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Open access is a new normal in scholarly publishing, where scholarly writings are available free online, with limited or no copyright restrictions, allowing authors to retain the rights to their work. International Open Access Week is an annual event that takes place the last week in October. The UCSB Library will be holding a series of events for Open Access week. Find out more here!
Open access (OA) is a new normal in scholarly publishing, where scholarly writings are available free online, with limited or no copyright restrictions, allowing authors to retain the rights to their work, including the right to circulate their scholarship widely through their own networks, without permission from the publisher. International Open Access Week is an annual event that takes place the last week in October. The UCSB Library will be holding a series of events for Open Access week. Information about this events follows:
Talk: Care of the Self, Open Access, and Alternative Career Paths in the (More) Public Humanities (highly applicable to graduate students)
Wednesday October 24, 4:00pm. Instruction and Training Room 1575, 1st Floor Ocean Side
Considering an alternative to the traditional PhD tenure track of teaching, research, and service? Scholar-publishers Eileen Joy and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei will discuss their training and careers as scholars in the humanities and social sciences, working both within and outside of traditional university spaces; and their reasons for choosing to run an independent, academic press together while also pursuing their individual scholarly and art-practice projects.
Roundtable: Spatial Data Discovery at UCSB: Future Directions
Wednesday October 24, 11:00am. Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory, 2nd Floor Mountain Side.
This roundtable discussion, facilitated by Sara Lafia (Center for Spatial Studies) and Jon Jablonski (Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory), will discuss barriers to spatial data discovery; explore opportunities for broadening access to spatial research data; discuss challenges of opening access to spatial data across its lifecycle; and will conclude with proposed future directions.
Talk and film screening: UC Journal Publisher Negotiations and Access to Journals: An Update on Negotiating Journal Agreements at UC: A Call to Action, followed by a screening of the film Paywall: The Business of Scholarship
Thursday October 25, 4:00pm (talk) and 5:15pm (film). Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory, 2nd Floor Mountain Side,
University Librarian Kristin Antelman will provide an update on current negotiations between UC libraries and a major publisher. The OA202O Initiative and developing UCSB's OA roadmap will also be discussed.
Open Access Week Information Table
Monday-Friday, October 22-26, 12:00-1pm. Library Paseo
Drop by for information on open access publishing opportunities, UC's open access policies, eScholarship, the UC Publication Management System, the UCSB scholarly publishing discussion list, 15-minute presentations on academic publishing, one-on-one consultations, and related services. Or just stop by to grab a scholarly communication brochure and or some publisher swag to go.
Find out more information here.