The University Libraries are sponsoring activities during Open Access Week (Oct. 25-31) to bring awareness to students and faculty about the importance of open access resources, publishing, and data, and how we can support open scholarship. This year’s theme is Community Over Commercialization.
Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of open access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make open access a new norm in scholarship and research.
Most sessions during the week are online and no registration necessary. For all the details, visit the University Libraries' Open Access website.
Oct. 25
Prepare Your Data for Openness — noon to 1 p.m., Zoom (link given to registrants); register here.
Scout Calvert will talk about how adopting open data practices can improve collaboration, safeguard data, and help researchers get ahead of data sharing requirements from funders and publishers. Data sharing and transparency can benefit science and increase researcher impact. But what does it take to make data genuinely open? This presentation will provide strategies for meaningfully open data, offer choices in data sharing, describe some limitations of openness, and help researchers get a jump start preparing data for openness.
Oct. 28
Questions You Have Always Wanted to Ask Journal Editors . . . Answered — 11 a.m. to noon, Peterson Room (Love Library South room 221) or Zoom.
This panel discussion includes Isabel Cheesman, Richard Graham, Silvana Martini, and Kara Mitchell Viesca, and is moderated by Sue Ann Gardner, scholarly communications librarian. Join four editors of academic journals to discuss some of the issues they deal with in their editing work. The session will be a directed conversation between the attendees and panelists and will include a thread relating to open access concerns.
Drop-in Session: Open Science — 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., Zoom
Facilitator Kiyomi Deards will lead this session. Do you have questions about open access in STEM? Join us to ask about OA educational resources, data, and publishing in your area of STEM. We can also discuss issues in OA sustainability and how OA publishing and resource creation can increase your scholarly reputation and research impact.
Oct. 29
Drop-in Session: Open Publishing — 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., Zoom
Sue Ann Gardner will facilitate this session. Do you have questions about open access publishing? Drop in and ask about selecting a journal, open access licenses, distributing your work in repositories, orcids, dois, or anything else related to open publishing.
Oct. 30
Reviewing Your Syllabus through the Lens of “Open” — 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., Witt Room (Love Library South room 224) or Zoom.
Join librarians Catherine Fraser Riehle and Melissa Gomis for a workshop focused on reviewing course syllabi with an eye to required and recommended course materials. Attendees will learn about and have time to experiment with tools and strategies for finding and integrating openly licensed and other no- and low-cost course materials relevant to their course content and teaching and learning goals.
