Open Access (OA) Week is a great reason for everyone to learn more about the many benefits of Open Access and discuss all things open access with friends and colleagues. This year’s theme, Community over Commercialization, encourages a “candid conversation about which approaches to open scholarship prioritize the best interests of the public and the academic community, and which do not.”
This idea echoes the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science that calls for the prevention of “inequitable extraction of profit from publicly funded scientific activities” and instead supports “non-commercial publishing models and collaborative publishing models with no article processing charges.”
To celebrate Open Access week at Duke, consider:
- Publishing your next article in a PLOS journal. Duke Libraries have a 2-year pilot institutional partnership with PLOS to enable Duke authors to freely publish in PLOS with no article processing fees! For more information on this agreement, see our guide on Open Access Options at Duke.
- Negotiating your author rights when publishing.
- Fully participating in Duke's OA Policy which applies to all Duke faculty members and provides Duke a license to make scholarly articles authored by Duke faculty freely available via DukeSpace, a Duke University Libraries repository.
- Sharing your data, documentation, and software code through the Duke Research Data Repository.
- Depositing your scholarly outputs through Scholars@Duke. This site has a tool to help you determine if the journal has provided you with the rights to do this.
- Ensuring articles funded by NIH grants and contracts are compliant with the NIH Public Access Policy.
- Sharing your pre-published manuscript on a pre-print server. To learn more about pre-prints, visit the ASAPbio Preprint Resource Center.
- Becoming more open-access savvy by visiting our guide on Getting Published: About Open Access.
For more information about International Open Access Week, including the official hashtag #OAweek, please visit openaccessweek.org.
Need help? Our librarians can assist PIs, authors and other staff on publishing open access. Email us or chat with us online. We are happy to set up a Zoom consult or training session.