Thursday, June 12: Open Access free for all

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Open Access Chat
Thursday, June 12, 2014
9:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Pacific time
#medlibs Twitter chat

This week #medlibs discusses open access. As defined by PLoS, open access (OA)  "stands for unrestricted access and unrestricted reuse." I am not an expert on OA. I am not a lawyer & this is not legal advice. (#IANAL & #TINLA) I like free stuff. I think folks who write & publish should retain what they wrote and published. I want "Big Journa" to not profit so much off scientific research. And full disclosure, I'm planning an 'Author prerogatives' forum with our Office of Research later this year, so I want to hear what other folks are doing in the open access arena.

Questions:

• What do you do when you get copyright/OA questions from your patrons? 
• How do you explain author rights to faculty? 
• Do you consider OA & publishing guidance part of your role at your institution? 
• What OA initiatives & resources are out there for #medlibs? 
• How does anyone profit off OA (vendors, publishers, authors, etc)
• What are the positive and negative aspects of OA? 

Links

• SPARC
• Sherpa/Romeo (Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving)
• Open Access Week (Oct 20-24, 2014, Everywhere)
• List of open access projects (Wikipedia)

Useful Hashtags

• #medlibs
• #OA (open access)
• #IANAL (hee hee)
• #TINLA (for the easily offended)

Open access week is in October. Join us for an #OA conversation, & leave with ideas for your library. That's my sneaky plan. 

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