Open Access Week 2013

Why open access?

• wider visibility for scholarship

• more equitable access to research

• improve scholarly communication

• advance research

• more reasons…

Open Access in Action…

• arXiv (launched in 1991)
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1995)
• AgEcon Search (1997)
• Public Library of Science – PLoS (2000)
• BMC Cell Biology (2000)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (2002)
• GeoData@Tufts (2011)

See open.tufts.edu for more Tufts examples!

How can I promote open access?

• publish in an OA journal

• make your work available in the Tufts Digital Library

• submit your course to Tufts OpenCourseWare

• get involved with editorial boards of OA journals

• more ideas…