10. Publish in OA journals
9. Submit grants to funding agencies that support OA publishing.
8. Move to a country that has signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access.
7. Only review for OA journals. For mixed-access journals, make them guaranty that article they want you to review will be OA, otherwise, don't review it.
6. Recruit scientists that publish in OA journals.
5. On grant-review panels, score applicants that have an OA publishing record better then an equivalent applicant that publishes in closed journals.
4. Subscribe to or read Peter Suber's OA blog
3. In your grants and papers, reference OA publications
2. When reviewing papers, give the authors a hard time for citing closed access publications when there are better ones that are OA....
1. If you are looking for a position in Academia, and you find yourself in front of a departmental chair- person that tells you they will not grant you tenure if you publish in OA journals, don't take that job.
I'd revise Number 8: don't move, just work to get your university and the major public funding agencies in your country to sign the Berlin Declaration --and then to implement it.
Number 10 is good advice but we can't yet assume that all scholars will be able to find high-quality OA journals in their research niche. Until then, scholars should understand that publishing in a conventional journal, and self-archiving the postprint, is a quick and easy way to provide bona fide OA to their research. I'd make providing OA to one's own work --through OA journals or OA repositories -- Number 1.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/22/2006 06:06:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
