Celebrate OPEN ACCESS WEEK! October 21-27
What is Open access (OA)? It
refers to freely available, digital, online information. Open access
scholarly literature is free of charge and often carries less restrictive
copyright and licensing barriers than traditionally published works, for both
the users and the authors.
“Open Access
Week is an opportunity to take action in making openness the default for
research—to raise the visibility of scholarship, accelerate research, and turn
breakthroughs into better lives. It also is an important opportunity to
catalyze new conversations, create connections across and between communities
that can facilitate this co-design, and advance progress to build more
equitable foundations for opening knowledge.” (source: The Scholarly Publishing and Academic
Resources Coalition).
While OA is a newer form of scholarly
publishing, many OA journals comply with well-established peer-review processes
and maintain high publishing standards. There are many discipline specific and multi-disciplinary
open access journals
Depositing your
work in an open access repository is another way to share your research. The
UWSP Libraries has created a
guide to help you deposit your research into the UW System’s institutional
repository, MINDS@UW.
UWSP faculty
can deposit their original or previously published research into MINDS@UW
broadening the reach of their research. Many journals allow authors to upload
published articles, especially preprints.
WORKSHOPS:
The UWSP
Libraries is holding three MINDS@UW free workshops for faculty and staff this
fall 2019 semester.
In these
workshops, you will learn more about this institutional repository, how it can
expand the reach of your scholarship, and step-by-step instructions of how to
deposit materials.
All workshops
will be held in ALB 316 taught by Troy Espe. For more information and to
register for these free workshops, click here:
OCTOBER 21
(12-12:45)
OCTOBER 25
(1-1:45)
DECEMBER 13
(12-12:45)
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