Open Access Publishing

• Open access 2013: A year of gaining momentum
• Open Access Globally

Regulatory environment

Australia:

• NHMRC’s policy on the dissemination of research findings
• ARC Open Access Policy

UK:

• Open Access Research – HEFCE
• Research Councils UK (RCUK) Policy on Open Access
• UK move to ‘open access’ in publishing ‘misguided’
• The UK’s Open Access Policy: Controversy Continues – May 23, 2013
• The changing world of open access

Resources

• Australian Open Access Support Group (AOASG)
• SHERPA/RoMEO Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
• Institutional repositories have work to do if they’re going to solve the access problem
• Do Open Access Electronic Theses and Dissertations Diminish Publishing Opportunities in the Social Sciences and Humanities?

Office Hours : Open Access

This recently added video about Open Access by two Harvard professors addresses questions about making research (including dissertations) openly available…“if you want to avoid being scooped, make sure you tell everybody what it is that you are doing and what your ideas are” – Gary King, Harvard University

Issues

• Book publishing and open access
• Compliance with mandates difficult when researcher is not part of a university

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