stony-brook-open-access

The Stony Brook University Open Access Policy: tools to support faculty ‘- Hello & Welcome! ‘- Darren Chase Head of the Center for Scholarly Communication Stony Brook University Libraries darren.chase@stonybrook.edu SBU University Senate adopted the Open Access Policy on February 6, 2017 ‘- more information at library.stonybrook.edu/openaccess How the Policy Works Faculty retain copyright to ‘-their work and issue to university a non-exclusive license to exercise rights under copyright, including distribution and display How the Policy Works ‘Faculty deposit articles into an open access repository or publish them in an open access journal and provide a link How the Policy Works ‘Faculty may opt out of the policy for any article for any reason Scope of the Policy Covered: • Faculty • “Scholarly articles,” including materials published in journals, conference proceedings, etc • Articles with a publication agreement signed after February 6, 2017 Not covered: • • Students Post-docs and researchers • • • • • Books‘Popular, non-scholarly articles Fiction and poetry Lecture notes Articles published before the policy was passed The SBU Open Access Policy Leverages Green Open Access Authors retain copyright ‘-Publish in the journals of their choice Share accepted manuscripts in an OA repository Avoid APC fees Advantages of the Policy The corpus of SBU faculty works will be made freely available and‘-searchable, in full text Advantages of the Policy Institutions with fewer resources, ‘institutions in other countries, and researchers and patients worldwide benefit 10 Advantages of the Policy Open Access articles are read more often and are more highly cited ‘-than articles in subscription-based journals 11 How To Deposit • Manual deposit into SBU Academic Commons is available for all faculty ‘- • Submit a link to open access articles or manuscripts • Email accepted manuscripts to your liaison librarian or openaccess@stonybrook.edu 12 Publishers Publishers have been informed about the ‘policy, including: Elsevier, Springer, Karger, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, SAGE 13 Responding to Publishers authors may • request a waiver of their grant of license to the university on a per article basis ‘- • delay public access to an article via an embargo • Request an addendum letter for further making a publisher aware of the SBU Open Access Policy http://library.stonybrook.edu/openaccess/waiver-embargo/ 14 Open Access @ SBU Visit the website for: • the full text of the policy • answers to Frequently Asked Questions ‘- • campus contacts/resources • obtaining a waiver And more! 15 Sharing Policies Use SHERPA/ RoMEO to discover a publisher or journal’s sharing policies: • Duke University Press • Johns Hopkins University Press GREEN OPEN ACCESS You don’t have to pay an expensive Article Processing ‘Charge (APC) to share your accepted manuscript • Modern Language Quarterly • New Literary History • Journal of Post-Colonial Writing 16 Thank you! Questions? ‘- 17