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‘- The Stony Brook University Open Access Policy: tools to support faculty... ‘- SBU University Senate adopted the Open Access Policy on February 6, 2017.. Faculty retain copyright

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The Stony Brook University

Open Access Policy:

tools to support faculty

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Hello & Welcome!

Darren Chase Head of the Center for Scholarly Communication

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SBU University Senate

adopted the Open Access Policy on

February 6, 2017

more information at library.stonybrook.edu/openaccess

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How the Policy Works

1

Faculty retain copyright to their work and

issue to university a non-exclusive license to

exercise rights under copyright, including

distribution and display

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How the Policy Works

2

Faculty deposit articles into an open

access repository or publish them in an

open access journal and provide a link

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How the Policy Works

3

Faculty may opt out of the policy for any

article for any reason

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Covered:

• Faculty

• “Scholarly articles,” including materials

published in journals, conference

proceedings, etc

• Articles with a publication agreement

signed after February 6, 2017

Not covered:

• Students

• Post-docs and researchers

• Books

• Popular, non-scholarly articles

• Fiction and poetry

• Lecture notes

• Articles published before the policy was passed

Scope of the Policy

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The SBU Open Access Policy Leverages Green Open Access

Authors retain copyright

Publish in the journals

of their choice

Share accepted manuscripts

in an OA repository

Avoid APC fees

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Advantages of the Policy

The corpus of SBU faculty works will be

made freely available and searchable, in

full text

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Advantages of the Policy

Institutions with fewer resources,

institutions in other countries, and

researchers and patients worldwide

benefit

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Advantages of the Policy

Open Access articles are read more often

and are more highly cited than articles in

subscription-based journals

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How To Deposit

• Manual deposit into SBU Academic

Commons is available for all faculty

• Submit a link to open access articles or

manuscripts

• Email accepted manuscripts to your liaison

librarian or openaccess@stonybrook.edu

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Publishers

Publishers have been informed about the

policy, including: Elsevier, Springer,

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Responding to

Publishers

authors may

• request a waiver of their grant

of license to the university on

a per article basis

• delay public access to an

article via an embargo

• Request an addendum letter

for further making a publisher

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Visit the website for:

• the full text of the policy

• answers to

Frequently Asked Questions

• campus contacts/resources

• obtaining a waiver

And more!

Open Access @ SBU

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Sharing Policies

discover a publisher or journal’s

sharing policies:

Press

GREEN OPEN ACCESS

You don’t have to pay an expensive Article Processing Charge (APC) to share your accepted manuscript

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Thank you!

Questions?