Contributed by Nicole Sump-Crethar
Near the end of the conference we heard from the Dean of Libraries at the University of Kansas, Lorraine Harricombe. She shared the process on the KU campus for creating a campus-wide open access policy and adoption of the institutional repository. Over two years the library worked closely with the Provost’s office and faculty council to write and adopt an open access policy that encourages authors to maintain at least some of their copyright and deposit their work into the institutional repository at KU, known as KU ScholarWorks.
The conference wrapped up with a panel discussion made up of Kevin Droegemeier, the OU VP of Research, and Jerry Malayer from the OSU Center for Veterinary Health Sciences. The discussion ranged across all the topics covered in the conference, but focused largely on bringing OU and OSU together to work on addressing the need for more robust and fully supported institutional repositories as well as open access policies for our campuses and better support for our researchers and authors when they want to use or publish open access resources.
The conference was wonderful and the conversation has only started. Many questions still need to be answered. If you are interested in Nicole’s notes from the conference she would be glad to share them. Just let her know.
What opportunities do you see for collaboration across the state? What does OSU have to offer that is unique?
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