Are you already an Open Access Publisher/Advocate/Superstar?
We’re hoping to create a list of CUNY folks who are sharing their work openly. Please help us to populate the Open Access Publishing @ CUNY wiki page with data about work that you have published using open licenses!
Do you want to become an Open Access Publisher/Advocate/Superstar?
There are two primary ways faculty can make their articles open access:
- OA journals: OA journals perform peer review and then make the approved contents freely available to the world.
- OA repositories: Authors can post their articles in institutional and/or disciplinary repositories. (Many non-OA journals permit authors to archive their articles in repositories.)
What can faculty do to promote open access?
- Submit your research articles to OA journals, when there are appropriate OA journals in your field.
- Deposit your preprints and/or postprints in an OA repository.
- When asked to referee a paper or serve on the editorial board for an OA journal, accept the invitation.
- If you are an editor of a non-OA journal, start an in-house discussion about converting to OA, experimenting with OA, or letting authors retain copyright.
- Work with your professional societies to make sure they understand OA.
- Educate the next generation of scientists and scholars about OA.
- Learn more about what faculty can do at http://tinyurl.com/WhatFacCanDo
- Learn what everyone can do at http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/do.htm
