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- “Understanding Open Access: When, Why, and How to Make Your Work Openly Accessible,” by Lexi Rubow, Rachael Shen, and Brianna Schofield at the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic. CC BY 4.0.
- This is an in-depth overview of Open Access and how to make your own work openly accessible: https://authorsalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/Documents/Guides/Authors%20Alliance%20-%20Understanding%20Open%20Access.pdf.
More Information about Open Access and OER Advocacy
- ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies, by the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton.
- This is a searchable international registry of existing Open Access policies, including their terms and details: http://roarmap.eprints.org/981/.
- “OER and Advocacy: What Can Librarians Do?” by the University of Toronto Libraries.
- This contains resources and information on how librarians can support OER adoption, and it also provides some faculty perspectives on OER: https://guides.library.utoronto.ca/c.php?g=448614&p=3199145.
- “Scholarly Communication Toolkit: Scholarly Communication Overview,” by the Association of College & Research Libraries.
- This is a toolkit to help librarians integrate a scholarly communication perspective into library operations and programs, as well as prepare presentations on scholarly communication issues for administrators, faculty, staff, students, and other librarians: http://acrl.libguides.com/scholcomm/toolkit/.
More Information about Emerging Models of Open Access Publishing
- “Open in Order to… Accelerate Research and Scientific Discoveries,” by Timothy Vollmer. CC BY 4.0.
- This is an article about the value of Open Access based on a recap of a Creative Commons Slack chat about the importance of preprints for Open Access publishing: https://creativecommons.org/2017/10/25/open-order-accelerate-research-scientific-discoveries/.
