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SPARC Offers Next Steps for Authors Who Have Signed the Elsevier Boycott
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has prepared a "suggested next steps" resource meant to assist in moving sentiments surrounding the Elsevier boycott into additional constructive, tangible action, beyond the first steps of the boycott. The "SPARC Guide to Campus Action" provides some additional actions, larger or smaller, for individuals and collections of scholars to consider. More...
Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) Supports Public Access to Research
The Federal Research Public Access Act of 2012 is bi-partisan legislation introduced Feb. 9, 2012 that requires that research funded by the federal government be made available to the public within 6 months of publication. Among the sponsors of FRPAA is Representative Kevin Yoder (R-KS). More...
Scholars Encourage Boycott of Elsevier
In protest against business and political practices of publisher Elsevier that hamper the availability of scholarly research, 11,264 scholars to date have signed a pledge not to publish, referee or serve on editorial boards for Elsevier journals until Elsevier "radically changes how they operate." They encourage their colleagues world-wide to sign as well. As of 5/07/2012, there were 35 KU faculty that have signed this pledge. More...
Open Access in the News
May 1, 2012: News from Britain: Wikipedia founder to help in government's research scheme (The Guardian)
April 24, 2012: Harvard University says it can't afford journal publishers' prices (The Guardian) Note: This article includes a nice list of links on Open Access topics in the right sidebar.
April 24, 2012: Life after Elsevier: making open access to scientific knowledge a reality (The Guardian)
April 16, 2012: Wellcome Trust Acts to Open Research Findings to the Public (New York Times)
April 14, 2012: Open Sesame (The Economist)
April 9, 2012: Academic spring: How an Angry Maths Blog Sparked a Scientific Revolution (The Guardian)
More..Open Access Webcasts
April 9, 2012: Panel discussion about open access issues from Harvard Law School
March 29, 2012: Senate Hearings Examine Public Access and Scholarly Publication Interests
KU responds to the White House Request for Information
The White House has released the responses to its Request for Information seeking input about how to best provide access to research funded by the federal government. At least six KU faculty sent in responses. More...
KU Chancellor Gray-Little signs the Berlin Declaration
In October, 2011, KU Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, reaffirming the KU commitment to making scholarly research more widely available. The University of Kansas was among the first institutions in the U.S. to sign the Declaration. More...
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What is Open Access?
Open Access is an international movement that has the goal of making peer-reviewed published scholarship available free of charge to the public and to the global scholarly community.
For additional reading about open access in general we recommend the well-referenced http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access.
Open Access @ KU
11,264
The number of researchers to date that have signed the pledge not to publish, review, or serve on editorial boards for Elsevier Journals
72
The number of scholarly communities in KU ScholarWorks
21,078
The number of times that the most popular KU ScholarWorks item-- Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)--has been downloaded or viewed since 2007
2009
The year that the KU Open Access Policy was approved by the Faculty Senate
1,312,817
The number of times that items in KU ScholarWorks have been downloaded since 2007
2,647,787
The number of searches performed in KU ScholarWorks since 2009
124,367
The number of searches performed in KU ScholarWorks in March, 2012
262
(and growing) The number of dissertations and theses in the Pre-1923 Dissertations and Theses collection at http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7158
KU Faculty's Open Access Policy
The KU Faculty Open Access Policy (revised and passed the faculty senate on February 11, 2010) is a mechanism that asserts the rights of KU faculty to provide broad, free access to their journal publications to colleagues around the world.
Under the policy, KU faculty can exercise these rights by retaining enough copyrights and once rights are retained provide KU with the necessary bibliographic information and a copy of the publication. KU then provides efficient and effective access to these publications by means of KU ScholarWorks.
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