As momentum builds in the movement for open scholarly communications, International Open Access Week 2019 is asking, “Open for whom?”

Kurt Heisler and Chris Kenneally

From October 21st through 27th, in dozens of countries around the world, colleges, libraries, and research institutions are holding seminars, panel discussions, and meetups to explore open access publishing and the open sharing of knowledge.

Now in its 12th year, International Open Access Week has chosen as a theme for 2019, “Open for Whom?  Equity in Open Knowledge.”  Participants are urged to consider not only what open access means to publishing, but also what open access means to researchers and others whose voices may have been excluded in the past.

Copyright Clearance Center is marking OA Week 2019 with a special series of posts available on our blog, Velocity of Content. Kurt Heisler, CCC’s Director of Publisher Sales, offers for a quick review of highlights.

Transformative agreements, he notes, are increasingly the preferred way for publishers and research institutions, including university libraries, to make open access sustainable and achievable.

“When you think of transformational agreements, they’re coming in a lot of different varieties – ‘Read and publish’ ‘Publish and read,’ deposit accounts, tokens, all those sort of things. All of them trying to encourage that anything that’s being published from an institution is done in an open access manner,” Heisler says.

“But that then drives a lot complication when trying to manage those deals,” he tells CCC’s Chris Kenneally.

At CCC, Heisler notes, “We’ve worked for the last five years to make sure all of the systems within the ecosystem have the correct identifiers to drive rules that are metadata driven. You want to be able to automate it, and you can only do that with the right identifiers.  We find metadata is the secret to how we drive the business in the next five years around these new deals.”

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