What Faculty can do to promote Open Access:

http://www.openaccessweek.org/wp-content... (Letter)
http://www.openaccessweek.org/wp-content... (A4)


A) Deposit your preprints in an Open-Access AOI-compliant archive:

http://www.openarchives.org

If you have questions about archiving your eprints, then see
Stevan Harnad's Self-Archiving FAQ.

http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/self-f...


B) When asked to referee a paper or serve on the editorial board for
an Open Access Journal, accept the invitation.

Faculty needn't donate their time and labor to journals that
lock up their content behind access barriers where it is less
useful to the profession. Universities should support faculty
who make this otherwise career-jeopardizing decision.

Faculty don't need to boycott priced journals...
but they don't need to assist them either.

C) If you are an editor of a toll-access Journal, then start an
in-house discussion about converting to Open Access,
experimenting with Open Access, letting authors retain
copyright, abolishing the Ingelfinger rule, or declaring
independence (quitting and launching an Open Access
journal to serve the same research niche).

D) Work with your professional societies to make sure
they understand Open Access. Persuade the organization
to make its own journal OA, endorse OA for other journals
in the field, and support OA eprint archiving by all scholars
in the field.

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overv...


E) Educate the next generation of scientists
and scholars about OA.