Are you interested in publishing Open Access, but don’t have the budget for the related fees? Photo of Joseph S. Ross Attend a discussion with Dr. Joseph Ross to learn more about medRxiv, the predominant biomedical preprint server, and hear about the position and rise of preprints within the biomedical sciences. With PubMed now indexing preprints that reference NIH-funding, this is the perfect time to learn more about posting your scholarship as a preprint!

Creative Commons (CC) licenses are an important tool in the Open Access movement. They signal that a work can be freely used and shared in ways the copyright holder allows. Join us for this fully online workshop to review how the CC licenses work and find out where to find CC licensed media.

The 2022 OSTP ‘Nelson Memo’ sets out policy recommendations for federal research funding bodies to update or establish mandatory public access policies. Despite recent legal wrangling, it seems likely that a significant number of researchers in the US – and any teams they collaborate with internationally – will be required comply with zero-embargo green open access requirements for future research projects. This webinar will explore some anticipated impacts from these policies, set out how publishers are responding, and discuss some of the challenges still to be addressed in order to make public access to research outputs a reality.

Open Scholarship Café: Open Science Practices for Early Career Researchers - How can they help me?

Open Science (sometimes called Open Research or Open Scholarship) is about making scientific research and data available to people at all levels of society. Many early career researchers (ECRs) might want to make the outputs of their research more openly available, but are unsure of where to start. In addition, ECRs may face additional barriers such as limited access to Open Science training opportunities and resources.

The purpose of this seminar is:

• To provide ECRs with an introduction to Open Science practices

• To demonstrate how ECRs can start embedding open science practices into their research straight away

• To showcase the value of engaging with Open Science for professional development.

We will hear from Hardy Schwamm, Open Scholarship Librarian at University of Galway, and Rory Coyne, a PhD student in the School of Psychology, who will offer some personal reflection on how incorporating Open Science practices into his research has advanced his career progression and development as an ECR.

A new hub for literature related to Open Science – The Jülich Open Science Collection (JuOSC)

This presentation will introduce the Jülich Open Science Collection (JuOSC) as a hub for all literature related to open science as a discipline. The collection will include traditional publication outputs (books and papers) as well as grey literature (blog posts, preprints, theses, etc.) and ephemera (twitter threads, podcasts, etc.).

As the collection is specifically for open science as a discipline, by definition all materials it contains will be freely available to everyone at no cost, as well as available on demand. As such, we are ensuring that all materials are either open access or available through a cc-by license. To ensure access on demand, copies of all materials will be stored on the JuSER infrastructure at Jülich. In the near future, we will also construct mirrors at Zenodo and at the Internet Archive.

The collection can be visited here:

JuSER publication portal – Jülich Open Science Collection (JuOSC)

https://juser.fz-juelich.de/collection/OpenScience?ln=en

Speaker: Monica Gonzalez-Marquez (Central Library, Forschungszentrum Jülich)

Publikationsdatabasen DiVA är ett bra verktyg för din som forskar för att sprida information om det du gör. Under detta webinarium visar vi dig mer.

The paradigms of “Open Science” and “Open Access” are key concepts in the agenda of the European Research Area and, therefore, they represent a commitment (and, in many ways, a challenge) both for individual researchers and for the institutions that are called to implement them. In this seminar (i) we will discuss how the University of Cagliari is moving in the broad area of "Open Science/Access" and (ii) we will deal with its underlying concepts and ongoing practices through the presentation of actual show-cases. Furthermore, the current placement of our University in this framework will be as well presented in relation to its commitments within the European Digital UniverCity (EDUC) Alliance and in the perspective of the Human Resources Strategy for Research (HRS4R) we are about to open.

This year’s Open Access Week focuses on the theme of “community over commercialization” and provides an opportunity to examine the successes and challenges of adopting open practices in software development, open education, open data, and new funding models to support this work. Join our panelists as they converse around their work to support the adoption of open. This program will take place fully online through Zoom.

Our Hacking the Academy program series looks at the new ways in which research is produced, shared, archived, and reused.

Panelists:

Ashley Farley, Program Officer of Knowledge & Research Services, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Vani Mandava, Head of Engineering, eScience Institute’s Scientific Software Engineering Center, University of Washington

Jenny Muilenburg, Research Data Services Librarian, University of Washington Libraries

Lauren Ray, Open Education Librarian, University of Washington Libraries

The theme of this year’s International Open Access Week is “Community over Commercialization,” and so, in that spirit, the Pratt Institute Libraries and the Center for Teaching and Learning offer this panel discussion about how open access models of publishing and knowledge-sharing promote community building. Our panellists include Amy Ballmer of Pratt Institute Libraries, Shannon Mattern of UPenn, and Benjamin Tiven of Library Stack (which has just published Shannon’s newest OA essay “Reparative Redaction”).

The panel will discuss what open access means, why public scholarship is imperative at this moment and the benefits and challenges of the open access model. This panel discussion is intended for anyone working in academia and higher education, whether you’re interested in publishing through the open-access model, accessing materials published through the open-access model, or engaging with the philosophical and political stakes of knowledge production and knowledge sharing in the twenty-first century. This event celebrates both the launch of Shannon Mattern’s essay “Reparative Redaction” through Library Stack and International Open Access Week.

We will be engaging with several poster designs held in the Center for Southwest Research discussing the visual power of print, as well as how these images can motivate artists and curators, today.

(Online and in the Waters Room at Zimmerman Library. Link to Zoom provided after registration.)

Panelists:

+ Carol A. Wells, Executive Director of Center for the Study of Political Graphics

+ Emily Sulzer, Archives Director, Center for the Study of Political Graphics

+ Dr. Kenneth Oravetz, Coord. and Lecturer of Critical Text Analysis, UNM University College, Printmaker

+ Dr. Susanne Anderson-Riedel, Associate Professor and Chair, UNM Department of Art: Studio, History, Education

Scholar-led publications - a field of action for sustainable Diamond Open Access infrastructures

In a 20-minute keynote presentation we will explain how the library can support the establishment of scholar-led journals or proceedings:

- What technical solutions can be considered for hosting journals or proceedings?

- What organisational steps do researchers need to take?

- How can the library help with set-up, organisation and funding?

Open Access services are already available:

(1) DFG-funded publication funds for Gold Open Access articles and books.

(2) institutional repositories for free online publications by members and affiliates of the university

(3) national Publish&Read transformation agreements

(4) numerous specific publishing agreements with an Open Access component, which enable researchers* at Fulda University of Applied Sciences to publish Open Access articles free of charge or at reduced rates.

In the one-hour online event, researchers and the library's publication support services will be able to talk to each other and develop ideas for joint projects.

An event for the Fulda Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Creation (https://www.hs-fulda.de/wirtschaft/forschung/fu3).

The presentation will be held in German.

Indigenous data governance is a critical aspect of upholding Indigenous rights and fostering equitable partnerships in research and data management. The CARE Principles (Collective benefit, Authority to control, Responsibility, and Ethics) are designed to guide the inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in data governance and increase their access to and benefit from data. This talk will share emerging tools and resources that can be leveraged to implement the CARE Principles within research and data relationships.

University of Arizona's Dr. Stephanie Russo-Carroll, who is also the co-founder of the Global Indigenous Alliance (GIDA), will speak on the topic of indigenous rights and open data on Thursday, October 26th, 2023 from noon to 1pm EDT.

While a number of Swiss HEI have been hosting some e-journals and even some e-books, these activities have remained on a small scale, and not even one institution has, so far, set up their own university press. We will look at what led Scottish HEIs to jointly launch Scottish Universities Press, what its organisational structures are, how it operates, and what vision its founders have. What does a university press offer that goes beyond library publishing? What are the advantages for scholars and for institutions? How does Open Access publishing via the university press of one’s own institution compare to publishing with a commercial publisher for a Book Processing Charge?

After the presentation the audience will be invited to discuss if and how SUP could be a blueprint for Switzerland.

Lehrmaterialien sind so facettenreich wie die wissenschaftliche Publikationslandschaft selbst. Aufgrund der Diversität von Lehrmaterialien entsteht die besondere Herausforderung, diese auf geeigneten Plattformen zu veröffentlichen und somit eine grösstmögliche Sichtbarkeit zu erreichen. Je nach Format des Materials werden meist unterschiedliche Plattformen angesteuert: Videos landen auf SWITCHtube/Kaltura oder YouTube, Bilder und Grafiken auf Wikimedia Commons oder Flickr, Lehrbücher im institutionellen Open Access-Repositorium usw. Dabei stellt die Schwierigkeit, offene Lehrmaterialien für den eigenen Kontext aufzufinden, eines der grössten Hindernisse in der Etablierung von Open Educational Ressources dar.

Hilfreich wäre es also, eine zentrale Plattform für die Schweizer Hochschullandschaft zu haben, auf der Dozierende ihre offenen Lehrmaterialien frei verfügbar veröffentlichen und sich wiederum für ihre Recherche nach OER begeben können. Die ZHAW richtet aktuell gemeinsam mit SWITCH ein solches OER-Repositorium ein. Basis ist die Open Source Software Edu-Sharing. Das Projekt, die bisherigen Erfahrungen und die Vorteile einer solchen gesamtheitlichen Ablagelösung werden in diesem Input präsentiert.

On October 26, during Open Access Week, the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and Érudit both celebrate 25 years with this free webinar, hosted together as Coalition Publica.

Join Mark Huskisson, PKP Publishing Specialist and the co-chair of the Assembly of the Commons at OPERAS in conversation with panelists from Canada, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Sweden to discuss national portals – collections of journals that are published within a geographic location that combine their metadata, and sometimes content, in a single interface.

This is a free event. Anyone interested in increasing the reach of scholarly publishing, or already using PKP's community driven FOSS Open Journal Systems (OJS) software for scholarly publishing, can join. Visit the PKP news blog to learn more about the panelists and to register.