The UNL Libraries are sponsoring activities during Open Access Week (Oct 25 – 31) to bring awareness to students and faculty about the importance of open access resources, publishing, and data, and how we can support open scholarship. This year’s theme is Community Over Commercialization.
Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of open access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make open access a new norm in scholarship and research.
Most sessions are online and there is no registration necessary. Review details closely, at least one session requires registration and another is offered in-person/hybrid. For all the details, visit the Libraries’ Open Access website.
Friday, October 25
Prepare Your Data for Openness, 12:00–1:00 PM, Zoom (link given to registrants); register at https://unl.libcal.com/calendar/workshops/oa-data-24
Adopting open data practices can improve collaboration, safeguard data, and help researchers get ahead of data sharing requirements from funders and publishers. Data sharing and transparency can benefit science and increase researcher impact. But what does it take to make data genuinely open? This presentation by Scout Calvert will provide strategies for meaningfully open data, offer choices in data sharing, describe some limitations of openness, and help researchers get a jump start preparing data for openness.
Monday, October 28
Questions You Have Always Wanted to Ask Journal Editors . . . Answered, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 PM, Peterson Room (LLS 221) and Zoom, https://unl.zoom.us/j/91200041831 (no registration required)
Facilitator: Sue Ann Gardner, UNL Scholarly Communications Librarian
Panelists: Isabel Cheesman, Richard Graham, Silvana Martini, and Kara Mitchell Viesca
Join four editors of academic journals to discuss some of the issues they deal with in their editing work. The session will be a directed conversation between the attendees and panelists and will include a thread relating to open access concerns.
Drop-in Session: Open Science, 12:30–1:30 p.m., Place: Zoom, https://unl.zoom.us/j/95098402981?pwd=PchczG8wisbRN1eBOUOQzu5jCnaOBb.1 (no registration required)
Facilitator: Kiyomi Deards
Do you have questions about open access in STEM? Join us to ask about OA educational resources, data, and publishing in your area of STEM. We can also discuss issues in OA sustainability and how OA publishing and resource creation can increase your scholarly reputation and research impact.
Tuesday, October 29
Drop-in Session: Open Publishing, 12:30–1:30 p.m., Zoom, https://unl.zoom.us/j/99989304279 (no registration required)
Facilitator: Sue Ann Gardner
Do you have questions about open access publishing? Drop in and ask about selecting a journal, open access licenses, distributing your work in repositories, orcids, dois, or anything else related to open publishing.
Wednesday, October 30
Reviewing Your Syllabus through the Lens of “Open,” 10:30–11:30 a.m., Witt Room (LLS 224); registration not required, but a link is provided: https://unl.libcal.com/event/13208804
Join librarians Catherine Fraser Riehle and Melissa Gomis for a workshop focused on reviewing course syllabi with an eye to required and recommended course materials. Attendees will learn about and have time to experiment with tools and strategies for finding and integrating openly licensed and other no- and low-cost course materials relevant to their course content and teaching and learning goals.
Drop-in Session: OA Publishing Agreements at the University of Nebraska, 12:30–1:30 p.m., Zoom, https://unl.zoom.us/j/3942568457?omn=95294358319 (registration not required)
Did you know that UNL Libraries has agreements with a number of major academic publishers that enable UNL authors to publish open access articles at no cost or for a discounted fee? Join David Macaulay, electronic resources librarian, to learn more about these agreements and how to take advantage of them.
Thursday, October 31
Drop-in Session: Open Educational Resources, 10:00–11:00 a.m., Zoom, https://unl.zoom.us/my/cfriehle (registration not required)
Curious or have questions about open educational resources (OER)? Join teaching and learning librarian Catherine Fraser Riehle anytime during this drop-in session to ask questions or hear about finding OER relevant to your course(s), adapting existing OER, or authoring your own OER.
More details at: https://libraries.unl.edu/open-access-week/