News from October 2024
See all upcoming Libraries events — including our featured events, workshops, and exhibits — on the UMN Twin Cities Events Calendar.
Step 5: OA Week wrap-up
We hope you’ve been enjoying Open Access Week and have learned a lot—now you’re ready to celebrate OA all throughout the year!
Open Access Week Day 4: Share without paying
Yesterday, in Day 3, we talked about keeping your rights, but you may already have the right to share your work. Today we’ll talk about how to check what your options are.
Open Access Week Day 3: Keep your rights!
Yesterday, in Day 2, we talked about how to check what permissions you have to your work. Today we’ll show you how to keep your rights the next time you publish.
Open Access Week Day 2: Permissions
Yesterday, in Day 1, we shared how depositing your work in repositories like arXiv or the University Digital Conservancy (UDC) can help you share your work without spending your grant funding on article processing charges. However, in order to submit your work to a repository, you need to have the right to share it.
Open Access Week Day 1: Repositories
In celebration of Open Access Week, we’ll be talking this week about how to share your work without paying a fee. Today we’ll get you started with open access repositories!
Stop spending your research funding on author fees!
Next week is Open Access Week, an international celebration of open access. Over the next week, we’ll be sharing with you how you can make your work open for everyone to read while saving as much of your money as you can for your research.
Walter Library at 100 — Celebrating the University Libraries
The Libraries is planning a series of events and celebrations for 2023 and 2024 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Walter Library, while raising awareness of the importance of the University Libraries to campus.