Digital Commons@Center for the Blue Economy

Digital Commons@Center for the Blue Economy

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The Center for the Blue Economy supports open transparency in research and publishing and has therefore begun this Open Repository initiative at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. The repository houses a complete archive of publications by the National Ocean Economics Program, Faculty Scholarship, and Student Works. The flow of information into and out of libraries – the kinds of data now available, the varied formats in which it is delivered, who has access to it (and who does not) – is changing the way we read, study, research, and archive this material, and the physical and virtual contexts in which these activities occur. Open Access (OA) is largely associated with faculty scholarship. Faculty and librarians at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, CA and its research division, the Center for the Blue Economy, have been using OA as a way to break down for-profit publishing monopolies and the insidious barriers that this has created for the creation, transmission, distribution, and consumption of ideas and information. SPARC – the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition – has been a powerful advocate for such openness. Because, as it notes, “Different stakeholders in the system of scholarly communications can and will benefit from no restricted access to research and data,” its list of OA’s advantages is definitive. Researchers as authors: immediate visibility for research output and thus increased visibility and usage of their results. Open Access may even lead to an increase of impact. Researchers looking for information: access to literature everywhere, not only from a campus but also from any site with wifi access. Funding agencies: increased return on investment (ROI), increased visibility. Universities & research institutes: greater visibility, clearer management information. Libraries: increased access for target audience, financially a more attractive model than the current subscription model. Teachers & students: unrestricted access to material, enriched education, allowing equality of learning in poor as well as in rich nations. Science: enhanced and accelerated research cycle. Citizens & society: access to knowledge / access to the results of publicly funded research. Enterprises: access to critical information. Publishers: transparent business model, ultimate online article distribution, ultimate visibility for articles.

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Digital Commons

http://cbe.miis.edu/do/oai/

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• Dublin Core Terms
• ETDMS 1.0
• OAI-DC
• OpenAIRE 1