Post written by Jason Boczar
During the last full week of October each year, members of the research community come together for Open Access Week. Open Access Week is a time to look at the future and, in order to maintain its relevancy, it is important to continually discuss and evaluate OA’s progress toward making research freely available across the world. One area that has always been at the forefront of OA is the removal of price barriers and One way that a researcher can help eliminate price barriers is by depositing a version of their research manuscript in an institutional repository. This is called Green Open Access.
At USF, the Libraries have been supporting OA since 2007 when it helped publish the OA journal Numeracy (https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/numeracy/). Since then, our institutional repository, Digital Commons @ USF, has helped to publish over 20 OA journals. Articles in these journals are free for readers, bypassing the paywalls that are common with the big, commercial publishers. USF has also worked hard to support other OA efforts by utilizing the repository for OA textbooks, conferences and events, and other faculty publications.
To learn more, check out the full article on our Digital Dialogs blog here.