Mel Chua ENE 590, Spring 2012 End of semester report Problem addressed: How does one implement an open access institutional repository at a small, young engineering college? Deliverable 1: A database of Olin publications mapped to publishing agreements and Sherpa/RoMEO publisher codings and chunked into levels of copyright & archiving rights. Status: After talking with Donna Ferullo (Purdue's copyright librarian), we learned that Sherpa/RoMEO publisher codings were not actually the way to go, since it's the individual legal contract signed for a particular paper that matters, not the blanket policy template the publisher uses (in other words, it's very possible for individual documents from the same publisher to have different copyright agreements). This deliverable was abandoned and work was turned to other things. See the blog posts listed under "additional deliverables" instead. Deliverable 2: The writing and implementation of an Olin Open-Access policy based on SPARC resources. Status: The policy was written and presented to Olin faculty at the March 2012 faculty meeting; it is currently going through Olin's legal counsel and we expect approval and implementation to begin in Fall 2012. See the policy draft, which is part of the faculty meeting handout, attached as document 01 in this collection. Deliverable 3: An analysis of Olin faculty publications with their level of openness represented across publishers and content work. Status: Abandoned for reasons similar to Deliverable 1. deciding not to rely on Sherpa/RoMEO meant that every publication's contract had to be pulled up separately, turning a barely-manageable task into a logistical nightmare. We decided not to worry about past work but rather to focus on implementing the policy for future work. See the blog posts listed under "additional deliverables" instead. Deliverable 4: Populate institutional repository with some of the missing content. Status: Focused on Debbie Chachra and Jon Adler as case studies. Debbie's updated profile page is at http://works.bepress.com/debbie_chachra/ (pdf version included as document 02 in this collection, a discussion of this included as document 03). Jon ultimately ended up requesting that we not complete his profile page, but we ended up with an unexpected discovery about reverse-engineering preprints; see Document 10 under "additional deliverables" for more information on this. Required deliverable 1: Copy of final project report submitted to the ENE Graduate Committee Status: Represented by this document. Required deliverable 2: 10-15 minute oral presentation to ENE graduate students and faculty before end of semester Status: Presentation delivered to Olin College faculty as an alternative to this requirement. I led a ~30-minute presentation and discussion session alongside Dee Magnoni (Olin's head librarian) for the full Olin faculty meeting in March 2012. The faculty meeting handout that was prepared for the occasion is attached as document 01 in this collection. Additional deliverables produced during the course of the semester: * Document 04 - "The open access impact lasts for 17 years." A blog post discussing the impact of open access on one's impact factor. * Document 05 - "Why OA makes a bigger difference to little teaching schools, debunking the 3 major theories of open access impact, and arXive." A blog post that continues my literature review on open access. * Document 06 - "Resources for open access advocates." A blog post that links to and references a suite of materials useful for presentations on open access. * Document 07 - "Open access makes sense for teachers who care about teaching." A blog post that explores why open access makes sense from a teaching-focused faculty's point of view, since most open access promotional material focuses on the potential boost to one's research career. * Document 08 - "How institutional repositories work nowadays." A blog post on what goes into making a repository behind the scenes. * Document 09 - "Mike Witt." Notes from a conversation with Purdue librarian Mike Witt on institutional repositories. Includes my introduction to Jason Priem's research on altmetrics. * Document 10 - "Reverse engineering." A blog post about an idea on how to "recover" lost preprints, a thought that ultimately failed due to copyright restrictions. * Document 11 - A template for letters to publishers who already own the copyright for an article, requesting that the article be allowed to be posted in open access repositories.