Open Access at the University of Kansas

Program 2A focused on campus mandate and policy issues, specifically the roles that libraries play in advocating for and supporting campus mandates and policies. Case studies discussing how libraries and academic institutions have prepared their communities to consider policy changes and how policy changes have transformed behaviors on these campuses were presented. An overview of key considerations when entering into this type of discussion were also addressed

How to Develop a Faculty Open Access Policy as a Multi-stakeholder, Multi-year Cooperative Project

The frames by which we approach any societal problem matter. We can examine the scholarly communication system and the systems deeply intertwined within it through many possible lenses, including the lens of cooperation or competition. In this three-hour workshop participants will examine briefly the history of the development of faculty open access policies in the US, and then in more depth the purpose, benefits, and challenges of campus open access policies and review the politics and possible processes for mapping out and developing a path toward the creation of a faculty open access policy. Attendees will together consider the larger national and international contexts in which faculty open access policies exist, and the challenges and benefits of seeing the effort holistically as a cooperative project, nestled within other cooperative or competitive projects

The Scholarly Communication Problem: Why Open Access is Necessary – A Transatlantic Perspective –

This article was written to raise awareness among researchers in the Open Access movement and share KU’s experience as a leader in Open Access policy. First published in September 2010 in the national daily paper Delo (Ljubljana, Slovenia) [http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6646], the piece has appeared in translation in newspapers in Croatia, Romania, Serbia, and Ukraine, among others

The Scholarly Communication Problem: Why Open Access is Necessary

The article aims to raise awareness of the Open Access movement and gives examples from the experience of the University of Kansas in fostering and advancing free and permanent public access to publicly funded scholarly communication

How to Be ‘Open’: Practical Steps to Sharing Your Research

The video of this presentation is available through the "Other Version" link in this record. The handout and presentation are available below

Coffee and Conversations: How to do OA (Open Access) at KU

This is a ‘how to’ session on making your published scholarship publicly available, geared to those faculty who are new to KU or new to the idea of open access and KU faculty’s open access policy. Presenters: Ada Emmett, Scholarly Communications program head and Marianne Reed, Digital Information Specialist

Copyright 101 for Authors: Publication Agreements and Open Sharing

The video of this presentation is available through the "Other Version" link in this record. The handout and presentation are available below

Publication Agreements: Going Beyond the Boilerplate for Copyright and Future Access

At this session, attendees learned more about publication agreements, copyright, and publicly accessible scholarship. Presenters: Townsend Peterson, Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Rachel Rolf, attorney with the KU General Counsel’s office