Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring the last full week of October each year, members of the research community come together for Open Access Week. Librarians and researchers around the globe take time to discuss the impact open access (OA) has had over the last few decades, identify recent trends in OA, and tackle new issues and problems in open access.
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Open Access Week 2023: Dr. Lawrence’s Translated Texts
Reading Time: 2 minutesGuest post by Jason Boczar, Digital Scholarship and Publishing Librarian As it celebrates its fifteenth year, SPARC’s International Open Access Week aims to “raise awareness” about the “importance of community control of knowledge sharing systems.” To celebrate, the team behind USF Library’s …Continue Reading
Green OA and self-archiving: Using your Author’s Approved Manuscript (AAM) to increase the impact of your research
Reading Time: 2 minutesAuthors, who take extra steps after publication by sharing and advertising their work, can help to increase the impact of their publications. One method of increasing a journal article’s audience is to make use of the publisher’s author rights or author posting policies by contributing an Author’s Approved Manuscript (AAM) to an institutional repository.
Open Access Week 2021
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year Open Access Week is from Oct. 25-31, 2021. The theme is “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.” SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, organizes Open Access Week each year. It started as Open Access Day in 2007 and has …Continue Reading