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Developments in Scholarly Publishing Worth Tracking
April 23, 2019
SPARC Scholarly Publishing Landscape Analysis
April 8, 2019
KU Libraries announce Textbook Heroes initiative
March 19, 2019
Open Access Week 2018 Workshops
August 24, 2018
Dept. of Education $5M Funding for OER Moving Forward
August 2, 2018
Barriers to Finding and Using OER Decreasing
January 11, 2018
KU Libraries to host Mozilla Working Open Workshop
October 2, 2017
KU joins competitive OpenStax Institutional Partner Program
June 21, 2017
Lecture - Serving Social Justice and Pedagogical Innovation Through Open Educational Practices
February 24, 2017
Kevin L. Smith Lecture - Fair Use Trending: Copyright in the Classroom
February 15, 2017
Envisioning a World Beyond APCs/BPCs Symposium
November 11, 2016
Open Access Week 2016 Events (#KUopenaccess)
September 8, 2016
KU faculty and librarians to participate at 2016 Scholarly Communication Institute
September 8, 2016
KU Libraries sponsors Open Textbook Workshop for Faculty
February 24, 2016
Funding Agencies Adopt Public Access Plans
February 24, 2016
KU Open Textbooks Informational Meeting
October 27, 2015
Open Access Week 2015 Events (#KUopenaccess)
September 21, 2015
KU Libraries joins Open Textbook Network
August 6, 2015
KU Libraries joins Open Library of Humanities
July 15, 2015
Libraries announce planning for Hackathon: Water
June 16, 2015
KU librarian now editor at DOAJ
May 15, 2015
Federal agencies releasing open access plans
May 14, 2015
Fair Use guidelines for Visual Arts professionals: "Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts"
February 9, 2015
New access to out-of-print books
January 22, 2015
KU Libraries sign Lyon Declaration on Access to Information and Development
December 23, 2014
New guidelines for best practices in Fair Use of orphan works in collections and archives
December 17, 2014
SPARC Europe white paper on Open Access publishing in the social sciences
December 8, 2014
SPARC Europe releases white paper on Open Access in the humanities
December 1, 2014
The Open Access Revolution: Expected and Unexpected Changes in the Research Landscape
November 13, 2014
New license allows use of orphaned works in the UK
November 6, 2014
KU Libraries announce Open Access Week 2014 events
October 10, 2014
An upgraded KU ScholarWorks is coming!
September 24, 2014
Cogitatio launches three new Open Access journals in the Humanities
August 1, 2014
European research organizations ask Elsevier to reconsider data and text mining policies
July 10, 2014
"What is ORCID?" video
June 3, 2014
Evaluating the quality of Open Access journals
April 14, 2014
KU Philosophy professor joins new OA journal as Associate Editor
February 19, 2014
AAAS announces new Open Access journal
February 13, 2014
Landmark federal Open Access legislation passes Congress
January 17, 2014
Washington Post: "How one publisher is stopping academics from sharing their research"
December 20, 2013
Nobel winner will no longer publish in top science journals
December 9, 2013
Affordable College Textbook Act
November 14, 2013
The Open Access Movement Grows Up: Taking Stock of a Revolution
November 1, 2013
Jack Andraka on The Colbert Report
October 31, 2013
Open Access advocates respond to Science article on Open Access Journals
October 10, 2013
KU Libraries announce Open Access Week 2013 events
October 3, 2013
Impacts of Openness lightning talks on October 25
October 3, 2013
Sources for free online images
August 26, 2013
Not Waving but Drowning -- Navigating and Improving the Impact of Our Scholarship
August 26, 2013
The Getty Museum announces Open Content Program
August 12, 2013
University of California passes system-wide Open Access policy
August 5, 2013
Books and Open Access
August 2, 2013
DORA awarded July 2013 SPARC Innovators Award
July 22, 2013
Universities plan to manage research data
July 8, 2013
Over 10,000 items in KU ScholarWorks
July 1, 2013
Open Access leads to medical breakthrough
June 12, 2013
Universities and libraries propose to SHARE
June 10, 2013
Scholarly publishers want to provide open access to federally-funded research
June 5, 2013
Library resources for NIH compliance
June 3, 2013
The Economist: "Academic Publishing: Free-for-All"
May 15, 2013
Public Access to Research and Data: Stakeholder meetings May 14-17
May 14, 2013
Open Data: the new standard for federal agencies
May 10, 2013
Bollier: "Did Commercial Journals Use the NYT to Smear Open Access?"
April 22, 2013
The outcry over Mendelay's sale to publisher Elsevier continues
April 22, 2013
KU ScholarWorks Downloads Surpass 2 MILLION!
April 11, 2013
Editorial Board Resigns to Protest Publisher Policies
March 25, 2013
Directory of Open Access Journals hits 1 million
March 12, 2013
KU's role in the Open Access movement
March 10, 2013
COAPI as "The Real Digital Change Agent"
March 4, 2013
SPARC chair responds to White House Open Access directive
February 27, 2013
Media coverage of the White House Open Access directive
February 26, 2013
White House issues Open Access directive
February 22, 2013
Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR)
February 15, 2013
Episciences Project to start in April
January 31, 2013
Funding Still Available: One-University Open Access Fund for Year 1
January 4, 2013
New Open Access journal eLife launches this week
December 21, 2012
KU librarian asks Elsevier for public clarification regarding its new Open Access policies
November 21, 2012
COAPI launches Open Access Now website
November 12, 2012
COAPI hits 50!
November 1, 2012
The One-University Open Access Fund at The University of Kansas
October 26, 2012
Open Access Week 2012: "Set the Default to Openness"
October 26, 2012
Bernstein Research releases report about OA affect on publishers
October 26, 2012
Video collaboration between PhD Comics and the Right to Research Coalition (R2RC) debuts at KU Libraries
October 25, 2012
Open Access in the News
July 28, 2012
Open Access Webcast -- The Direction of Fair Use for Education: New Law and New Possibilities
July 12, 2012
Happy 1st Anniversary, COAPI!
June 24, 2012
White House petition exceeds 25,000 signature goal
June 19, 2012
Open Access Webcast -- 2012 Open Access Week Kickoff Webcast
June 19, 2012
Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions supports FRPAA legislation
June 13, 2012
COAPI announces support for the White House petition
May 31, 2012
Please consider signing the White House petition by June 19!
May 22, 2012
Open Access Webcast -- What the World Bank's Open Access Policy Means for Development
May 21, 2012
SPARC Offers Next Steps for Authors Who Have Signed the Elsevier Boycott
April 26, 2012
Open Access Webcast -- Panel discussion about open access issues from Harvard Law School
April 9, 2012
Senate Hearings Examine Public Access and Scholarly Publication Interests
March 29, 2012
Open Access Webcast: Senate Hearings Examine Public Access and Scholarly Publication Interests
March 29, 2012
The Research Works Act is Dead
February 27, 2012
Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) Supports Public Access to Research
February 9, 2012
A Call to Action: Oppose the Research Works Act - Jan. 30, 2012
January 30, 2012
Scholars Encourage Boycott of Elsevier
January 16, 2012
The University of Kansas responds to the White House Request for Information
January 12, 2012
A Call to Action: Support public access to publicly funded research
December 28, 2011
KU Chancellor Gray-Little signs the Berlin Declaration
October 24, 2011

Contact

Ada Emmett
Librarian
Director, Shulenburger Office of Scholarly Communication & Copyright, KU Libraries
aemmett@ku.edu
785-864-8831

Josh Bolick
Scholarly Communication Librarian
Shulenburger Office of Scholarly Communication & Copyright, KU Libraries
jbolick@ku.edu
785-864-1828

Marianne Reed
Digital Initiatives Manager
Digital Initiatives, KU Libraries
mreed@ku.edu
785-864-8913

Related Links

KU ScholarWorks
Scholarly Communication & Copyright Services at KU Libraries
Copyright Resources guide
Open Educational Resources guide
KU One University Open Access Author Fund
Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI)
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)

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