SPARC Europe presentation at OAI9 By Alma Swan "Open Access – everything you want to know but were afraid to ask" 17 June 2015, Geneva

1. Open Access – everything you
want to know but were afraid to
ask
Alma Swan
SPARC Europe
Key Perspectives Ltd
Enabling Open Scholarship
Open Access café, OAI9, Geneva, 17-19 June 2015

2. Open Access: what
• Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002)
• The literature (and data) that scholars give away for free
(peer-reviewed but may also include preprints)
• Barrier-free (financial, legal, technical and temporal
barriers)
• To read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link
to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing,
pass them as data to software, or use them for any other
lawful purpose

3. Open Access: how
• Open Access journals (www.doaj.org)
• Open Access repositories
• Open Access monographs

4. The format for this morning
• Café
• Team of experts
• 25-minute Q&A sessions (x4)
• Plenary:
– Q&A (if any!)
– Wrap-up

5. Timetable
• Welcome and introduction
• Café session (2 x 25-minutes)
• Coffee break
• Café session (2 x 25-minutes)
• Wrap-up

6. Topics and tutors
Topics Expert
Institutional repository infrastructure: Repository infrastructures and
networks: Interoperability issues (the COAR Interoperability Roadmap), OpenAIRE
guidelines and services
Dr Eloy Rodrigues (University of Minho)
Open Access policies: development, wording, coverage, institutional benefits
from Open Access
Dr Alma Swan (SPARC Europe)
Library advocacy: Library advocacy to researchers and/or senior managers,
staffing, promotion, collaboration, library organisations and how they can support
OA
Dr David Prosser (Research Libraries UK)
Implementing an Open Access policy in a university: Managing a
repository, adding services, promoting Open Access, providing incentives for authors,
tools to encourage deposit, library advocacy to managers and authors, etc
Dr Elena Giglia (University of Turin)
Open science, tools for open research: the broad open science picture,
openness in research practice, tools to enable and foster open practices
Dr Peter Murray-Rust (University of
Cambridge)
‘Gold’ Open Access: OA journals, article-processing charges, quality/quantity,
‘predatory’ journals, Directory of Open Access journals
Lars Bjornshauge (DOAJ)
Institutional publishing: scholar-led journals, library-as-publisher, technologies,
the current global picture
Dr Victoria Tsoukala (Greek
Documentation Centre/Natl Hellenic Res Fdn)
FOSTER (Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research): Update on the
project, training courses, opportunities to get involved
Iryna Kuchma (EIFL)

7. Thank you for coming
almaswan3@gmail.com
www.sparceurope.org
www.openscholarship.org