Open Access Week 2023

UW-Madison Panel on Open Access: Community Over Commercialization

Join us for a moderated panel discussion with UW-Madison scholars on their experiences with open access, open research, and this year’s Open Access Week theme, “Community Over Commercialization” on Monday, October 23, 1-2pm in the Chemistry North Tower, Room 2401. Light snacks and refreshments available.

Panelists Theresa Delgadillo (English & Chican@/Latin@ Studies), Eric Hoyt (Media & Cultural Studies) , and Dave O’Connor (Pathology & Laboratory Medicine) will explore values of openness and the challenges and opportunities of centering community and scholarly controlled infrastructure.

Open in Action at UW-Madison

Publishing Open Access

Open Access & Author Rights Support Service is provided by the libraries to help authors take an active role in managing their copyrights and ensuring their work can be used in the ways they choose. Librarians can help authors understand the implications of publishing contracts, how to navigate open access fees, implications of associating their work with Creative Commons licenses, and more.

Subsidizing Open Acess Publishing for some publishers and publications are being subsidized by the libraries in order to reduce author publishing charges (APCs) for UW-Madison-affiliated authors.

OVCRGE Publishing Subvention Fund is open to tenure-track faculty of any rank to provide additional levels of support for open-access monograph publishing.

MINDS@UW is UW-Madison’s institutional repository, providing long-term preservation and access to the creative and scholarly output of the University of Wisconsin. MINDS@UW is open access; items deposited in MINDS@UW are publicly available for download and use. UW-Madison faculty, staff, and students are welcomed to deposit research materials including  articles, monographs, technical reports, conference papers and presentations, and datasets. 

Open Education

Open Educational Resources support is available through the libraries in collaboration with instructional technology units across the university.

Pressbooks is a platform for authoring and sharing online textbooks that can include audio, video, and interactivity. It allows authors to create open textbooks or other open learning materials.

Open Data

Research Data Services (RDS) is a campus-wide organization that provides the UW-Madison research community with the tools and resources to store, analyze and share data. We provide research data management consultations, training, and support in an effort to improve reproducibility across the research life cycle and to adequately describe data (metadata) for sharing, discoverability and reuse

Dryad is an open-access data repository where you can publish and publicly share your research data. It was started by a community of researchers and is used by researchers worldwide to meet funder and publisher mandates for data publication. UW-Madison’s membership with Dryad, which was pursued in partnership between the Libraries and DoIT, allows for free depositing for UW-Madison researchers.

MINDS@UW is UW-Madison’s institutional repository, providing long-term preservation and access to the creative and scholarly output of the University of Wisconsin. MINDS@UW is open access; items deposited in MINDS@UW are publicly available for download and use. UW-Madison faculty, staff, and students are welcomed to deposit research materials including datasets.