Wait, You Don’t Have an Open Access Policy?: Passing an OA Policy in 2021

Conference Year
Online Northwest 2022
Session
3
Type
Breakout Session
Presenters
  • Miriam Rigby, University of Oregon
  • Franny Gaede, University of Oregon
  • Catherine Flynn-Purvis, University of Oregon
  • David Condon, University of Oregon
Abstract

Twenty years after passing a resolution supporting open access, the University of Oregon Faculty Senate passed their first comprehensive Open Scholarship Policy. Library personnel and faculty champions collaborated in this enormous effort over two years. This demanded the recognition of new models of scholarship and the development of new workflows leveraging the institutional repository and other tools. Given faculty hesitancy and uncertainty over mandates and enforcement, significant coalition-building was difficult in the time of COVID-19, but necessary to achieve consensus. We will share our strategies for success and suggestions for how they may be replicated.

Learning Outcomes
  1. Attendees will be able to identify stakeholders and advocates at their institutions
  2. Attendees will be able to articulate common concerns of faculty and other campus partners
  3. Attendees will be able to deconstruct misunderstandings of the term “open access” to advocate at their institutions
  4. Attendees will be able to adapt a roadmap for their own OA policy success
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