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Open Access Week 2024 – Community over Commercialization

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UC San Diego authors publish #OA, in every way!

Check out these examples of open access publications by faculty, alumni, librarians, and students: data, research articles, journals, books, and book chapters, and conference presentations.

Adapted from Geisel Library CCBY 2.0 by Alejandro Mallea on Flickr

@Scripps_Ocean faculty and alumni authors publish OA

This highly cited #NASA funded paper and supporting research data by @Scripps_Ocean faculty and alumni authors is publicly available on multiple OA repositories including the UC’s OA IR eScholarship and UC San Diego’s data collections. #OAweek #openaccess

  • Adusumilli, S., Fricker, H., Medley, B., Padman, L., & Siegfried, M. (2020). Interannual variations in meltwater input to the Southern Ocean from Antarctic ice shelves. Nature Geoscience, 13(9), 616-620. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0616-z Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6zp1r90c 
  • Adusumilli, Susheel; Fricker, Helen A.; Medley, Brooke C.; Padman, Laurie; Siegfried, Matthew R. (2020). Data from: Interannual variations in meltwater input to the Southern Ocean from Antarctic ice shelves. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J04Q7SHT
  • Adusumilli S, Fricker HA, Medley B, Padman L, Siegfried MR. Interannual variations in meltwater input to the Southern Ocean from Antarctic ice shelves. Nat Geosci. 2020 Sep;13(9):616-620. doi: 10.1038/s41561-020-0616-z. Epub 2020 Aug 10. PMID: 32952606; PMCID: PMC7500482.

Humanities scholars value open access publishing

Literature professor, Lisa Lampert-Weissig, was thankful for the “efforts of many talented and dedicated librarians” in ensuring she had access to source material for her recently published open access book, Instrument of Memory: Encounters with the Wandering Jew.

https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/tx31qm53h#stats

Professor Lampert-Weissig brought the peer-reviewed society journal from print to online and open access. New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession is a forum by and for twenty-first-century medievalists and others interested in the Middle Ages. The current call for papers is focused on the topic of “access” and welcomes essays on topics related to both pedagogy and profession, broadly conceived, written from a wide range of contributors, including primary, secondary school teachers and independent scholars. The journal also aims to be geographically inclusive in order to provide a global perspective on these topics.

Medieval Studies cannot survive and thrive unless we create and support access. The pandemic and its aftermath not only underlined problems of access, but also provided us with some possible solutions. How can we, as a profession, ensure that students outside a few well-funded institutions have access to our field? How can we make our field more inclusive both within our own institutions and globally? What prevents students and faculty from studying the Middle Ages and how can these obstacles be challenged? What kinds of projects and collaborations can create and maintain access?

@ucsdlibrary librarians are OA authors and journal editors too!

  • Our World History and Cultures Librarian, Dr. Sonboldel, is the editor of the newly open access journal, Mela Notes. MELA Notes is the official journal of the Middle East Librarians’ Association, covering a wide range of contributions in the field of Middle Eastern Studies. The journal has been in publication since 1973.
  • See also this open access collection of research and scholarship produced by UC San Diego librarians and library staff https://escholarship.org/uc/ucsd_libraries

Undergraduate OA research journal and paper series sponsored by the Undergraduate Research Hub

The Undergraduate Research Hub (URH) empowers undergraduates seeking to become integrated in the UC San Diego research community with the skills to be successful in a post-baccalaureate career. URH’s cooperative staff creates an environment for students to engage in research and leverage resources to maintain long-term relationships through high impact practices. URH welcomes students from diverse backgrounds seeking to maximize their student experiences and future opportunities. https://escholarship.org/uc/ucsd_aep

Open access benefits authors and readers

Professor Lilly Irani’s interdisciplinary research crosses digital and geographic boundaries and is often supported by funders that require public access to the research publications. Dr. Irani makes it a practice to provide open access to all forms of her publications whenever possible and benefits as evidenced by high citation counts to her publications deposited in the University of California’s open access institutional repository and publishing platform, eScholarship.

Irani, L., & Silberman, M. (2013). Turkopticon. UC San Diego. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2470742 Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/10c125z3

Are you a UC San Diego author and have questions about #openaccess or want to make your publications more accessible and visible? Contact Scholarly Communications Services at the UC San Diego Library!

OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING: Opportunities for Authors

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UC San Diego Library’s 2021 Open Access Week Virtual Event

November. 3rd at 2:30-3:30 pm [PST]

Learn about open access publishing opportunities through the UC’s transformative agreements (open to UC authors) and other avenues open to all authors. 

The UC San Diego University Librarian, Erik Mitchell, will give an update on the UC Transformative Agreements and where we are in the process of increasing sustainable journal subscription access and OA publishing discounts or full-coverage for UC authors. 

Allegra Swift, UC San Diego Scholarly Communication Librarian, will discuss OA publishing avenues for authors whose chosen publishing venue or format is not covered by the UC agreements.

The event was recorded (see the Library’s YouTube channel) and transcripts and slides are shared here.

Questions? Contact Allegra Swift.

“It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.”

the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week

International OA Week 2020 at UC San Diego and Beyond

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The theme of 2020 OA Week is “Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion.” Events held around the world during the week of October 19-25 will most likely be virtual and some even open to all – which is exactly how the UC San Diego Library will produce our offerings, online and open access! While we can not meet on campus in-person, we can take the opportunity to collaborate and share across campuses.

Join us for our virtual events described below, follow #OAWeek on Twitter to see the great things happening all over the world, and follow us on Twitter @UCSDScholCom where we’ll post recorded interviews of scholars (faculty, PhD and undergraduate students) talk about OER creation, publishing #openaccess, and the student experience in sharing OA scholarship.

Open Access Week 2020 banner from SPARC

Oct. 20, 2020 from noon – 1:00pm PST

“Predatory” Publishing: Addressing Bias and Avoiding Pitfalls

An open access virtual workshop for researchers given by librarians from University of California at San Diego, Temple University, the University of California at Irvine, and the University of California at San Francisco. See this page for a longer event description. Please see this page for recordings, slides, and resources.

October 22, 2020 from noon to 1:00 pm PST 

Building Structural Equity and Inclusion: Open Educational Resources and Affordable Course Materials

An open access virtual workshop for instructors given by UC San Diego Librarians; Allegra Swift, Laura Schwartz, and Dominique Turnbow. See this page for a longer event description. Please see this page for the slides and resources from the presentation.

Openness can be a powerful tool for building more equitable systems of sharing knowledge. Rebuilding research and scholarship to be open by default presents a unique opportunity to construct a foundation that is fundamentally more equitable. Yet today, structural racism, discrimination, and exclusion are present and persistent in places where openness is a core value. As a global community, it is important to understand that the systems and spaces of the present are often built upon legacies of historic injustice and that addressing these inequities is a necessity.  

We need to examine who these spaces and systems are designed for, who is missing, who is excluded by the business models we use, and whose interests are prioritized. As we work together to rebuild these structures, we need to commit to moving from conversations to concrete commitments and to hold one another accountable for making real progress.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion must be consistently prioritized year-round and integrated into the fabric of the open community, from how our infrastructure is built to how we organize community discussions to the governance structures we use. International Open Access Week is an important opportunity to catalyze new conversations, create connections across and between communities that can facilitate this co-design, and advance progress to build more equitable foundations for opening knowledge—discussions and actions that need to be continued, year in and year out. 

SPARC 2020 News August 31, 2020

“Predatory” Publishing: Addressing Bias and Avoiding Pitfalls

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Oct. 20, 2020 from noon – 1:00pm PST

Find slides, recording, transcript here

#oaweek2020 @UCSDScholComm

An open access virtual workshop for instructors given by Librarians from University of California at San Diego (UC San Diego, Temple University, the University of California at Irvine, and the University of California at San Francisco.

“Mind the Gap,” CC BY (2.0) Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom

“Predatory” publishing, especially in the health sciences, is an ongoing concern and it is essential for researchers to be able to recognize deceptive publishing practices. It is important, though, not to oversimplify what constitutes predatory practices. While using tools like “blocked” or “approved” lists helps researchers avoid predatory publishers, these lists can reinforce power dynamics that exclude marginalized, non-western viewpoints. Come to this session to learn how to balance publishing in high quality open access journals while staying aware of the biases in scholarly publishing. This event is geared towards researchers but is open to all.

Learning Objectives:

Following this session, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the characteristics of deceptive publishing practices in order to avoid their tactics.

2. Understand the inherent and hidden biases in the publication industry in order to challenge their own assumptions.

3. Differentiate the limitations of simplistic lists of deceptive journals and publishers.

4. Assess publishing venues using reliable criteria and resources while avoiding bias.

Related UC San Diego Library research guides:

Resources for choosing and evaluating journal publishing venues : Includes the library’s evaluation tool for making values-based decisions without bias..

Resources for evaluating book publishing venues

Related research and information:

Harrison W. Inefuku. “Globalization, Open Access, and the democratization of knowledge.” Educause Review (July 2016). [open access]

Harrison W. Inefuku and Charlotte Roh. “Agents of diversity and social justice: Librarians and scholarly communication.” In Open Access and the Future of Scholarly Communication: Policy and Infrastructure, edited by Kevin L. Smith and Katherine A. Dickson. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). [open access]

Critical Race & Ethnic Studies 101 (Alamri): Privilege & Bias in Scholarly Publishing – a UC Merced Library course guide.

The Knowledge G.A.P. research and publications

Session recordings from the OA Scholarly Publishing 2020 Conference: Open Access in a time of Global Challenge

Scholarly Communication Institute 2019 projects and teams

[We’ll post slides and recordings in November 2020.]

Open Access Week 2019

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International Open Access Week

During Open Access Week, the UC San Diego Library will be kicking off our scholarly communication awareness campaign to engage the campus in issues related to knowledge production and information access. We’ll have content displayed on our digital signage as well as physical swag and fact sheets at information desks in the library. As always, contact your librarian (or us) with questions or if you are interested in taking action! Follow us on Twitter for more info or just to engage!

EVENTS AT THE UC SAN DIEGO LIBRARY

9am – 10 am on Tuesday 22 Oct 2019 in the Geisel Library Dunst Classroom: webinar “ACRL DSS Open Research Discussion Group: Open Data Activism in Search of Algorithmic Transparency: Algorithmic Awareness in Practice”

The ALA (American Library Association and its units) and the ALA-APA (Allied Professional Association) (collectively “ALA”) use the personal data you provide to the ALA to process membership, inform you of products, services, conferences, education opportunities, events and for other purposes which are within the Association’s mission. To accomplish these actions, ALA contracts with third-parties who gather and process personal data to complete interactions such as online purchases, conference registration, and fulfillment. The personal data as provided is processed and stored as a legitimate Interest to the ALA in order to fulfill your requests for information and services from ALA.

11 am – 12 pm on 22 Oct 2019 in the Geisel Library Dunst Classroom : ACRL webinar: “Open for Students and Educators: Open Educational Resources Level the Playing Field“

Open educational resources (OERs) are not usually a hard sell for students. But what about educators? How do they benefit from having access to resources that are licensed openly? And how can we, as librarians, guide faculty in adopting and adapting OERs? This free webcast will cover essential OER questions and topics, including:
• What does OER mean?
• How is OER helpful not only to students, but to educators as well?
• Locating and adapting OER (or how to interpret Creative Commons licensing attached to OERs)

9 am – 10:00 am on 24 Oct 2019 in the Biomed Library Bldg Events Room: “How the University of California Libraries Drive the Open Access Movement”

This International Open Access Week our guest, Anneliese Taylor, Head of Scholarly Communication, Library at the University of California San Francisco, joins the F1000 team to share key tactics that she and her team have deployed to promote Open Access publishing in the UC system. We’ll follow Anneliese’s presentation by opening the floor to a Q&A and also share the latest updates across F1000Research, F1000Workspace, and F1000Prime. 

OpenAIRE

Join OpenAIRE for a series of webinars (and more) during Open Access Week 2019!

The 2019 International Open Access Week will be held October 21-27, 2019. This year’s theme, “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge,” builds on the groundwork laid during last year’s focus of “Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge.”
As has become a yearly habit, OpenAIRE will organise a series of webinars during this week, highlighting OpenAIRE activities, services and tools and reaching out to the wider community with relevant talks. For registration or more info, see the OpenAIRE page. 

On the programme this year:

– Monday October 21st at 11 AM CEST: OpenAPC – cost transparency of Open Access publishing by Christoph Broschinski and Andreas Czerniak (UNIBI)
– Monday October 21st at 2 PM CEST : Research Data Management by S. Venkataraman (DCC) and Thomas Margoni (CREATe)
– Tuesday October 22nd at 10 AM CEST: Horizon 2020 Open Science Policies and beyond by Emilie Hermans (OpenAIRE)
– Friday October 25th at 11 AM CEST: ‘Plan S compliance for Open Access Journals’. Can we make it: ‘Plan S compliance for Open Access Journals – what we know so far and where we think we’re heading’ by Dominic Mitchell (DOAJ)
– Friday October 25th at 2 PM CEST: From Open Science to Inclusive Science by Paola Masuzzo

Open Access Week 2018 at UC San Diego

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Open Access Week 2018 • October 22-28 | UC San Diego Library | @UCSDScholCom #openaccessweek

ORCiD CREATE-N-UPDATE-A-THON

Register, connect, and use your researcher ID in grants, data, publications and other academic activities. Sign-up or update your ORCiD – we’ll show you how, get a cookie, and the department with the most ORCiDs wins a prize!

Tuesday, October 23  • 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Table 1: Next to Club Med and Telemedicine
Table 2: Next to the Mandeville Coffee cart
Thursday, October 25  • 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Table 3: In front of RIMAC

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PUBLISHING DECISIONS: CHOOSING PUBLICATION PATHWAYS THAT WORK FOR YOU

Wednesday, Oct. 24 • Noon – 1 p.m. • Geisel Library, Seuss Room

Find out what the UC and the UC San Diego Library offer to ease and open up your publishing opportunities. Hear from Dan Morgan, Publisher . about the latest efforts to transition to open access publishing.

Lunch will be provided so registration is required (contact us)

October 25, 2018 at 3:00pm, in the Geisel Library Seuss Room – screening of Paywall: The Business of Scholarship, directed by @jason_schmitt Chair of COMM & Media at Clarkson University.

PAYWALL: THE BUSINESS OF SCHOLARSHIP FILM SCREENING

Thursday, Oct. 25  • 3 – 5 p.m. • Geisel Library, Seuss Room

Paywall is a documentary film that investigates the need for open access to research and science. Light refreshments will be served.