Knowledge unfortunately isn’t free. Much of the research being conducted at universities, colleges, and institutes around the world is written up by professors, graduate students, and research associates and published in toll-access (subscription) journals. Anyone lacking a subscription to that journal will not be able to access the articles published there. This… read more
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Open Textbooks save students $1.5 million
The University of Minnesota announced today that the Open Textbook Network has saved students $1.5 million dollars through the adoption of open textbooks. The Open Textbook Library has over 200 open textbooks that anyone can use. For more information about this exciting achievement, see the official announcement: http://discover.umn.edu/news/teaching-education/u-ms-open-textbook-network-reports-student-savings-15-million-open-textbooks
OA Spectrum Evaluation Tool
SPARC has announced the launch of the Open Access Spectrum Evaluation Tool. The tool provides a concrete way to analyze the openness of a particular journal. The tool measures journal policies regarding reading/reuse rights, author posting rights, machine readability, compliance with funder & institutional mandates, and other openness indicators. Five hundred… read more
Wikipedia edit-a-thon is part of OA Week
To celebrate Open Access Week 2015, SPARC is promoting a week-long Wikipedia edit-a-thon. The purpose of the edit-a-thon is to “improve existing open access related pages, create new content where it needs to be added, and translate open access related pages into new languages”. More information about the Wikipedia edit-a-thon can… read more
Academia.edu and open access
I just read an interesting blog post about Academia.edu by Gary Hall: http://www.garyhall.info/journal/2015/10/18/does-academiaedu-mean-open-access-is-becoming-irrelevant.html Academia.edu (and ResearchGate) come up quite frequently when I talk with faculty, postdocs, and grad students. I’ve always advised that it may be a good tool to use if you are trying to network with your colleagues, but… read more
How has open scholarship helped you?
The Advancing Research Communication & Scholarship (ARCS) conference happened for the first time this past spring. One of the conversations from that conference was about the negative information some people hear about sharing their scholarship more openly. You know, the “if you share your data you’ll get scooped” warning. The… read more
A big OA Week thank you
Thanks to everyone who showed up for OA Week 2014 events! We had great discussions about OA issues and hope we sparked some long term interest in OA. We want to thank the UT Libraries administration for providing financial support for this week. And a big thanks to everyone who… read more
OA Week 2014 Planning Group
Here is the list of the wonderful people who volunteered to plan this year’s Open Access Week events. Roxanne Bogucka Carolyn Cunningham Jee Davis Allyssa Guzman Georgia Harper Colleen Lyon Aizul Ortega Kristi Park Robyn Rosenberg Kathryn Strickland If you have questions about any of the OA Week events, please… read more
Erin McKiernan's talk now available via UTDR
OA Week starts today at UT Austin
Open Access Week 2014 starts today at UT Austin. We’re getting a jump on International Open Access Week with a keynote talk by Dr. Erin McKiernan. Erin is an early career researcher and will be talking about how you can freely share your work and advance your career. Come join… read more
