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International Open Access Week 2021, October 25 – 31, is a global event promoting access to knowledge, highlighting Open activities, and promoting actions that will help make more scholarly and educational materials freely available to teachers, learners, researchers, and the public.
To learn more visit the International Open Access Week website.
Open Accessrefers to:
By removing financial and legal barriers, Open Access enables teachers, scholars, and learners to find academic information and to use that information to make new discoveries, create new works, and advance human knowledge.
The concepts of Open Educational Resources, Open Data, Open Source Software, and Open Research Practices share this core idea that Open means “free to use + permission to modify, share, or reuse,” and allows more people to benefit from more information than ever before.
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 articles, monographs, technical reports, conference papers and presentations, datasets, audio, images and videos.
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.
Open Educational Resources support is available through the libraries in collaboration with instructional technology units across the university.
OVCRGE Publishing Subvention Fund is open to tenure-track faculty of any rank to provide additional levels of support for open-access monograph publishing.
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.
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
The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center (UWDCC) was formed to be the utility that digitizes, provides access to, and maintains digital projects. Since that time, the UWDCC has digitized over two million objects, developed and implemented technologies to enhance digital collections, and partnered with a variety of content providers to create illustrative and valuable digital resources.
Interested in learning more about Open Access? Inspired to take action to help open up access to research and scholarly information, in your own work, your discipline, or across academia and society? Here are some great places to get started:
Thanks to Matt Ruen and Grand Valley State University Libraries for the inspiration and ideas for this page. OA Week at GVSU.