Open Access Advocacy

1. Open Access Advocacy
Sridhar Gutam

2. What is Open Access?
• refers to unrestricted online access to articles
published in scholarly journals, and also
increasingly to book chapters or monographs
(Wikipedia).
• literature is digital, online, free of charge,
and free of most copyright and licensing
restrictions. What makes it possible is the
internet and the consent of the author or
copyright-holder (Peter Suber).

3. How Open Access be Provided?
• "Green OA” is provided by authors publishing
in any journal and then self-
archiving their postprints in their institutional
repository or on some other OA website.
• "Gold OA” is provided by authors publishing in
an open access journal that provides
immediate OA to all of its articles on the
publisher's website.

4. Adoption statistics

5. Green OA Mandate

6. Who benefits from Open Access?
• Society as a whole benefits from an expanded
and accelerated research cycle - researchers
have immediate access to all the findings they
need.
• The visibility, usage and impact
of researchers' own findings increases with
OA.
• Universities co-benefit from their researchers'
increased impact, which also increases
the return on the investment of the funders of

7. What you can do to promote OA?
• Submit your research articles to OA journals,
when there are appropriate OA journals in
your field.
• Deposit your preprints/postprints in an open-
access, OAI-compliant archive.
• When asked by a colleague to send a copy of
one of your articles, self-archive the article
instead.
• Consider launching an OA journal in your area
of specialization.

8. Open Access Resources
• Open Access India
https://www.facebook.com/groups/oaindia/
• Open Access Directory
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page
• Enabling Open Scholarship
http://www.openscholarship.org
• Open Access Week Oct 24-30, 2011
http://www.openaccessweek.org/