Open Access Week 2016: OA Connects: Home

What's Open Access?

• Open Access (OA) is the free, immediate, online availability of scholarship.
• Often, OA scholarship is also free of accompanying copyright or licensing reuse restrictions, promoting further innovation.
• OA removes barriers between readers and scholarly publication, making it easier for everyone to find, use, cite, and build upon knowledge and ideas.
• OA connects readers to information, and scholars to emerging scholarship and other authors whom they can collaborate with or whose work they can build upon. 

Open Access Week @ UC Berkeley

• OA Week 2016 is a global effort to highlight the connections that OA makes possible.
• At UC Berkeley, the University Library has put together exciting programming demonstrating the network of OA connections and implications--with workshops covering everything from how your dissertation will be published, to how you can publish your data for maximum impact, or how your digital humanities project will be preserved for future generations.
• We hope to see you at these exciting programs. To register, please use the links in the Schedule below.
• You can also talk to a Library Expert from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. on Oct. 24-28 at:
  • North Gate Hall (Mon, Tue)
  • Anthropology and Art Practice Building (Wed - Fri)
• Event attendance and table visits earn raffle tickets for a prize drawing on October 28!

MONDAY, OCTOBER 24

DIGITAL HUMANITIES FOR TOMORROW

2-4 pm, Doe Library, Room 303

Join a conversation among DH researchers and stakeholders about the future of your research. How are you currently preserving (or not) your own DH work? How do you maintain it? What will happen to your work after you move on? What does DH preservation look like? What is most important for you in ensuring your work is available to forthcoming scholars? How can the University Library and DH group support your goals? Space at this special DH Salon is limited, so please register in advance. Presented by the UC Berkeley Library and Scott Paul McGinnis, PhD Candidate in History. Refreshments provided by the UC Berkeley Library.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 24

COPYRIGHT AND YOUR DISSERTATION

4-5 pm, Sproul Hall, Room 309

• Discover a workflow for addressing third-party content in your dissertations.
• Consider how best to share your work.
• Understand the intellectual property rights you’ll have as an author.

Refreshments provided by the UC Berkeley Library & Graduate Division.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25

PUBLISHING YOUR DISSERTATION

2-3 pm, Sproul Hall, Room 309

Learn what happens once you submit your dissertation, how to shape your dissertation's impact through open access, and go about publishing your first book. Panelists:

• Reed Malcolm, Executive Editor at The University of California Press
• Katie Fortney, Copyright Policy & Education Officer at the California Digital Library
• Michael Wolfe, Executive Director of Authors Alliance

Panel presented by the UC Berkeley Library. Refreshments provided by Authors Alliance.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27

INCREASE AND TRACK YOUR SCHOLARLY IMPACT

2-3 pm, Sproul Hall, Room 309

Discover strategies and tips for preparing and promoting your scholarship, and the best ways to monitor and increase your citations and success. Learn how to: Understand and leverage traditional and emerging scholarly metrics. Create unique author identifiers. Use scholarly networking tools. Choose reputable open access journals and publishing options. Deposit your work in eScholarship (UC institutional repository). Participate in open access article and monograph funding opportunities. Refreshments provided by the UC Berkeley Library.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28

CURRENT TOPICS IN DATA PUBLISHING

2-3 pm, Doe Library, Room 190 (BIDS)

Panel presentations address:

• Why should you publish your data?
• What tools can you use for publishing data so that your research is transparent and reproducible?
• How can you publish data that have access restrictions?
• What challenges do researchers face when publishing their data?
• How should you license the data you publish?
• How can the University Library and D-Lab support your data publishing needs?

Presented by the UC Berkeley Library and the D-Lab. Refreshments provided by the UC Berkeley Library.

UC Berkeley Library 

Scholarly Communication Expertise Group:

Rachael Samberg, Chair
Scholarly Communication Officer
rsamberg@berkeley.edu

Judy Deliramich
Human Resources

Debbie Jan
Life Sciences & Health Sciences Division

Liladhar Pendse
Social Sciences Division

Margaret Phillips
Social Sciences Division

Stacy Reardon
Arts & Humanities Division

Jesse Silva
Social Sciences Division

Sam Teplitzky
Engineering & Physical Sciences Division

Jamie Wittenberg
Research Data Management