Smathers Libraries in Support of UF Research and

Smathers Libraries in Support of UF Research and Scholarship: Open Access and The IR@UF Presentation to the Latin American Studies Colloquium, March 17, 2011 1

Main Points • Role of Smathers Libraries in Scholarly • • Communication Open-access in brief National and international trends and mandates Local Initiatives: UFOAP and the IR@UF Questions/Discussion 2

UF Libraries The George A. Smathers Libraries have two main components: • Health Science Center Libraries (HSCL) – funded through the academic & research units of the Health Sciences Center • University Libraries (UL) – funded through the other academic & research units, excluding the College of Law* * The Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center is not part of the George A. Smathers Libraries. 3

Facilities • Nearly 475, 000 sq. ft. of public space & seating for almost 4, 500 • 56 group study rooms and 6 instruction labs • Over 41, 000 sq, ft. of shelving • Over 650 public hours/week and remote online service 24/7 Library Technology • 541 public workstations • 50 loaner laptops • 9 media-equipped study and instruction rooms 4

The Value and Role of the Smathers Libraries • Supporting the University’s mission across all disciplines • Supporting student learning, achievement, and university experience • Supporting faculty teaching, research, and scholarly communications • Providing Subject Specialists for personal assistance 5

Scholarly Communications • Sharing research, knowledge, and creative productivity • Publishing • Issues: author’s rights, economics of scholarly resources, new models--open access, institutional repositories, rights and access, preservation of intellectual assets 6

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 7

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 8

Why OA is so Important to Students To break down barriers: • The Right to Research Coalition: http: //righttoresearch. org/ – Access to Research is a Student Right • Learning and inquiry are impeded when scholars lack access • Provides access to global research • OA levels the educational playing field 9

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. 10

OA Momentum • 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 Open. Aire – Dept of Labor : Open Educational Resources 11

OA Momentum • OA articles: 120, 000 in 2009 • OA journals in the DOAJ: 6, 244! – 2009: – 2010: 4, 535 (2/day) 5, 936 (4/day) • Scholars perceptions: benefits to self and community • OA Week 2010: 94 countries 12

Strategies Toward Open Access @ UF • Promotion of the UF institutional repository: the IR@UF: Sharing. Scholarship. Online. www. uflib. ufl. edu/ufir • Establishment of an OA publishing fund: UFOAP • Creation of a faculty-driven university-wide OA policy 13

The IR@UF-1½ Million! • 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 15

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 16

Why UF Supports The IR@UF? A portal to UF research and creativity: • Institutional memory • Public advancement: a showcase of scholarly output • Institutional advancement 17

The UF Open Access Publishing Fund supports making UF research findings immediately, freely and globally available through Open Access publishing. 18

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 19

UF Recipients 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 20

Copyright Resources • To retain your rights: – “Author Rights: Using the SPARC Author Addendum to secure your rights” http: //www. arl. org/sparc/author/addendum. shtml • To retain your rights and allow others to use it to various degree specified by you: – Science Commons Background Briefing http: //www. sciencecommons. org/projects/publishing/background-briefing – Science Commons Author’s Addendum FAQ http: //www. sciencecommons. org/resources/faq/authorsaddendum • SHERPA Ro. MEO: Publisher copyright and selfarchiving policies http: //www. sherpa. ac. uk/romeo/ • University of Minnesota Author’s Addendum http: //www. lib. umn. edu/scholcom/CICAuthors. Rights. pdf 21

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/ 22

Questions and Discussion 23