Open Access in General
Open Access Funds and Mandates
Open Access Publishing
Faculty Speak on Open Access
Open Access Week Planning
 

Open Access in General

Open Access 101
From SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
A short video that explains open access and its importance.
 
Peter Suber on Open Access
From Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
Peter Suber (Harvard University) provides an overview of open access and discusses what its future may hold.  This video includes a question-and-answer period between the speaker and open access advocates at Harvard University. 
 
Open Access Explained!
From PhD Comics, Right to Research Coalition, SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Resources Coalition), and National Association of Graduate-Professional Students
This fun video explains what open access and scholarly publishing are all about.  
 
Voices of Open Access
From Open Access Videos
Six videos that show why people in different professions support open access. 
 
Libre accès
From Canadian Association of Research Libraries and McGill University Library
A short French video about the concept of open access. It is also available in English. 
 
‪Scientist Meets Publisher‬
From Alex Holcombe
Created by Alex Holcombe (University of Sydney), this humorous video explains how certain journal publishers make huge profits at the expense of maximum dissemination of published content.  It also addresses the benefits of open access.  More information about this video is available here. 
 
Open Access Management and Policy
From Fund for Scientific Research
These videos (Part 1 and Part 2) are recordings of an event in which different stakeholders of scholarly publishing address issues encountered in implementing open access. 
 
The Age of Open Access: New Paradigm for Universities and Researchers
From Concordia University, Montreal
A panel discussion that addresses these questions: "What challenges are facing universities that want to promote greater accessibility to their faculties research? What support and infrastructure are necessary for the journals to continue to survive (or better still, thrive) in this new environment? What are the choices and challenges facing researchers interested in advancing their research?" The moderator is Guy Berthiaume (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec). The panelists are John Willinsky (Stanford University), Michael Geist (University of Ottawa), Heather Joseph (SPARC), and Gerald Beasley (Concordia University, Montreal). There is no audio in the first minute of the video.
 
What Can Universities Do to Promote Open Access?
From Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
A presentation by Peter Suber (Harvard University) on how higher education institutions can promote open access.
 
Elliot Maxwell on Openness: How Increasing Accessibility and Responsiveness Can Transform Processes and Systems
From Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
A presentation in which Elliot Maxwell (Johns Hopkins University) "discusses how greater openness has been enabled by IT and the Internet, and how openness can serve as a lens to examine and a tool to reengineer different institutional and policy domains."
 

Open Access Funds and Mandates

 
Campus Open Access Policies: The Harvard Experience and How to Get There
From SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and Association of College & Research Libraries
Four videos that address Harvard University's open access policy and its broader implications. The speakers are John Ober (California Digital Library), Stuart Shieber (Harvard University), Kevin Smith (Duke University), and Catherine Candee (University of California).
 
Establishing an Institutional OA Publishing Fund: The UC Berkeley Experience
From Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing 2010
A presentation about the creation and management of an open access publishing fund at the University of California, Berkeley. The presenter is Chuck Eckman (UC Berkeley Library).
 
Open Access Mandate Policy Guidance for Universities
From Stevan Harnad
Stevan Harnad (Université du Québec à Montréal and University of Southampton) provides an introduction to open access, its benefits, and the significance of a green open access mandate. The video is divided into three parts: 1, 2, and 3.
 

Open Access Publishing

 
Being an Open Access Press--The First Two Years
From International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2009
A presentation about the Athabasca University Press's success of being an open access monograph publisher. The presenters are Frits Pannekoek, Walter Hildebrandt, Kathy Killoh, Shubhash Wasti, all from Athabasca University in Canada.
 
The eBook Transition: Collaborations and Innovations behind Open-access Monographs
From SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and Association of College & Research Libraries
A panel discussion of initiatives to support free online access to monographs. The panelists are Maria Bonn (University of Michigan), Michael Jensen (National Academies Press), and Patrick Alexander (Penn State University Press).
 
Economics of Open Access
From University of North Texas Symposium on Open Access 2011
This presentation summarizes studies of the economics of open access and addresses the implications for universities, governments, and libraries.  The presenter is Alma Swan (Key Perspectives Ltd.).  This presentation is also available as an HTML5 video. 
 
Open Access and the Changing State of Scholarly Publishing
From SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and Association of College & Research Libraries
Three videos about the evolving sphere of open access publishing. The speakers are Caroline Sutton (Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association), Wim van der Stelt (Springer), and Catriona MacCallum (PLoS ONE).
 
Open Access Book Publishing
From Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing 2010
Eelco Ferwerda (Amsterdam University Press) provides an overview of OAPEN's (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) study and recommendations of open access monograph publishing.
 
Open Access Publishers: Breaking Even and Growing Fast
From Academic Publishing in Europe 2011
Mark Patterson (Public Library of Science) talks about the performance and growth of open access journal publishers.
 
Open Access Publishing Today: What Scientists Do and Why
From SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing) Symposium 2011
Salvatore Mele (CERN) discusses the findings of the Study of Open Access Publishing. The presentation slides are also available online.
 
Open Access: An STM Journal Publisher's Perspective
From University of North Texas Symposium on Open Access 2010
A presentation in which Karen Hunter (Elsevier) discusses the economics of journal publishing and how open access is viewed from the journal publisher's perspective. The presentation slides are also available online.
 
Open Journal Systems (OJS) Tutorials
From Public Knowledge Project
A series of videos that introduce viewers to OJS and cover a variety of topics such as how to use OJS to set up a journal, how to create a user account, how to use Google Analytics with OJS, etc.
 
What University Presses Think about Open Access
From University of North Texas Symposium on Open Access 2010
A presentation by Sanford Thatcher (Penn State University Press) about open access as viewed from the university press's perspective.
 
Who Pays for Open Access?
From Columbia University Libraries
A panel discussion about different models of open access publishing and their sustainability. The panelists are Mike Rossner (Rockefeller University Press), Ivy Anderson (California Digital Library), and Bettina Goerner (Springer).
 

Faculty Speak on Open Access

 
The Future Is Open Access
From SURF
A brief interview in which Arianna Betti explains how open access accelerates research and facilitates collaborations between scholars. Arianna Betti is a Philosophy faculty member at the University of Amsterdam.
 
The Importance of Open Access Publishing‬
From Eindhoven University of Technology
An interview in which Christoph Bartneck tells viewers why open access is important.  Christoph Bartneck is a faculty member of Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. 
 
The Ivory Tower and the Open Web
From Coalition for Networked Information Fall 2010 Membership Meeting
Daniel Cohen (George Mason University) discusses scholarly communication in the Internet age. The presentation slides are also available online.
 
John Houghton on Open Access
From SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
A short interview in which John Houghton speaks on the cost-effectiveness of open access and how using the Internet for scholarly communication increases return on investment in research. John Houghton is Professorial Fellow of the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies at Victoria University in Australia.
 
Open Access of Data Generates New Science
From SURF
A video in which Nico Sommerdijk explains why open access to research data may generate new knowledge. Nico Sommerdijk is a faculty member of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.
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Open Access: Mohamed Noor
From Duke University
Mohamed Noor (Duke University) talks about the advantages of publishing his works in open access Biology journals.
 
Open Access: Steve Stanton
From Duke University
Steve Stanton (Duke University) talks about the benefits of publishing in open access format to him as a postdoctoral scholar.
 
Prof. Mary Abukutsa-Onyango Discusses the Importance of Open Access for Research from Kenya and Other African Countries
From Leslie Chan
An interview in which Mary Abukutsa-Onyango (Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology) talks about "the importance of Open Access journals in Africa in ensuring that important research relevant to the continent are being published, read, and applied."
 
‪Relevance of Open Access by Marleen Temmerman‬
From @mire
Marleen Temmerman (Ghent University) discusses the importance of sharing research results with developing countries.  She also points out that researchers have the moral duty to disseminate their findings as widely as possible. 
 
The Research University Imperative to Distribute Scholarly Research
From University of North Texas Symposium on Open Access 2010
David Shulenburger (Association of Public and Land-grant Universities) discusses why higher education institutions should broaden access to their intellectual output in terms of its benefits to the institutions and its contribution to public good. The slides of this presentation are also available online.
 

Open Access Week Planning

 
UMich's March Open Access Week: Lessons and Ideas
From SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
A Webcast in which Molly Kleinman (University of Michigan) shares her thoughts and experience of organizing Open Access Week events at her institution in March 2009. For other videos on open access, check out the Open Access Directory's video page.