Open Access is an international movement that has the goal of making peer-reviewed published scholarship available free of charge to the public and to the global scholarly community.
For additional reading about open access in general we recommend Wikipedia's well-referenced Open Access article.
KU Libraries' Shulenburger Office of Scholarly Communication & Copyright is excited to observe International Open Access Week, October 24-30, 2016. We join institutions from around the world in recognizing innovation in sharing scholarly information and the resulting benefits. This year’s theme is “Open in Action,” and we have extended our activities beyond the traditionally recognized week (more information soon). We kick off our celebration on Thursday, October 6, with a keynote lecture by April Hathcock, Scholarly Communications Librarian, New York University, who is known for her work exploring the intersection between open and social justice.
An interdisciplinary proposal by KU faculty and librarians has been selected for inclusion in the prestigious 2016 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded Scholarly Communication Institute.
Sarah Cohen and David Ernst of the University of Minnesota’s Open Textbook Network (OTN) will be at KU Libraries to lead a workshop for faculty regarding open textbooks and open educational resources on Friday, April 29, from 1:30-3:30 p.m., room 455 in Watson Library.
Research funding agencies are increasingly implementing public access mandates that require researchers to make their peer-reviewed, published research available to the public as a matter of grant compliance. The terms and compliance guidelines for each mandate are set by the initiating agency.
14,890
The number of researchers to date that have signed the pledge not to publish, review, or serve on editorial boards for Elsevier journals
86
The number of scholarly communities in KU ScholarWorks
40,795
The number of times that the most popular KU ScholarWorks item--THE ROLE OF ADAPTOR PROTEIN GADS IN CD8+ T CELL-MEDIATED IMMUNITY--has been downloaded or viewed since 2007
2009
The year that the KU Open Access Policy was approved by the Faculty Senate
3,824,477
The number of times that items in KU ScholarWorks have been downloaded since 2007
4,371,923
The number of searches performed in KU ScholarWorks since 2009
324
(and growing) The number of dissertations and theses in the Pre-1923 Dissertations and Theses collection at http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7158
The KU Faculty Open Access Policy (revised and passed the faculty senate on February 11, 2010) is a mechanism that asserts the rights of KU faculty to provide broad, free access to their journal publications to colleagues around the world.
Under the policy, KU faculty can exercise these rights by retaining enough copyrights and once rights are retained provide KU with the necessary bibliographic information and a copy of the publication. KU then provides efficient and effective access to these publications by means of KU ScholarWorks. If a publisher requires a faculty member to opt out of the policy for a specific article, the author may submit an Open Access Policy Waiver Form.
