Do you want to become an Open Access author?
There are two primary ways faculty can make their articles open access:

1. OA journals: OA journals perform peer review and then make the approved contents freely available to the world.
2. OA repositories: Authors can post their articles in institutional and/or disciplinary repositories. (Many non-OA journals permit authors to archive their articles in repositories.)

What can faculty do to promote open access?

• Submit your research articles to OA journals, when there are appropriate OA journals in your field.
• Deposit your preprints and/or postprints in an OA repository.
• When asked to referee a paper or serve on the editorial board for an OA journal, accept the invitation.
• If you are an editor of a non-OA journal, start an in-house discussion about converting to OA, experimenting with OA, or letting authors retain copyright.
• Work with your professional societies to make sure they understand OA.
• Educate the next generation of scientists and scholars about OA.
• Learn more about what faculty can do at http://tinyurl.com/WhatFacCanDo
• Learn what everyone can do at http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/do.htm