Open Access to Scholarly Research : An Emerging Success Story in Emancipatory Communication

Morrison, Heather Open Access to Scholarly Research : An Emerging Success Story in Emancipatory Communication., 2007 . In Union of Democratic Communications 2007 : "Enclosure, Emancipatory Communications, and the Global City", Vancouver, British-Columbia (Canada), 25-27 October 2007. (Unpublished) [Presentation]

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Open access is defined, and explored in the context of enclosure and emancipatory communication. One attempt at enclosure, in the form of heavy lobbying by very wealthy companies in the publishing industry against research funders' open access mandates, has been exposed. A PR message is traced from the recommendations of PR pitbull Eric Dezenhall to a failed anti-OA coalition attempt called PRISM to the White House. In spite of this intense lobbying, open access is succeeding. Resources are growing dramatically; the Directory of Open Access Journals, a list of fully open access, peer-reviewed journals, lists more than 2,800 journals, more than 10% of the world's peer-reviewed journals, and is adding titles at a rate of more than one per calendar day. There are more than 16 million items in open access archives, retrievable through portals such as Scientific Commons or OAIster. Despite heavy lobbying, the US Senate recently voted heavily in favor of language to change the National Institutes of Health Public Access policy from an ineffective request to a requirement. There are now 40 research funding agencies' open access mandates either in place or under discussion.

Item type:	Presentation
Keywords:	open access, emancipatory communication
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information > BC. Information in society. B. Information use and sociology of information > BF. Information policy B. Information use and sociology of information > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion.
Depositing user:	Heather G Morrison
Date deposited:	31 Oct 2007
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:09
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/10605

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