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Scholarly Communications at Mount Sinai: What is Open Access?
Information for the Mount Sinai community on issues related to scholarly communications, including author rights and copyright, research evaluation, open access, and NIH publication support
Books on Open Access
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Open Access by This book brings together many of the worlds leading open access experts to provide an analysis of the key strategic, technical and economic aspects on the topic of open access. Open access to research papers is perhaps a defining debate for publishers, librarians, university managers and many researchers within the international academic community. Starting with a description of the current situation and its shortcomings, this book then defines the varieties of open access and addresses some of the many misunderstandings to which the term sometimes gives rise. There are chapters on the technologies involved, researchers, perspectives, and the business models of key players. These issues are then illustrated in a series of case studies from around the world, including the USA, UK, Netherlands, Australia and India. Open access is a far-reaching shift in scholarly communication, and the book concludes by going beyond todays debate and looking at the kind of research world that would be possible with open access to research outputs. Chapters by leading experts in the field, including Professor Jean-Claude Gu餯n, Clifford Lynch, Stevan Harnad, Peter Suber, Charles Bailey, Jr., Alma Swan, Fred Friend, John Shipp and Leo Waaijers Discussion of open access from a wide range of perspectives Country case studies, summarising open access in the USA, UK Netherlands, Australia and IndiaISBN: 1780632118Publication Date: 2006-07-31 -
The Access Principle by An argument for extending the circulation of knowledge with new publishing technologies considers scholarly, economic, philosophical, and practical issues. Questions about access to scholarship go back farther than recent debates over subscription prices, rights, and electronic archives suggest. The great libraries of the past - from the fabled collection at Alexandria to the early public libraries of nineteenth-century America - stood as arguments for increasing access. In The Access Principle, John Willinsky describes the latest chapter in this ongoing story - online open access publishing by scholarly journals - and makes a case for open access as a public good. A commitment to scholarly work, writes Willinsky, carries with it a responsibility to circulate that work as widely as possible: this is the access principle. In the digital age, that responsibility includes exploring new publishing technologies and economic models to improve access to scholarly work. Wide circulation adds value to published work; it is a significant aspect of its claim to be knowledge. The right to know and the right to be known are inextricably mixed. the best-equipped lab at a leading research university and a teacher struggling to find resources in an impoverished high school. Willinsky describes different types of access - the New England Journal of Medicine, for example, grants open access to issues six months after initial publication, and First Monday forgoes a print edition and makes its contents immediately accessible at no cost. He discusses the contradictions of copyright law, the reading of research, and the economic viability of open access. He also considers broader themes of public access to knowledge, human rights issues, lessons from publishing history, and epistemological vanities. The debate over open access, writes Willinsky, raises crucial questions about the place of scholarly work in a larger world - and about the future of knowledge.Call Number: Z 286 O63 W733 2006ISBN: 0262232421Publication Date: 2005-10-07 -
Copyright Versus Open Access by This book addresses the recent debate about copyright law and its impact on the distribution of scientific knowledge from an economic perspective. The focus is on the question whether a copyright regime or an open access regime is better suited to the norms and organizational structure in a purely global science community. The book undertakes a thorough economic analysis of the academic journal market and showcases consequences of a regime change. It also takes account of the Digital Divide debate, reflecting issues in developing countries. Finally, a comprehensive analysis of legal action in the light of international Intellectual Property (IP) agreements offers prospects on the future of academic publishing. ISBN: 331912739XPublication Date: 2014-12-29
Unrestricted Access to Scholarly Output
What is Open Access? "Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment." - SPARC
Benefits of Open Access
- Widest possible audience for your research: maximize your impact
- Author Rights: retain the rights to reuse and distribute your research.
- Unrestricted access benefits everyone: no paywalls to scholarly research
- Accelerates the rate of scientific discovery
What are Article Processing Charges (APCs)? APCs are fees paid by authors, their institutions, or funders in order to make an article available under the open access model. These fees range by journal as well as article type and length. APCs may sometimes be optional, where a subscription journal allows authors to opt-in to the OA model. Alternatively, some journals are fully open access, where all articles are subject to the charge and the entire journal is openly available. See the "Types of Open Access" tab for more information.
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Related Resources
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BioMedCentralOpen access journal publisher. All Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai authors receive a discount on publishing fee with BioMed Central.
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PubMed Central (PMC)Free archive of biomedicine and life science journal articles. From the National Library of Medicine (NLM), a division of the NIH.
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Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)Search for open access content. Over 2,400 repositories and a responsive search interface automatically mapping to 21 languages.
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Directory of Open Access BooksThe Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a discovery service for Open Access monographs. DOAB provides a searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published under an Open Access business model, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository.
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Directory of Open Access JournalsDOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
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cOAlition SAn initiative to make full and immediate Open Access to research publications a reality.
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Directory of Open Access Repositories Open DOAROpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of over 2,200 academic open access repositories.
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Registry of Open Access Repositories ROARThe aim of ROAR is to promote the development of open access by providing timely information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world. Over 3,300 repositories listed.
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SPARC Author AddendumSecure your rights as the author of a journal article.