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. The UNL Libraries are sponsoring activities during Open Access Week 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. For more information about Open Access, visit our website.
Friday, October 25
Time: 12:00–1:00
Place: Zoom (link given to registrants); register at https://unl.libcal.com/calendar/workshops/oa-data-24
Title: Prepare Your Data for Openness
Presenter: Scout Calvert
Description: 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 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
Time: 11:00–12:00
Place: Peterson Room (LLS 221) and Zoom, https://unl.zoom.us/j/91200041831 (no registration required)
Title: Questions You Have Always Wanted to Ask Journal Editors . . . Answered
Facilitator: Sue Ann Gardner, UNL Scholarly Communications Librarian
Panelists: Isabel Cheesman, Richard Graham, Silvana Martini, and Kara Mitchell Viesca
Intended audience: Faculty and graduate students
Description: 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.
Time: 12:30–1:30
Place: Zoom, https://unl.zoom.us/j/95098402981?pwd=PchczG8wisbRN1eBOUOQzu5jCnaOBb.1 (no registration required)
Title: Drop-in Session: Open Science
Facilitator: Kiyomi Deards
Description: 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
Time: 12:30–1:30
Place: Zoom, https://unl.zoom.us/j/99989304279 (no registration required)
Title: Drop-in Session: Open Publishing
Facilitator: Sue Ann Gardner
Description: 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
Time: 10:30–11:30
Place: Witt Room (LLS 224); registration not required, but a link is provided: https://unl.libcal.com/event/13208804
Title: Reviewing Your Syllabus through the Lens of “Open”
Presenters: Catherine Fraser Riehle and Melissa Gomis
Description: 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.
Time: 12:30–1:30
Place: Zoom, https://unl.zoom.us/j/3942568457?omn=95294358319 (registration not required)
Title: Drop-in Session: OA Publishing Agreements at the University of Nebraska
Presenter: Dave Macaulay
Description: 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
Time: 10:00–11:00
Place: Zoom, https://unl.zoom.us/my/cfriehle (registration not required)
Title: Drop-in Session: Open Educational Resources
Facilitator: Catherine Fraser Riehle
Description: 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/