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ARL Libraries Celebrate Open Access Week 2021

Last Updated on July 9, 2022, 9:44 am ET

International Open Access Week, organized by SPARC, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn about the benefits of open access, share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and help inspire wider participation in making open access a new norm in scholarship and research. The theme of International Open Access Week 2021, taking place October 25–31, is “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.”

Below is a roundup of the events and news stories from Association of Research Libraries member libraries in celebration of Open Access Week 2021. To add an event or story to this list, email commteam@arl.org.

Events | News, Blog Posts, and Resources | Other

Events

Wednesday, October 13

Washington University in St. Louis University Libraries
NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan Workshop
12–1:30 p.m. EDT, online

Wednesday, October 20

Indiana University Bloomington Libraries
Using DataCORE, Indiana University’s New Data Repository
12–1:00 p.m. EDT, online

Washington University in St. Louis University Libraries
Exploring Your Data with OpenRefine
1–2:00 p.m. EDT, online

Friday, October 22

Indiana University Bloomington Libraries
Your Journals Are Spying On You: Research Surveillance in Library Products
12–1:00 p.m. EDT, online and in-person

Washington University in St. Louis University Libraries
The Tightwad’s Guide to Open Access
1–2:00 p.m. EDT, online

Monday, October 25

UCLA Library
Open Axis: The Open Access Video Game
Monday, October 25, 9:00 a.m. PDT–Friday, October 29, 5:00 p.m. PDT, online

UIC University Library
Open Access Week Exhibit in Richard J. Daley Library
Monday, October 25–Monday, November 1

McMaster University Libraries
Mark Up the Margins at Mac: Implementing Annotation in your Course with Hypothes.is
10–11:30 a.m. EDT

McGill Library
The Future Is Open: Becoming an Open Researcher
12:00–1:30 p.m. EDT, online

University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Sharing and Promoting Your Research: How the Libraries Can Help
12:30–1:30 p.m. EDT, online

University of Colorado Boulder Libraries
PARtake: An Open Source Online Journal about Performance as Research
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. MDT, online

UCI Library
Open Access Research and Teaching – Building Sustainable Equity
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. PDT, online

UC Riverside Library
Data Publishing Made Easy with Dryad
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. PDT, online

Virginia Tech University Libraries
Open Access and Evidence Synthesis
2–3:30 p.m. EDT, online for campus community

Washington State University Libraries
Confronting Inequities in Academic Publishing
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. PDT, online for campus community

UC Santa Barbara Library
International Open Access Week Information Table
Monday, October 25–Friday, October 29, 12–1:00 p.m. PDT daily, in-person

UC Berkeley Library
Copyright and Your Dissertation
1–2:30 p.m. PDT

University of Rochester River Campus Libraries
Open Access Week: Finding Your Niche in the OA Ecosystem
4–5:00 p.m. EDT, online for campus community

UC Riverside Library
Copyright for Graduate Students and Academic Authors
2–3:00 p.m. PDT, online

UC Santa Barbara Library
Open Knowledge: Access, Infrastructures, and Educational Resources at UCSB
2:00 p.m. PDT, in-person

University of Washington Libraries
Turning Dissertations into Articles: A Case Study with the University of Nairobi and Moi University
2–3:00 p.m. PDT, online

Virginia Tech University Libraries
Open Access Forum 2021: Virginia Tech’s New Open Access Policy + Intros to Open Data and Open Educational Resources
6–8:00 p.m. EDT, online (webinar link TBA)

Tuesday, October 26

McGill Library
Publishing Data with the McGill Dataverse
10:00–10:45 a.m. EDT, online

Harvard Library
Keynote: bioRxiv & medRxiv: Communicating at the Speed of Science
11:00 a.m. EDT, online

Harvard Library
Tips and Tricks for protocols.io Power Users
12:00 p.m. EDT, online for campus community

Indiana University Bloomington Libraries
Peer Review as Relationship
12–1:00 p.m. EDT, online and in-person

University of Maryland Libraries
Breaking Down Paywalls and Building Up Equity: Open Access, Open Science, and Connections to Inclusive Knowledge
12–1:00 p.m. EDT, online

University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Our Tools and Our Values
12:00–1:00 p.m. EDT, online

McGill Library
Instructor Guide: Locating and Using Free and Open Materials for Your Course
12:00–12:45 p.m. EDT, online

Penn State University Libraries
Open Access Week: Opening Knowledge Equitably in an Inequitable System
12:00 p.m. EDT, online

Temple University Libraries
Can I Share That? Copyright and Creative Commons Licenses
12–12:30 p.m. EDT, online

The University of British Columbia Library
Open and Equitable Publishing: Get to Know ICER Press!
10–11:00 a.m. PDT, online

University of Colorado Boulder Libraries
Why Open Access Matters for the Study of Media and Human Rights
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. MDT, online

Penn Libraries
Introduction to Online Academic Profile Services
1–2:00 p.m. EDT, online

Virginia Tech University Libraries
$150,000 Available to Publish Journal Articles
2–3:30 p.m. EDT, online for campus community

UIC University Library
Open Access Publishing with INDIGO, UIC’s Institutional Repository
2–3:00 p.m. CDT, online for campus community

University of Colorado Boulder Libraries
Decentering Whiteness in Academic Knowledge Production
1–2:00 p.m. MDT, online

University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Tools for Managing Your Scholarly Identity: Building Your ORCiD Profile
3–4:00 p.m. EDT, in-person

McMaster University Libraries
Introduction to Creating Interactive Content with H5P
3–4:00 p.m. EDT

Virginia Tech University Libraries
How to Take Advantage of the University’s New Open Access Policy
3–4:00 p.m. EDT, online for campus community

UIC University Library
Scholarly Publishing: Selecting Scholarly Publishing Venues to Maximize Your Impact While Avoiding “Predatory Publishers”
3–4:00 p.m. CDT, online

UC Berkeley Library
From Dissertation to Book: Navigating the Publication Process
1–2:30 p.m. PDT

UC Riverside Library
QGIS: Building Skills with Vector Data
2–3:00 p.m. PDT, online for campus community

University of Washington Libraries
ResearchWorks: An Introduction to UW Libraries’ Institutional Repository
2–3:00 p.m. PDT, online for campus community

Wednesday, October 27

Penn Libraries
Raising the Visibility of your Scholarship through Sharing and Preprint Platforms
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. EDT, online

McMaster University Libraries
OER Showcase: Finding, Using and Creating Open Educational Resources for your Teaching and Learning
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. EDT

Cornell University Library
Thirty Years of Open Access: Challenges and Opportunities for Building Structural Equity
12–1:00 p.m. EDT, online

University of Maryland Libraries
Answering the Call: Steps We Can Take to Make Research and Scholarly Communications More Equitable and Open
12–1:00 p.m. EDT, online

UNC University Libraries
Open Access Scholarly Publication in Northern African Countries: Challenges and Opportunities
12–1:00 p.m. EDT, online

University of Colorado Boulder Libraries
Acknowledging Everyone’s Labor in Science: The Heliocentric Model of Open Science
10–11:00 a.m. MDT, online

University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries
Preparing for Sharing Your Research: Publishing and Copyright
12–1:00 p.m. CDT, online

Temple University Libraries
Make Your Courses Affordable with Open Textbooks and Open Educational Resources (OER)
1:00 p.m. EDT, online

University of Missouri Libraries
UPublish: Open Access at MU
3–4:00 p.m. EDT, online

Penn Libraries
Navigating the Sea Change: Editors and Publishers Explore Open Access
4:00–5:30 p.m. EDT, online

University of Washington Libraries
Introduction to Persistent Identifiers
1–2:00 p.m. PDT, online for campus community

UCLA Library
A Case for Creating OERs: A Journey from Learners to Creators
3–3:30 p.m. PDT, online

UCLA Library
Creating for Open: Considerations for Creators and Users of Copyrighted Works
3:30–5:00 p.m. PDT, online

Thursday, October 28

McGill Library
ORCID-a-thon
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. EDT, online

Penn Libraries
Make Waves and Open Doors: Penn Scholars Explore Open Access Publishing
10:00–11:00 a.m. EDT, online

University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries
Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
10–11:00 a.m. CDT, online

Cornell University Library
Open Scholarship: Open Access, Open Science, Open Data
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. EDT, online

University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Sharing and Promoting Your Research: How the Libraries Can Help
12–1:00 p.m. EDT, in-person

McGill Library
Open Access Scholarly Books: Demystifying the Publishing Process
12–1:00 p.m. EDT, online

Temple University Libraries
How to Increase Your Research Impact with TUScholarShare
12–12:30 p.m. EDT, online

University of Colorado Boulder Libraries
Open Access in Public Libraries: Challenges and Opportunities for Inclusion
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. MDT, online

University of Washington Libraries
Introduction to Open Science Framework: Online Collaboration, Organization and Sharing
10–11:00 a.m. PDT, online for campus community

McMaster University Libraries
OER Lightning Round: Teaching in the Open at McMaster
1:30–2:30 p.m. EDT

UIC University Library
Assessing Your Scholarly Impact Using the H-index and Altmetrics
1–2:00 p.m. CDT, online

University of Manitoba Libraries
Open Access in the Sciences
1–2:00 p.m. CDT, online

University of Colorado Boulder Libraries
In the Library with the Lead Pipe: Evolving a Practice of Publishing Equity
1–2:00 p.m. MDT, online

UIC University Library
Introduction to OER Commons
2–3:00 p.m. CDT, online

UC Berkeley Library
Managing and Maximizing Your Scholarly Impact
1–2:30 p.m. PDT

Friday, October 29

University at Buffalo, SUNY, Libraries
Open Access Publishing and University Research
10:00–11:30 a.m. EDT, online

McMaster University Libraries
Play Bingo! Learn about OER! Win Prizes!
10:30–11:15 a.m. EDT

Washington University in St. Louis University Libraries
The Evolution of Preprints in the Life Sciences
3–4:00 p.m. EDT, online

Tuesday, November 2

UC Riverside Library
QGIS: Building Skills with Vector Data
2–3:00 p.m. PDT, online

Wednesday, November 3

UC San Diego Library
Open Access Publishing: Opportunities for UC San Diego Authors
2:30–3:30 p.m. PDT, online

Thursday, November 4

The University of British Columbia Library
Past, Present, and Future: A Conversation on Open Access with Leslie Chan
10:00–11:00 a.m. PDT, online

 

News, Blog Posts, and Resources

Boston College Libraries
International Open Access Week

The University of British Columbia Library
UBC Library Launches Open Publishing Program to Support UBC Faculty, Staff, and Student-Led Open Journals and Texts

University of Chicago Library
Open Access

Emory University Library
Happy International Open Access Week 2021!

University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries
Open Access: UF Invests in OA: Memberships & Discounts

Georgetown University Library
Celebrate Open Access Week

University of Guelph Library
Open Access Week 2021–Building Structural Equity

Harvard Library
Join Us for Open Access Month 2021!
Welcome to International Open Access Week 2021 and Open Access Month at Harvard Library

UIC University Library
Announcing Free Workshops, Exhibit for Open Access Week 2021

Indiana University Bloomington Libraries
Open Access Week 2021

University of Iowa Lichtenberger Engineering Library
Celebrate Open Access Week with Us!

Iowa State University Library
Open Access Agreements Expand Opportunities for ISU Researchers

University of Louisville Libraries
Celebrating International Open Access Week

University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Open Access Week at the UMass Amherst Libraries: Building Open Knowledge and Equity

McMaster University Libraries
Celebrating Open Access Week 2021

University of Miami Libraries
Open Access and Publishing

University of Michigan Library
Building Structural Equity: Michigan Publishing Celebrates Open Access Week

University of Minnesota Libraries
Towards Open Access at the University of Minnesota Libraries

University of Missouri Libraries
Make Your Research Open

University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries
Libraries to Celebrate Open Access Week

Penn State University Libraries
Equity in Open Access to Be Topic of Oct. 26 Session Presented by Libraries

Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies
Welcome to International Open Access Week 2021

University of Saskatchewan University Library
The Open Access Movement Turns 20

Simon Fraser University Library
Celebrate Open Access Week

Temple University Libraries
A Transition From Purchasing to Collaborating: The Relationships behind Open Access

University of Virginia Library
Welcome to Open Access Week!

VCU Libraries
VCU Libraries Celebrates Open Access Week 2021 Oct. 24-29

Virginia Tech University Libraries
Open Access Week Events Will Feature the University’s New Open Access Policy

University of Washington Libraries
It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity with UW Libraries Open Scholarship Commons

University of Washington Libraries
UW Libraries Observes International Open Access Week: October 25-29th, 2021

Washington State University Libraries
Open Access Week: Zoom Talk on Confronting Inequalities in Academic Publishing

University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries
Open Access Week 2021

 

Other

University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press is celebrating Open Access Week by implementing a new workflow for contacting faculty, staff, and grad students to congratulate them on recent publications, and to let them know that as publisher guidelines and embargoes allow, their articles will be made openly available through the UDSpace Institutional Repository. This workflow builds on UD’s Faculty Senate Open Access Resolution as well as data gathered from Google Scholar Alerts, in order to contact authors at the point of publication.

University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries launched an Open Scholarship & Learning section of their website in celebration of Open Access Week 2021.

 

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