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Passed! Open Access Scholarship Policy

May 19, 2021

The University of Oregon Faculty Senate passed the Open Access Scholarship Policy as developed by the Senate Sub-Committee on Open Access on May 19, 2021.

View Policy at UO Senate

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this a mandate? Why are you using the word "shall"?

No, this is not a mandate. The word “shall” was chosen to strongly encourage participation and in the sense of the word “should.”

Does deposit in Academia.edu and ResearchGate comply with the policy?

Not exactly! Academia.edu and ResearchGate don’t preserve your research in the same way that Scholars’ Bank or disciplinary repositories do. As academic scholarly networks, they’re focused on recruiting new members rather than reaching the largest possible audience. That’s great for finding new collaborators, but not for hooking into open scholarly infrastructure.

What about my co-authors? How does that work?

While co-authors have equal intellectual rights to a paper (even if your contributions aren’t equal!), it’s always good to talk about your open access plans when you’re selecting a venue for publication.

One or more of your collaborators may have an open access mandate from their institution or grantor that they must adhere to, so you can work together to make sure they have a version they can submit.

If your collaborators don’t have an open access policy and you don’t want to comply with the UO policy, you don’t need to seek an exemption. This is not a mandate.

Is there help for me? I have a lot to deposit / I don't know what to deposit / I'm lost.

Yes! The UO Libraries are here to help. Contact your subject librarian or scholars@uoregon.edu for help uploading, copyright, seeking permissions, or any questions you may have.

Can I give you things that aren't articles? Do I have to?

Scholars’ Bank is format agnostic and we welcome the deposit of any work created in association with your faculty appointment. Datasets will be directed to Scholars’ Bank Data for improved metadata and storage for datasets and large files. The Open Scholarship Policy is not a mandate and neither articles nor other materials are required to be deposited.

Does SciHub come into this at all? What about Elsevier?

SciHub emerged in response to a closed information ecosystem characterized by poor user experience and unaffordable access to important, researcher-created work.

Elsevier is one of several major scholarly publishing congolomerates who have used their market share to build huge profit margins with “big deals” and ever-increasing subscription rates. 

Our Open Access Policy intends to make the collective output of the University of Oregon free and openly available using the legal means of publisher policy and author rights. By working within open scholarly infrastructure, we can be sure our work will go further than the walled garden of a subscription database.

Does deposit in ArXiv / SSRN / the preprint server I use comply with the policy?

Absolutely! Our primary goal with this policy was to increase the amount of University of Oregon scholarship that is available openly. If you’re already depositing your work in a disciplinary repository or preprint server, you’re already there!

If you’d like to help us with long-term preservation of UO scholarship (and further increase your reach), you can give us the DOI of your preprint through the same deposit form we use for everything else.

What are preprint / disciplinary repositories? What's the best one for my area?

Disciplinary repositories or preprint servers are run by a variety of groups including scholarly societies, libraries, universities, scholarly publishers, nonprofit scholarly communication organizations, and other interested parties to provide a central hub for researchers in that discipline to share their work. Scholars make their work available in preprint servers for a variety of reasons, including (but certainly not limited) to stake their claim on an important finding so as not to get scooped during the editing and review process, to share work with communities who may not have access to expensive literature, and to get feedback at early stages of the review process. 

The Open Access Directory at Simmons University maintains an extensive list of Disciplinary Repositories. The University of Oregon Libraries supports a number of open access projects, including ArXiv and PsyArXiv

UO Libraries Open Access Article Processing Charge Award Fund

As more high-quality journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences turn to an article-fee based Open Access publishing model, researchers are encountering a new financial barrier to publishing: the Article Processing Charge. Yet, Open Access publishing provides much greater access to research in a way that subscription-fee based publishing cannot, and the UO Libraries is pursuing many ways to support high quality Open Access publishing efforts, including this Article Processing Charge Award.

Publishing Services for Open Access Journals & Books

Are you looking to make an peer-reviewed open access journal, a digital non-peer reviewed publication, or make digital books? Want to make an openly licensed textbook so anyone can use it for free? Want your journals and books to have persistent identifiers and be preserved using the same system as major publishers?

Data Management & Reproducibility

Data Services at UO Libraries is available to help you manage your data from creation or acquisition to sharing and publication. They can help with data management plans, organizing data in Excel, R, or SQL, finding data on a specific topic. They can consult with you or your research team, and present in-depth training or short tutorials on tools and resources.

University Library Committee
Senate Sub-Committee on Open Access

 

Under the auspices of the University Library Committee, the Senate Sub-Committee on Open Access is charged by the Provost and the University Senate to develop an Open Access policy for consideration by stakeholders across the university community.

 

Committee Members

Meet Our Members

David Condon
David Condon

Committee Chair

Assistant Professor, Psychology

Andrew Kern
Andrew Kern

Associate Professor, Biology

Mike Peixoto
Mike Peixoto

Undergraduate Coordinator, Economics and Sociology

Margaret Sereno
Margaret Sereno

Associate Professor, Psychology

Beth Harn
Beth Harn

Associate Professor, Special Education

Franny Gaede
Franny Gaede

Committee Web Manager

Head, Digital Scholarship Services

Mark Watson
Mark Watson

Committee Project Manager

Interim Dean of Libraries

Miriam Rigby
Miriam Rigby

Co-Chair, Open Access Advisory Group

Associate Librarian, Social Sciences

Sponsors

Patrick Phillips

Senior Vice-President and Provost

Elliot Berkman

UO Senate President

Spike Gildea

UO Senate President-Elect

Committee Deliverables

  • An overview of the current landscape of open access trends and practices in the area of scholarly communication and publishing
  • An analysis of the role that open access plays in research and the dissemination of scholarly resources and works at the UO
  • Overview of options for renegotiating the library’s contract with Elsevier
  • Recommended next steps to further the discussion and adoption of open access at the University of Oregon
  • Create opportunities for campus-wide discussion that involve stakeholders from across the academic disciplines
  • Facilitate broad awareness of its work among all campus stakeholders.

Next Meeting

May 25, 2021

Zoom Video Conference, 11 am – 12 pm PDT

Minutes

Open Access White Paper

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Minutes: April 6, 2020

Review of SSOA Progress to Date The White Paper was completed at the end of Winter Term (March 2020) Revisions are still being incorporated and more input is welcome The current draft of the White Paper has been posted on the SSOA website as of today. New versions...

Minutes: February 18, 2020

Review of our Charge and Prior Work 2 prior meetings Introductory meeting 12/16/2019 Last meeting (1/21/2020) was brief Formalized plan to prioritize & complete the White Paper SSOA Working Group just formed Preliminary Outline for White Paper shared Charge Under...

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