International Open Access Week is an annual "opportunity for the academic and research 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."
This year's theme is Community over Commercialization which calls on stakeholders to "prioritize approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the public and the academic community."
Don't miss Wednesday's featured guest speaker!
Bridging the Digital Divide with the Belmont Digital Repository
Chuck Hodgin, Digital Strategies Librarian
Tuesday, October 22 at 12pm via Teams
The commercialization of academic publishing and subsequent swelling cost of academic journal subscriptions have created a world of inequitable access to critical research. Practitioners, researchers, students and faculty not attached to a well-funded institution or who can't afford to pay article and/or subscription fees out of their own pockets have a legally impassable barrier to knowledge, regardless of their expertise or even if their tax dollars helped fund the research. Libraries around the world are engaged in many initiatives to push back against this information inequity. Chuck Hodgin, Digital Strategies Librarian at Belmont University, will discuss the steps that Belmont is taking to help bridge this digital divide via the Belmont Digital Repository.
Exercising Your Author Rights: How to Effectively Share Your Scholarship
Molly Keener, Director of Digital Initiatives & Scholarly Communication at Wake Forest University
Wednesday, October 23 at 10am via Teams
Most scholars have a cursory understanding of copyright law and how it applies to their published scholarship. But many don't know that they have rights well before they're asked to sign copyright agreements and that they can use those rights to ensure versions of their works are shared openly, even when not publishing in open access venues. In this talk, Molly Keener, Director of Digital Initiatives & Scholarly Communication at Wake Forest University, will give a mini "Copyright 101" primer before looking at common rights clauses in publishing contracts, breaking down how author rights can be exercised to maximize discoverability of scholarship, and identifying resources that scholars can use to make confident determinations of their rights as authors.
"Can I post it?" Office Hours with a Librarian
Thursday, October 24, 2-3pm via Teams
Friday, October 25, 10-11am via Teams
With options for exclusive and non-exclusive licenses, green and gold routes to open access, and transformative agreements, navigating author agreements as a scholar has become more complicated than ever. Are you curious about the ways you can share your own publications? Drop in to one of our “Can I post it?” open office hours during Open Access Week to consult with a librarian. Bring your author agreement and we’ll take it from there!
No need to register, just click the desired date/time listed above the description to see the Teams links and join the virtual office hours.