Publications and Research
Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
2013
Abstract
Open access (OA) to scholarly literature recently hit a major milestone: Half of all research articles published become open access, either immediately or after an embargo period. Are the articles you read among them? What about the articles you write? Are the journals to which you submit open-access friendly? What about the journals for which you peer review? Are there any reasons why the public should not have access to the results of taxpayer-funded research?
This presentation explains the motivation for OA, describes the details of OA, and differentiates between publishing in open access journals (“gold” OA) and self-archiving works in OA repositories (“green” OA). It also dispels persistent myths about OA and examines some of the challenges to OA.
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This slideshow accompanied an Open Access Week 2013 presentation at the Graduate Center, CUNY. It is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution license.