ASIS&T Meeting

10/20/2009

• Andrea
• Su
• Nancy
• Deanna
• Melissa
• Luke
• Sarah
• Louisa
• Amy

Open Access

Peer reviewed, free of cost, online access to scholarly literature.

* Push back from scholarly community?

o Journals are expensive.

o Authors don?t get paid.

o 30% of profit goes to publisher.

o Some instiutions like Harvard are changing their standards in the academic community; subscription-based publication isn’t

as important as it used to be for gaining tenure; however many institutions are reluctant to change.

* Open Access Repositories

o Harvard mandate requires that faculty research is deposited into university repository (along with whichever proprietarypublication they are published in). Harvard Open Access Repository

o Simmons has an institutional repository, but it is not mandatory for faculty to use. Simmons Open Access Repository

* Research funded by NIH (government funded, paid for with tax dollars) Now available to the public for free through an OA repository.

* Open Access Journals – multiple models, depending on what publisher it is:

1) give access to individual users, but charge libraries

2) charge authors to be published.

* First Monday – OA Journal in Library & Information Science. Peer-reviewed and been around since 1995.

* Interview with Peter Suber on Open Access

Other Comments

New eBook Reader from Barnes and Noble just came out – you can lend books for 14 days to a friend. The Nook

Speaker/Fall Event

We ran out of time and weren’t able to discuss our fall event plans or next meeting. Luke will be sending out an e-mail to remind people to voice their opinions on the ideas that have already been suggested through Basecamp.