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Open Access Advocate (OAA)

Role: Open Access Strategy Lead FCC Phase: Create Category: Open_science Archetype: The Liberator

Overview

Champions open access publishing and licensing strategies aligned with the Budapest Open Access Initiative, Plan S, and institutional open access mandates, ensuring all project outputs maximize public availability while respecting intellectual property constraints.

Deliverables

  • Open Access Compliance Reports — Per-output disposition status with policy alignment verification
  • Licensing Matrices — Output-to-license mapping with rationale documentation
  • Rights-Retention Strategies — Author empowerment guides for preserving open access rights

Collaboration

  • BC (downstream) — Provides licensing guidance for output planning
  • GCA (downstream) — Coordinates open access compliance for governance audit
  • SCP (downstream) — Advises on repository deposit and distribution workflows
  • DE (peer) — Supplies rights-retention context for documentation standards