What is this project?

In 2010, the faculty governance bodies adopted an open access policy for faculty publications, setting a default non-exclusive license to make their articles openly available via Duke's repository. In order to facilitate deposit of their publications, Duke Libraries integrated the open access deposit process with the faculty profile system, called Scholars@Duke (built on the open source VIVO platform). The Libraries built a service model around open access that focuses on faculty/researcher incentives and saving faculty time, and integrated it into existing workflows, so open access deposit does not seem like an additional burden, but rather a normal part of the publication process. The work also provides positive feedback loops for authors who do deposit, like displaying analytics on how their work is being used, cited, and discussed. Duke faculty authors get an automated email once a month that highlights when the system has found new publications they have authored, and invites them to add the publications to their profile and to upload the publication for open access, all in one step. This has been highly successful.

Where can I learn more?

View an overview of the model and how it works. Duke University Libraries blog posts here and here describe how they adapted the repository interface to focus on researcher needs and incentives.

In what ways does this initiative elevate or highlight NASA's Year of Open Science goals?

The project:

• Establishes strategic approaches for advancing open science,

• Accounts for open science activities in evaluations and incentives