Open Access
AAUP and its members are deeply engaged in the debate over open access (or OA) models for scholarly communications.
AAUP and OA
February 2012: AAUP issues statement on RWA, FRPAA, and America COMPETES Act. Read the full statement
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January 2012: AAUP submitted comments in response to a further OSTP request for information on questions pertaining to long-term preservation of, and public access to, the results of federally funded research. Read the AAUP comments. View all responses to OSTP RFI.
March 2011: The AAUP Report "Sustaining Scholarly Publishing" looks at a number of new business and funding models that can support new forms of scholalrly publishing and access models. The report includes case studies of several OA-based publishing programs. Read more >
January 2010: AAUP submitted comments in response to the White House's Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) questions about public access policy. Read the AAUP OSTP response. Go to the OSTP Public Access Policy Forum.
June 2009: Annual Meeting Plenary: Directions for Open Access Publishing
June 2008: Annual Meeting Plenary: Open Access From Budapest to Harvard
February 2007: AAUP issues a statement on Open Access. Read the AAUP OA Statement.
Online OA Resources
The Budapest Open Access Initiative
Oxford Open Access Workshop
Information and slides from a June 2006 workshop presenting information from Oxford Journals' OA experiments.
Open Access Bibliography
Charles Lowry, ARL, 2005
