Open Access Resources

Background Reading

         CIC Environmental Scan Final Report: Survey of faculty practices and attitudes at CIC universities.

Open Access News: One of the best resources to stay up-to-date with current happenings in and around Open Access.

Open Access Overview by Peter Suber: An introduction to the concept of Open Access geared for those who have little to no familiarity.

ARL-SPARC news: News and annoucements from the ARL Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.

Open Access Tracking Project: Community maintained catalog of Open Access related web resources.

Articles Addressing the Benefits of Open Access

Eysenbach G (2006) Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles. PLoS Biol 4(5): e157. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040157

Davis PM, Lewenstein BV, Simon DH, Booth JG, Connolly MJL. Open access publishing, article downloads, and citations: randomised controlled trial. BMJ 2008;337:a568. doi:10.1136/bmj.a568

Hajjem, C., Harnad, S. and Gingras, Y. (2005) Ten-Year Cross-Disciplinary Comparison of the Growth of Open Access and How it Increases Research Citation Impact. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 28 (4). pp. 39-47. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12906/

King, Don, (March/April 2010) An Approach to Open Access Author Payment.  D-Lib Magazine, Volume 16, Number 3/4. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march10/king/03king.html

Kim, Joshua, (April 4, 2010) A Defense of Textbooks.  Inside Higher Ed. Discusses reasons to use textbooks in combination with OER; also see comments.  http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology_and_learning/a_defense_of...

Example Author Addendums

University of Michigan (pdf)

MIT (pdf)

Science Commons:

Access Reuse (pdf)

Delayed Access (pdf)

Immediate Access (pdf)

Example Open Access/Public Access Mandates

Harvard's OA Mandate

MIT OA Mandate