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 Oct. 25-31 to bring awareness to faculty and students about the importance of open access resources, publishing, and data, and how they can support open scholarship. This year’s theme is Community Over Commercialization.
Most sessions are virtual; some are also in person. Registration not required unless noted. Complete details are available at the Libraries’ Open Access website.
- Prepare Your Data for Openness Oct. 25, 1-2 p.m., Zoom – 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? 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. Register online.
- Questions You Have Always Wanted to Ask Journal Editors…Answered Oct. 28, 11 a.m.-12 p.m, Peterson Room (LLS 221) and Zoom – Sue Ann Gardner moderates a panel of academic journal editors — Isabel Cheesman, Richard Graham, Silvana Martini, and Kara Mitchell Viesca — 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 Oct. 28, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Zoom – Kiyomi Deards facilities a Q&A about open access educational resources, data, and publishing in STEM. Additional discussions will include issues in open access sustainability and how open access publishing and resource creation can increase your scholarly reputation and research impact.
- Drop-in Session: Open Publishing Oct. 29, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Zoom – Sue Ann Gardner facilitates a Q&A about anything related to open access publishing. Selecting a journal, open access licenses, distributing your work in repositories, Open Researcher and Contributor IDs, and digital object identifiers will be covered.
- Reviewing Your Syllabus through the Lens of Open Oct. 30, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Witt Room (LLS 224) and Zoom – Catherine Fraser Riehle and Melissa Gomis will focus on reviewing course syllabi with an eye toward required and recommended course materials. 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 course content and teaching and learning goals.
- Drop-in Session: OA Publishing Agreements at the University of Nebraska Oct. 30, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Zoom – 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.
- Drop-in Session: Open Educational Resources Oct. 31, 10-11 a.m., Zoom – Teaching and learning librarian Catherine Fraser Riehle facilitates a Q&A on anything about open access resources. Learn about finding OER relevant to your courses, adapting existing OER, or authoring your own OER.
More details at: https://libraries.unl.edu/open-access-week/