • withdraw your paper, because publishers who refuse suck • or simply waive yourself out of the policy (you upload the last version you’re allowed to the archive, and explain there is a waiver)
14. UNDER WHOSE AUTHORITY? • this is a student policy, not a mandate • we’re not enacting a law. This is an expression of the will of the student body. If we all agree, then we’re bound by our commitment only to ourselves. • there wont be any enforcement, only encouragement
15. THEN WHY BOTHER? • because: • it sends a message to the rest of the world that we care about public access and public use of research • it secures support from the administration to keep this initiative going • its a way to encourage your peers and your professors to ensure their research is circulated
16. QUESTIONS?