Open Access Week 2021 - It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity: Open Access services at Columbia University

PUBLIC INTEREST Your research is of potential public interest and you want to make sure it can be found and read.

REUSABILITY You want to make your educational materials, research, or data available for reuse and remixing by others.

INCREASED CITATION COUNTS Studies have shown that open-access work produced at Columbia is cited 200–300% more often that work only available in subscription journals.

COMPLIANCE Your funder requires that you make your research and/or data publicly available.

INNOVATION Your work is too interdisciplinary or too innovative to fit in any of the traditional journals in your field.

ETHICS You object to the enormous profit margins of the big publishers (35%).

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