What young researchers can do
to promote open access
Nancy Pontika, PhD 
CORE
Open University 
Email: nancy.pontika@open.ac.uk 
Twitter: @nancypontika 
Universita Degli Studi Di Trieste, 7 July 2015
Open Access : Where are we now? 
OA 
Growth
Growth of items in Open Access Repositories
Records stored across all OARs
164,259,752 records across 2,531 repositories as 
estimated by OpenDOAR
[December, 2013 -http://www.opendoar.org/]
SPARC Europe 
Open Access 
Diary 
COnnecting REpositories - CORE 
Aggregate all open access content distributed 
across different systems worldwide, enrich this 
content and provide access to it through a set of 
services …  
CORE Portal 
Open Access projects you can both use 
and contribute
Open Access Tracking Project 
Open Access Button 
What can you do to promote open 
access?
Open Access Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5rVH1KGBCY
Talk to your professors About our next publication… I 
am thinking of 
an Open Access 
journal …
Talk to your librarian I care a lot about Open Access. Can we 
have a chat about the 
current scholarly 
communications 
system?
Make your voice public  
Involve your classmates 
• Plan a session on Open Access during lunch 
time
• Create fliers with the benefits of open access 
• Push for an institutional repository 
• Push for an open access mandate 
Celebrate Open Access Week 
Get connected  
OpenCon
Conference Website : http://opencon2015.org/attend
Right to Research Coalition – R2RC
Grazie!
Domande?