Open Access @ the University

of Florida: The IR@UF and the UF

Open Access Publishing Fund

Presentation to the Infrastructure

Council, December 10, 2010

Main Points

• Open-access in brief

• National and international trends

and mandates at peer institutions

• Local Initiatives

• Questions/Discussion

Open Access Defined

• Open-access (OA) literature is

–free of charge to readers

–free of most copyright and licensing

restrictions

–digital and online • Peter Suber, Focusing on open access

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

Why OA is so Important to

Researchers

Available online:

• Faster + timely visibility + increased

findability wider readership + higher

citation rates

• Barriers to access negatively impact

research

• Overall IMPACT

The Public’s Need for OA

• Concept of “public access”: taxpayers, federal

agencies, and universities pay twice for funded

research

• Increases the public’s ROI in research

• Open access reduces barriers and can foster

collaboration and research advances.

National and Global

Mandates

• 2008 NIH mandate

• 2009 Federal Research Public Access Act

(FRPAA)

• UNESCO: for the benefit of global

knowledge flow, innovation and socio-

economic development

• EU’s OpenAire

Strategies Toward

Open Access @ UF

• Promotion of the UF institutional

repository: the IR@UF:

www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufir

• Establishment of an OA publishing

fund: UFOAP

• Creation of a faculty-driven university-

wide OA policy

•Journal articles

• Conference papers and proceedings

• Monographs and monograph series

• Technical reports

• Theses and dissertations

• White papers

• UF Journals and Other Publications

• Grant proposals

• University archives materials

The IR@UF-1½ Million!

Why Scholars Participate

in the IR@UF?

•A faculty resource

•To share research through: •A permanent archive with stable links

• An OA repository compliant with

digital library standards

Why UF Supports the

IR@UF?

A PORTAL TO UF RESEARCH &

CREATIVITY

•Institutional memory

• Public advancement: a showcase

• Institutional advancement

The UF Open Access

Publishing Fund

supports making UF research findings

immediately, freely and globally available

through Open Access publishing.

Eligible Authors

• UF faculty, staff and student

authors and co-authors, including

post-doctoral researchers

Eligible Articles

• Peer-reviewed research articles in OA

and hybrid journals

• Listed in the Directory of Open Access

Journals: www.doaj.org

Dr. Graciela Lorca, Assistant Professor,

Dept. of Microbiology and Cell Science

Daniel Spade, Student in Physiological

Sciences

Max Teplitski, Associate Professor, Soil and

Water Science

UF Recipients

For more information, contact:

Judy Russell

Dean of University Libraries

jcrussell@ufl.edu 273-2505

Isabel Silver

Director, Academic and Scholarly Outreach

isilver@ufl.edu 273-2524

Visit our website: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/

Questions

and

Discussion