Oct. 24-28: Open Access Week
October 21, 2016
Library encourages campus to mark International Open Access Week
The University of Delaware Library is encouraging members of the campus community to join colleagues around the world in marking International Open Access Week, Oct. 24-28.
Steps people can take to support open access include the following:
• Attend a program on campus to learn more about open access, creative commons, the impact of copyright on your work, and what digital initiative are happening on campus.
Monday, Oct. 24: “Creative Commons: What You Need to Know” will be offered from 4-5 p.m., in Room 114 of the Morris Library. This workshop is open to students, faculty and staff. No registration needed.
Wednesday, Oct. 26: “Copyright and Your Research: Managing your Copyrights,” a talk by noted copyright expert Peter Hirtle at 4 p.m., in the first floor Reading Room in Morris Library.
Thursday, Oct. 27: “Digital Scholarship Showcase” a series of “lightning talks” at 1 p.m. will illustrate how UD faculty have taken advantage of the opportunities digital scholarship skills, tools and methods provide to enhance their research and teaching. Discussion to follow will focus on identifying the needs for an anticipated digital scholarship center in the Morris Library. Class of 1941 Lecture Room, Morris Library.
Acceptances for the last two programs are encouraged via email at libraryrsvp@winsor.lib.udel.edu or by calling 302-831-2231 by Oct. 25, as refreshments will be served. Walk-ins are welcome.
• Make a list of open access journals in a discipline in which you would consider publishing, and share it with colleagues. The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. Other resources like Think. Check. Submit. can help in evaluating journals one is considering.
• Start a conversation during a research group meeting, journal club, or staff meeting about open access and how sharing research openly can increase the visibility and impact of their work. Use videos such as “Open Access Explained” from PhD Comics to help start the conversation.
• Send at least one manuscript to an open access journal within the next year. Use WhyOpenResearch to find no-cost or low-cost open access options.
• Deposit at least one article into an open access repository such as UDSpace during Open Access Week and encourage colleagues to do the same. A growing number of studies show a strong correlation between making an article publicly accessible online and a significant increase in views, downloads, and ultimately citations.
• Use the SPARC author addendum on a publication to reserve specific rights. The SPARC author addendum is a legal instrument that you can use to modify your copyright transfer agreements with journal publishers. It allows you to select which specific copyrights you want to keep. These rights may include distributing copies in the course of teaching and research, posting the article on a personal or institutional Web site, or creating derivative works. UD librarians can help you with this process.
• Contribute to a conversation on campus about institutional support for open access. Increasingly, colleges and universities are supporting faculty in making their research and scholarship open — from institutional open access policies such as the UD Faculty Open Access policy (4.2.15) to expressing support for open access in promotion and tenure guidelines.
• Get an ORCID (using your UD email address). Try Impactstory. ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and supports automated linkages between you and your professional work. Impactstory is an open-source website that helps researchers explore and share the online impact of their research.
(Editor’s note: Much of this information was taken from Nick Shockey’s blog post “Commit to Putting Open in Action this Open Access Week!” published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
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