About the Webinar
Open Access (OA) has become a widely accepted and rapidly growing method of publishing scholarly content. As OA distribution gains traction, a high priority for the community is establishing and building the infrastructure needed to efficiently manage this content. This infrastructure includes such elements as OA publication charge management by third parties, fee structures and payments, visual and machine-readable identification of OA availability and reuse rights, and discovery layer functions. In 2013, NISO launched a project on Open Access Metadata to develop recommendations for the availability and reuse rights issues, but that addresses only a piece of the total infrastructure issue.
In the first part of NISO’s two-part series, the focus is on Knowing What is Open. When content is published by a strictly Open Access publisher or in a completely open access online journal, knowing what is freely available to read by the user can be fairly obvious. This is less clear for hybrid titles, where open access is set at an article-by-article level. Even when a journal is fully open access, mechanisms are necessary for conveying the OA status of articles and their reuse rights to other systems, such as discovery platforms. This webinar will discuss just what it means to say content is "open access," what the various flavors of OA are, and how people and other systems can determine how open something is and both discover and access such content. Issues around license rights, the scale of openness, and the application of this data in discovery contexts will also be covered.
Event Sessions
Introduction
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The Lifecycle of Open Access Content
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What happens when open access content leaves a publisher's platform and moves into the larger ecosystem? There is a growing ocean of content and search tools emerging to help users identify and get access to the quality content they need. It becomes more and more important to ensure that publishers and creators of institutional repositories consider not only how to describe their own open access content, but also how to make it interoperable with other platforms, types of content and open access sources. SIPX - a higher ed course materials platform that connects open access content, licensed content and other publisher content with online learning systems - shares their actual users' requests and perspectives while discussing the emerging challenges and opportunities in communicating open access content accessibility to end-users.
How Open is Open Access?
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Open Access can be confusing. This presentation will cover the commonly asked questions and myths of Open Access, how to use the “How Open Is It?” guide as a standardized way to understand the degree of openness, real-word examples of Open Access benefits, and, lastly, how Open Access is connected to the future of publishing.
Untangling Open Access Issues in Scholarly Communication
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From public policy (OSTP, RCUK, Horizon 2020) to publishing (PLOS ONE, predatory OA) to institutions (the University of California OA policy), open access continues to emerge as a hot button issue within scholarly communication. But Open Access means many things to many people. This presentation will untangle the conflation and confusion among various flavors of openness—including open access, public access, open data, and open science. It will also discuss one of the emerging tools from the forthcoming NISO Open Access Metadata & Indicators Recommended Practice, that provides a mechanism for identifying the "openness" of content and defining associated rights or restrictions.
Additional Information
- Registration closes at 12:00 p.m. (ET) on March 5, 2014. Cancellations made by February 26, 2013 will receive a refund, less a $25 cancellation. After that date, there are no refunds.
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