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Open access (OA) refers to:
The label “open access” is used to describe processes, business models, license terms, content platforms, and information resources. The use of the label can be inconsistent and misleading. This site and the external resources referred to attempt to provide some context and information to help members of our university community understand the issues and make informed decisions about navigating their rights as authors and users of academic information.
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. In considering how best to support a shift to more open access, we must recognize that scholars, students, commercial publishers, university publishers, academic institutions, emerging tech companies, taxpayers, and governments all approach the opportunities afforded by the digital environment with their own set of pressures and priorities.
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.
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.
Open Access & Author Rights Support Service. 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.