What is Open Access Week?
"OA Week" is an invaluable chance to connect the global momentum toward open sharing with the advancement of policy changes on the local level. Universities, colleges, research institutes, funding agencies, libraries, and think tanks have used Open Access Week as a platform to host faculty votes on campus open-access policies, to issue reports on the societal and economic benefits of Open Access, to commit new funds in support of open-access publication, and more.
"Community over Commercialization"
The theme of International Open Access Week for 2024 will continue with last year’s focus on “Community over Commercialization.” This theme contributed to a growing recognition of the need to prioritize approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the public and the academic community. Taking the unprecedented step to build on this theme for a second year highlights the importance of this conversation and presents the opportunity to turn more of these deliberations into collective action.
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How Does CUL Support Open Access?
Individual scholars, institutions, and organizations around the world have been celebrating Open Access Week since 2007. Here are several ways the Cornell University Library supports Open Access throughout the year:
- eCommons is our open access repository that provides long-term access to Cornell-related digital content, including documents, research papers, images, data, code and software, electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), and more.
- Take a look at our Open Access Publishing guide to learn more about open access!
- We provide the following resources for open access scholarship publishing
- We create, manage and support persistent identifiers (PIDs) that make research and scholarship more findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR).
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We provide consultations, training, and educational resources on topics such as Author Rights, Copyright, Fair Use, Publishing agreements, Open Educational Resources (OER), Self-Archiving / Self-Deposit in a repository, and more!
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Events Celebrating Open Access Week 2024!
Open Access Week is an international event and there are many online sessions open to all. For a full list of events visit:
https://www.openaccessweek.org/events
Here are some selections, including events hosted by Cornell University Library:
Monday, October 21
1:00pm - 2:00pm: In Conversation with Open Mind, a No-fee Open Access Journal in Cognitive Science Online Event - Registration Required
In celebration of International Open Access Week 2024, please join us for a conversation with Open Mind, MIT Press, MIT Libraries, and Harvard Library. Although a young journal in the field, Open Mind has a history of leading the field in open access publishing. With funding from the MIT Libraries the MIT Press moved Open Mind to a diamond open access publishing model in 2022, eliminating all article processing fees for scholars and providing free access for readers and researchers alike. Building on these efforts, Open Mind will be cofunded by Harvard Library and MIT Libraries now through 2027. Open Mind is the first journal to be supported by the Harvard Open Journals Program, announced earlier this year to advance and sustain no-fee open access scholarly publishing. For this conversation, panelists will discuss the journal's flip to no-fee OA, stabilizing and sustaining the journal through cooperative funding, the benefits and challenges of no-fee OA publishing-and why it is worth pursuing.
Free and open to the public. Available online via Zoom. Registration required.
Tuesday, October 22
12:00pm - 2:00pm: Talk to an Expert @ Klarman Hall Atrium In-Person Event
Find our table in the Klarman Atrium. We can answer questions about open access publishing, your rights as an author, and how we support OA at Cornell University.
Thursday, October 24
12:00pm-1:00pm: Hachette v. Internet Archive Webinar CUL Employees Only
Closed Event. All CUL employees are invited to join a Copyright First Responders New York (CFR NY)-hosted info session with Kyle K. Courtney, Harvard Library's Director of Copyright and Information Policy, to get a debrief on the Hachette v. Internet Archive decision about CDL, ruling that Internet Archive's Open Libraries program was not a fair use.
1:00pm - 2:00pm: CUL Task Force on Investment in Sustainable Scholarship Update Online Event - More Information
The Task Force on Investment in Sustainable Scholarship for Cornell was convened last year to propose strategic directions in various areas of scholarly communication. Co-chairs Jim Del Rosso and Kizer Walker will give a brief progress report on the work of the Task Force and present a set of high-level sustainable scholarship principles drafted by the group for discussion during the talk.
3:00pm - 2:00pm: Rereading a Heroic Legacy: How AIDS Built the LGBT Equality Movement Online Event - Registration Required
In celebration of Open Access Week, the University of Chicago Library will host a webinar on October 24 featuring author John-Manuel Andriote discussing why he chooses to prioritize community over commercialization by granting open access to his book, Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America. To mark the book’s 25th anniversary, Andriote as the rightsholder has chosen to turn Victory Deferred into an open access book for anyone around the world. He explains, “The value of Victory Deferred to the LGBT and broader American community—in its many accounts and insights from firsthand interviews with heroes and pioneers in the HIV-AIDS epidemic and the LGBT equality movement—exceeds my own commercial interests in the book.” Please join us for a discussion of why open access to an award-winning title matters societally and intellectually, especially in the face of continuing oppression against the fight for equality.
Free and open to the public. Available online via Zoom. Registration required.
Friday, October 25
12:00pm - 2:00pm: Talk to an Expert @ Mann Library (Lobby) In-Person Event
Find our table in the Mann Library lobby. We can answer questions about open access publishing, your rights as an author, and how we support OA at Cornell University.