An interesting and timely topic! People interested in the OA policy at UC may enjoy the site that was recently created to provide information on how the UC OA policy is being implemented:
http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/openaccesspolicy/ Erik On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Quinn Dombrowski <[email protected]>wrote: > The RIT reading group will be meeting next Thursday (8/15) at noon in 200C > Warren to discuss open access scholarly publishing, including the recent > open access policy adopted by the University of California's Academic > Senate, open access initiatives on campus, and reactions to the American > Historical Association's support of embargos on dissertations in open > access repositories. > > For those unfamiliar with open access, this Wikipedia article provides a > basic overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access > > We will be discussing the following readings: > > 1) Chronicle article on UC Academic Senate announcement: > http://chronicle.com/article/Open-Access-Gains-Major/140851/ > > 2) Open access briefing paper prepared for internal use by IST-RIT (PDF > attached) > > 3) American Historical Association announcement: > http://blog.historians.org/2013/07/american-historical-association-statement-on-policies-regarding-the-embargoing-of-completed-history-phd-dissertations/ > and two blog responses: > A) > http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2013/07/24/etds-publishing-policy-based-on-fear/ > B) > http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2013/08/07/an-embargo-on-dissertations-will-not-solve-the-bigger-problem/ > > If you have any questions, please contact Quinn ([email protected]). > -- Erik Mitchell Associate University Librarian Director of Digital Initiatives and Collaborative Services University of California, Berkeley [email protected] http://erikmitchell.info
