Open Access

Open Access logo, originally designed by Public Library of Science

Open Access at UBC

This is really just a place to park in the interim.

Supporters

Organizational Signatories on Letter of Support:

• UBC UAEM
• UBC AMS
• Science Undergraduate Society
• Arts Undergraduate Society
• ...

Informal Support:

• UBC Library
• UBC IT (resources)

Initiatives

• cIRcle
• Health Sciences Online

Local Champions

• John Willinsky
• Pre-tenure:
• Tenured:
• Arts:
• Science:
• Applied Science:
• Commerce:
• Medicine:
• Law:

Local Coverage

• Health Sciences Online in UBC Reports
• Erica Frank in Tapestry
• cIRcle in UBC Reports
• Making UBC Olympics Studies Free

Related

• Open Education
• Free/Libre Open-Source Software
• Open Courseware
• Open Data

What UBC Can Do

• Have UBC Press adopt Open Licensing
• Change the default: have faculty (sess/ten-track/ten) adopt Green OA institutionally
• Change the culture: have faculty (sess/ten-track/ten) adopt Green OA personally
• Have institutional media producers adopt open licensing (The Ubyssey, UBC Reports, Student Development, etc.)
• Advocate to the province/national funding agencies to adopt OA policies
• Create it's own repository

Open Access Elsewhere

Orientation

• Peter Suber on The Types of OA, and Milestones
• Lawrence Lessig on Legal Scholarship Ownership
• Kenneth Crews on Protecting One's Scholarship
• Peter Suber on What You Can Do to Promote OA

Links

• Thirty other institutions, and their OA policies.