[Rdap] Open Access Questions

[Fitzgerald, Jennifer]

Hello All:

Our small research library is contemplating usage of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) addendum to allow authors to maintain key rights to publications.  We would like to eventually encourage (or think we would) our researchers to utilize this document when submitting to journals in the hopes that accepted publications could be saved in our institution's repository.

If your institution has had experience with this addendum, what has that experience been like? I'm interested in the pros and cons.

Are you putting the documents in your repository where anyone can access them or are you making them available only internally?

How did you get buy-in from your researchers to use the addendum?  Our concern is that researchers will assume that the publisher's rejection of the addendum will translate into rejection of their manuscript.  Our understanding is that this shouldn't be the case; the addendum may get rejected, but not necessarily the publication.

Anyone unfamiliar with SPARC:  http://www.sparc.arl.org/sites/default/files/Access-Reuse_Addendum.pdf

Thanks for you time.

Jennifer Fitzgerald
Data Curator, Library
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