[Neasis-l] NEASIST picnic 7/13, and more!

[Kate Nyhan]

Hello NEASIST members -- read on for three updates on summer programming.

*Don't miss it!* Join us in Cambridge on July 13th for a picnic with the
travel award winners, dinner, and lawn sports, details and RSVPs here
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/picnic-party-with-neasist-tickets-17594410355>
.

*Upcoming opportunity: Website Working Group! *This is a short-term
commitment -- two in-person meetings this summer -- but a big goal:
brainstorming about growing and improving our chapter's web presence. You
can find out more from Jennifer Prentice
<jennifer.prentice at childrens.harvard.edu> and Kate Nyhan
<nyhan at post.harvard.edu>, and you can chat with us at the picnic
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/picnic-party-with-neasist-tickets-17594410355> on
July 13. Or, share your availability here
<http://doodle.com/yq3r9dpzz9xzk46a>. We will be glad to get your input!

*Catch up on our last meetup! *Our June meetup featured open access expert
Amanda Page of Harvard's Berkman Center for the Internet and Public Policy.
Amanda led a wide-ranging discussion of open access at academic libraries
of all kinds, thanks to input from librarians and activists from across New
England and beyond. This was our first Skype-accessible meetup, but it
won't be our last. Amanda has kindly shared her notes, along with a
bibliography for those who want to get up to speed on open access, which
you can find below. Thank you, Amanda!

The underpinnings of OA have been in the air for many years. Like the
> arrival of the internet, there is a date that it can be attributed
> (2002-2003), but people around the globe where talking about further access
> to literature and information for years beforehand. This is important to
> remember because no event, not even today, happens over night. On the other
> hand, much has happened in the last 15 years. Two ideas -- Open Access and
> Open Source -- have flowered into a movement of all sorts of Open ideas.
> There is a great deal more access to literature and information today than
> there was 10 years ago. That being said, there is still room to move and
> grow both in the domestic and global space.
> Reasons why OA has flowered are:
>
Hard work and effort of many people across the globe

Various workflows concentrating on OA, including but not limited to
> publishing, library systems, grants, funders (governmental and private),
> repositories, and green and gold OA.



> There was also discussion of the Harvard model and a general overview.
> Regarding the questions, we discussed students. There are certainly
> demographics of people who know more and who know less about OA and other
> Open initiatives. Students are more likely not to know, while we are at a
> time when faculty are more likely to know something about OA. This is not
> thoroughly true, but advocacy efforts are often focused on faculty,
> librarians, and researchers over students when there are priorities to be
> made. As well, there are other reasons for this, but OA is evolved enough,
> in my opinion, that the conversation can and should grow into the student
> and public space as well.
>


> We also discussed funders and funding agencies and compliance. In terms of
> compliance and follow through, it frequently depends on the strength of the
> policy, whether it is a recommendation or mandate, and if researchers with
> receive a discontinuation of funds if they do not comply with the policy
> and make their publications (and sometime data) available as public or open
> access through various national and/or institutional repositories. As
> well, compliance rates go up when there are staff within the university-
> often scholarly communications librarians or staff within the Office of
> Sponsored Programs departments- that look out for compliance and assist
> researchers to ensure that institutional compliance is fulfilled. With this
> extra layer of support, compliance rates go up. As well, it is a great way
> to add a beneficial service to library patrons.
>
> References for those interested:
> Good Practices Guide to open-access Policies.
> http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Good_practices_for_university_open
> access_policies. Accessed on June 16, 2015.
> Harvard Open Access Project.
>     http <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Main_Page>
> ://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Main_Page
> <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Main_Page>. Accessed on June 16, 2015.
> Harvard DASH Repository. http://dash.harvard.edu/. Accessed on June 16,
> 2015.
> Harvard OSC Open Access Policies.
>             https://osc.hul.harvard.edu/policies. Accessed on June 16,
> 2015.
> Open Access Directory (OAD) Timeline.
>             http <http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Timeline>
> ://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Timeline
> <http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Timeline>. Accessed on June 16, 2015.
> Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. http://oaspa.org/
> <http://oaspa.org/>.
> Accessed on June 16, 2015.
> Open Knowledge Project, Open Data Handbook.
>             Accessed June 11, 2015.
> Suber, Peter. Open Access. (2012).
> Sutton, Suber, Page. Society Open Access Research. 3rd editon.
>  *bit.ly/oaj- <http://bit.ly/oaj-society>society
> <http://bit.ly/oaj-society>. *Accessed on June 18, 2015.
> And if you don't already, follow the OATP for OA news:
> http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/OATP_feeds
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