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Thursday, October 23
Orchard View Room, Wisconsin Institute of Discovery (map)
12PM – 1:15PM
Register Here (free!)
Join campus researchers for lunch and an engaging discussion on the future of publishing and participating in open scholarship. Attendees will share their experiences and questions when it comes to publishing open access, sharing data, and navigating funder policies. Part of the UW-Madison Libraries Open Access Week 2025 programming, this event is an opportunity to connect, learn, and inspire each other toward more open research practices. To help frame our conversation, we invite attendees to reflect on this year’s International Open Access Week theme.
All UW-Madison affiliated researchers are invited. Lunch will be provided. Limited to 50 registrants. The Orchard View Room is accessible via the elevator near Aldo’s Cafe within the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery Building.
If you require any accessibility accommodations to attend or participate in this event, please let us know by emailing Ariel Andrea. Requests for sign-language interpreters, real-time captioning, Braille or electronic documents should be made at least two weeks before the event. We will attempt to fulfill requests made after this date but cannot guarantee they will be met.
Have a question about your author rights, retaining copyright, or publishing open access? Want to know more about UW-Madison’s Open Access Agreements with publishers or find out if they can benefit your work? Schedule an appointment with our expert librarians!
Our Librarians can efficiently guide you through the process of creating your ORCID account and connecting it to your research, or show you how to get the most out of an existing account.
ORCID provides a unique, persistent digital identifier (ORCID iD) for researchers to distinguish themselves from others. Many publishers and funding agencies require authors to use an ORCID iD when submitting a paper or grant. ORCID is a non-profit, community driven organization that enables the reliable attribution of authors and contributor.
Upcoming Workshop: Publish without Perishing – Knowing your Author Rights and Obligations: Online, October 20, 4-5PM; Publishing your scientific research article can seem like a daunting task. Let expert librarians help you with the process. This workshop will answer common questions about copyright, publisher agreements, and funder requirements so that you can make the publishing decisions that’s right for you.
UW-Madison Open Awards: The UW-Madison Open Awards are sponsored by the Data Science Institute, Open Source Program Office, and the Libraries along with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The awards recognize and celebrate those using open practices in their work and who are inspiring others to do the same. The awards also recognize that Open practices vary across academic communities including: open access publishing, open data, open education, open source software and hardware, open science, and more.
Open Access & Author Rights Support Service: The Libraries provide free support 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.
Library Support for Open Access Publishing: Some publishers and publications are being subsidized by the libraries in order to reduce or eliminate publishing charges (APCs) for UW-Madison-affiliated authors.
OVCRGE Publishing Subvention Fund: An open to tenure-track faculty of any rank to provide additional levels of support for open-access monograph publishing.
MINDS@UW: 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.
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