In October 2015, CUA Libraries hosted three events on open access. The video presentation for the second event is now available. Terry Owen, Digital Scholarship Librarian at UMD presented on the work he has done to build the Digital Repository for the University of Maryland, DRUM. See the CUA Libraries Institutional Repository at Digital Collections. Read More

During October 2015 the CUA University Libraries hosted three events to start people talking about open access. How Open Access Benefits Faculty and Research; Open Access & Institutional Repositories; and Scholarly Publishing & the Open Access Ecosystem. Rikk Mulligan, ARL provided overview slides and panel moderation for our third event; read the blog post from Read More

University communities add to open access scholarship by building their own institutional repositories. During Open Access Week 2015, CUA University Libraries hosted Terry Owen, Digital Scholarship Librarian at University of Maryland Libraries.  Mr. Owen shared the history and experiences of building DRUM, the institutional repository at UMD. See the presentation here. Kevin Gunn, CUA Coordinator of Read More

Shades of open access – know your Gold OA and Green OA #openaccesscua #gwu G. Henry — (@KMH_nowinVA) October 13, 2015   CUA hosted Dr. Steven Lerman, Provost and Geneva Henry, University Librarian from George Washington University today as keynote speakers on Open Access. Kevin B. Gunn, CUA Coordinator of Religious Studies and Humanities Services Read More

The questions and conversations about open access (OA) have been happening for over a decade. Open Access was first codified in the Budapest Open Access Initiative in 2002. Open Access now exists as a “mix of fully open access publishers, hybrid publishers who offer some open access titles, and publishers who provide open access articles Read More

Please join us for a series of programs marking OPEN FOR COLLABORATION KEYNOTE ADDRESS: How Open Access Benefits Faculty + Research Tuesday, October 13 • 11:00 AM • Great Room A, Edward J. Pryzbyla University Center Learn about the experiences at universities that have adopted an open access policy. Dr. Steven Lerman, Provost and Executive Read More

The scholarly ecosystem gets more complicated every day. As this graphic depicts- click for larger size –  there are new tools being used by researchers every day to discover, access, and use scholarly research. Until the Open Access movement gains ground, most researchers are beholden to content providers, services, and academic libraries for their access to Read More

There should be a course for this! Open Access does not mean free. The Public Library of Science (PLoS) defines Open Access as “unrestricted access and unrestricted reuse.” The Open Access movement founding is often attributed to the Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002) and Peter Suber has written and presented in detail about Open Access. Read More

Open access and social networking readings seem to be coalescing around the “idea” of reading carefully! The Pew Research Center documents that usage of social media is increasing.  Two other articles question whether social media or open access have any impact on scholarly communications. Social Media and Its Impact on Medical Research by Phil Davis Read More

The PLoS One  report published September 26, 2014, outlining new data sharing policies, infrastructure and tools indicates that it is good to share. NIH Prodding Makes Data Sharing More Common, Survey Finds Report: “Codifying Collegiality: Recent Developments in Data Sharing Policy in the Life Sciences” ByGenevieve Pham-Kanter, Darren E. Zinner, and Eric G. Campbell published in Read More