News for Open Access
Early implementation date for the new National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy
New guidelines for research and publishing following the updated Public Access Policy, announced by The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on April 30, 2025. Like the current policy, it applies to peer-reviewed journal articles from all research funded in whole or in part by NIH.
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.
Open Access Week 2023: Community over Commercialization
The theme of this year’s International Open Access Week is “community over commercialization”. The OA Week 2023 Advisory Committee explains this is a time to discuss “which approaches to open scholarship prioritize the best interests of the public and the academic community — and which do not.”
Year of Open Science: A dose of innovation
From the first “weeds and seeds” medicines to today’s synthesized pharmaceuticals, the face of pharmacology is changing, literally.
From journals to next generation publishing
The Libraries’ statement of open access (OA) principles describes our aims for true transformation of the scholarly publishing system. We support next generation publishing models and academy-owned publishing infrastructure so that scholars and academic organizations are in control of production.
Subscribe-to-open and diamond: Equitable models of open access
The University of Minnesota Libraries is working towards an open, equitable, transparent, and sustainable scholarly publishing system. “Subscribe to Open” and other “diamond” OA models, in which everyone can read scholarly articles for free and all authors are able to publish their work at no cost to themselves, will help achieve these goals.
Using grant funding for research, not publishing
One of the Libraries’ open access (OA) principles states: “We prioritize open access publishing models through collection development strategies that are open, equitable, transparent, and sustainable.” Here we’ll talk about our belief that OA publishing models should enable researchers to preserve their funding for direct research activities, rather than for publication fees.