Keep your eyes and ears open in October for all things Open Access -- International Open Access Week is October 21-27, 2024! This global event has been celebrated since 2007 (first as Open Access Day) with the theme this year continuing the call to put “Community over Commercialization” and asking us to prioritize approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the public and the academic community. For more information about International Open Access Week, please visit openaccessweek.org. The official hashtag of Open Access Week is #OAweek.
To celebrate Open Access week at Duke, consider:
- Negotiating your author rights when publishing.
- Becoming more open-access savvy by visiting our guide on Getting Published: Open Access.
- 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 in PLOS for no article processing fees (through December 2024), Cambridge University Press journals, and BMJ Case Reports and 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 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.
- Visit the Medical Center Library and pick up an Open Access Button at our front desk!
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!