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October 24, 2008
Coffee Break: Open Access
The conversation at this term's first Forum coffee break focused on what the Library is doing to support faculty publishing in Open Access journals. Some of these journals require faculty to pay a publication fee of as much as $3,000. It was asked what the Library can do to help them. Societies behind the journals sometimes waive or reduce these fees if there is an institutional membership. Should the Library pay for this membership? Or should research grants pay for these publication fees? The talk then turned to University researchers interested in conducting natural language processing research with electronic resources the Library provides. It's not clear if the licenses for the resources we provide, including Open Access titles, prohibit the type of data mining they want to conduct or if they are allowed under Fair Use. We also talked about the role of publishers in academia and the difference (if any) between non-profit and for-profit publishers. I'm sure we'll cover these topics again at another talk.
Posted by amuro at October 24, 2008 08:26 PM