Open Access Week is a yearly, international event that brings the scholarly community together in the hopes of making Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research. Every year has new theme and this year the theme is Who Owns Our Knowledge? which obviously hits home given our current moment in time. The theme prompts us to reflect on "not only who has access to education and research but on how knowledge is created and shared, where it has come from, and whose voices are recognized and valued.”
A great way to participate is to join the final session of the Duke University Library's online workshop series on Open Access Publishing in the Sciences, happening Thursday, October 30 from 3:30–4:30 PM. This session will cover author's copyright, journal choice, and open access.
👉 Register here to attend
Other ways to learn more during Open Access week at Duke include exploring these resources:
- 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. You can deposit 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.
- Learn about your open access options at Duke including publishing your next article without APC charges in either Cambridge University Press journals or either BMJ Case Reports or BMJ Open Quality.
- Sharing your data, documentation, and software code through the Duke Research Data Repository.
- Making sure articles funded by NIH grants and contracts are compliant with the updated NIH Public Access Policy.
- Considering 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: Open Access.
Need help? Our librarians can assist PIs, authors and other staff with their questions about publishing open access. Email us at medical-librarian@duke.edu, or chat with us online. We are happy to set up a Zoom consult or training session.