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Martin Halbert, Dean of Libraries University of North Texas

Strategies for Fostering a Culture of Open Access : Reports from the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions. Martin Halbert, Dean of Libraries University of North Texas CNI Spring 2013 Meeting, San Antonio, TX Friday, April 5, 2013.

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Martin Halbert, Dean of Libraries University of North Texas

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  1. Strategies for Fostering a Culture of Open Access:Reports from the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions Martin Halbert, Dean of Libraries University of North Texas CNI Spring 2013 Meeting, San Antonio, TX Friday, April 5, 2013

  2. The Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI) • Formed in 2011, comprised of 52 North American universities with established open access policies or developing such policies. Aims: • share information and experiences • to illuminate opportunities for moving faculty-led open access forward at member institutions • advocate for open access nationally and internationally • http://www.arl.org/sparc/about/COAPI COAPI Strategies for Fostering a Culture of Open Access

  3. UNT Open Access Timeline 2010: University Open Access Policy Committee co-chaired by Dean of Libraries and Assoc. Dean of College of Information 2011: the University of North Texas Faculty Senate voted to approve the UNT Policy on Open Access to Scholarly Works 2012: UNT offices of General Counsel and System Chancellor’s office implement official university policy 17.5 (Policy for Open Access, Self-Archiving and Long-Term, Stewardship for UNT Scholarly Works) 2012-2013: Fostering a culture of OA comprehensively across the university COAPI Strategies for Fostering a Culture of Open Access

  4. UNT Open Access Symposia 2010 Symposium: Broad overview of OA topics, scholars & publishers, keynote StevanHarnad 2011 Symposium: Relationship of Open Access and Open Source SW, keynote John Willinsky 2012 Symposium: Open Access to Publicly Funded Research Data, keynote Myron Gutman 2013 Symposium: OA and the Futures of Academic Publishing, keynote Kathleen Fitzpatrick COAPI Strategies for Fostering a Culture of Open Access

  5. New Library Positions with OA-related roles and responsibilities Repository Librarian: Charged with actively identifying and gathering and depositing in UNT Scholarly Works Repository copies of faculty research papers Scholarly Communication Librarian: (lawyer and librarian) advises faculty on OA issues and conducts campus OA awareness programs Born-digital Collection Development Librarian: Actively seeks to cultivate and improve visibility and access to OA resources COAPI Strategies for Fostering a Culture of Open Access

  6. Some not-bad practices noted along the way Smaller OA advisory sessions Provide handouts with information to take away (about the SPARC addendum, services) Maintain an effective website with links and additional information Explain to faculty how open access potentially increases their citation count and fosters wider dissemination of their scholarship COAPI Strategies for Fostering a Culture of Open Access

  7. UNT 2013 Open Access Symposium Will examine where academic publishing is headed in the future Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Director of Scholarly Communication at the MLA) and other researchers will discuss new models for publishing, including OA May 30-31 in Dallas, TX http://openaccess.unt.edu COAPI Strategies for Fostering a Culture of Open Access

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