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Open Access Week 2011

In 2011, the University Libraries are recognizing Open Access Week by celebrating the scholarship of graduate students. We are hosting several activities to raise awareness and knowledge on campus around issues of access to information.

Please join us for any or all!

Panel discussion
Graduate Student Scholars Discuss the Future of Scholarship

Graduate student scholars in education, area studies, and other fields will discuss their experiences in publishing open access journals, developing open educational resources, and other ways they share their scholarship. Speakers: Alfonso Sintjago, Megan Corbin

Wednesday, 10/26/11
Location: Andersen Library room 120
Pizza at 4:30 pm
Panel discussion 5-6pm

Workshop:
Open Access Publishing: Making your work available to the world

Discover how to take advantage of open access publishing to advance your own research and career goals. Learn about journals that are partly or fully open access, and explore what you may be able to do with previously published work.

Mon, 10/24/2011 - 1pm - 2pm
Walter Library Room 310
Register now!

Awareness Tables at Walter Library, Wilson Library, and other locations around campus
Stop by to get pens, buttons, t-shirts, stickers - and information!

Posters for Printing & Adaptation

Posters for use at the University of Minnesota are available at http://z.umn.edu/umnoaposters; materials for adaptation at other institutions are available at http://z.umn.edu/oaposters.

Why is unrestricted public access to scholarly articles important? *

Moral arguments Pragmatic arguments
  • OA frees authors and readers from needless access barriers.
  • OA returns the control of scholarship to scholars.
  • By increasing the author's impact, it advances the author's purpose in writing journal articles for impact rather than money.
  • OA serves the under-served.
  • For the special subset of publicly-funded research, open access is part of fundamental fairness to taxpayers.
  • OA reaches a wider audience at lower cost than toll-access forms of distribution.
  • OA makes research literature and data available for crunching by new generations of sophisticated software (indexing, mining, summarizing, translating, linking, recommending, alerting, mash-ups, and other forms of processing).
  • OA widens dialogue, builds community, and supports cooperation.
  • OA accelerates research and increases the productivity of researchers.
  • OA makes research more useful and increases the research funder's return on investment.
* Adapted from Peter Suber's "Open access and the self-correction of knowledge"

Voices From The Community

  • Open Access 101 video
    In partnership with student advocates, who are increasingly active around Open Access issues, SPARC has developed a new, animated Open Access 101 video. This 3-minute clip highlights the widespread concern among students for the cost of access, the dynamics of the scholarly publishing process, how Open Access is made possible, and the opportunities created by the open accessibility and reuse of research results.

  • Voices of Open Access Video Series
    Watch 1-minute videos from a ...

    teacher
    teacher
    funder
    funder
    patient advocate
    patient
    advocate
    physician scientist
    physician
    scientist
    librarian
    librarian
    student
    student

  • Webcasts about why they support Open Access from ...
    Sir Richard Roberts
    Sir Richard Roberts
    Dr. Phil Bourne
    Dr. Phil Bourne

  • Piled Higher and Deeper: Nature vs. Science -- comics by Jorge Cham, PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University.

    Part 1
    Part 1
    Part 2
    Part 2
    Part 3
    Part 3
    Part 4
    Part 4
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