Open Access
What is Open Access?
Open Access (OA) literature is peer-reviewed, scholarly work that is available online for free, immediate, and permanent access. Any user who has access to the Internet may read, download, store, print, use, and data-mine the digital content of Open Access works. The Internet makes it possible to share work widely and cheaply; publishers and authors use Open Access to make work available to a broad community of readers rather than limiting the readership to libraries or institutions that can afford subscription fees.
What is MLibrary doing to support and promote Open Access?
Deep Blue
Deep Blue is the University of Michigan’s institutional repository, an online service that provides open access to published and previously unpublished work by University of Michigan faculty and students. Work deposited in Deep Blue is crawled by Google and other search engines, preserved over the long term, and made freely available at a URL that will never break.
Scholarly Publishing Office
The Scholarly Publishing Office (SPO) of the University of Michigan University Library serves the scholarly community by providing sustainable electronic publishing services, and supporting local control of intellectual assets. SPO publishes a broad range of material of interest to scholars in many fields, including journals, online books, print on demand books, exhibits from the Library's Special Collection, scholarly databases and bibliographies, and most of it is available for free online.
PubMed Central Deposit Service
The University Library has developed a service to assist NIH-funded researchers comply with the new NIH Public Access Policy, which requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central within twelve months of publication.
Copyright Office
The University Library’s Copyright Office offers one-on-one support for a range of publishing and copyright questions. The Library’s copyright specialist can help you understand your publishing agreements, and assist you with negotiations to retain the rights in your scholarly works, including the right to make your work freely available online. The Copyright Office serves all members of the University community, including faculty, researchers, lecturers, staff, librarians, and students.
