International Open Access Week
Open Access Week is an annual program of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), which organizes global events to promote informed consideration of the potential benefits, complications, and challenges surrounding open access to scholarly information. Open access publications are digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
2024 Open Access Week
USC Libraries and the Center for Excellence in Research at USC Research Initiatives and Infrastructure proudly present Open Access Week 2024.
Open Access Journal Publishing: Transformative & Read and Publish Agreements at the USC Libraries
Tuesday, October 22, 12:00 noon–2:00 p.m.
Panelists: Jade Winn Systematic, Review Librarian, Alyssa Resnick Associate Dean, Technical Services and Collection Development and Associate University Librarian, USC Libraries
This workshop will introduce USC faculty, researchers, and graduate students to Open Access journal publishing at USC, which ensures your research manuscripts and journal articles are widely available upon publication. Automatic embargoes imposed by publishers are often not acceptable to some grant terms or the temporal nature of research in many disciplines. Attendees will become better prepared to navigate the world of manuscript submissions.
Open Access Book Publishing
Thursday, October 24, 12:00 noon–2:00 p.m.
Panelists: Larry Gross Professor Emeritus of Communication USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Sarah McKee American Council of Learned Societies, Charles Watkinson Director of University of Michigan Press and Associate University Librarian for Publishing at the University of Michigan, Bridgid Fennell Education Librarian USC Libraries.
Open access publishing enables greater societal impact of scholarly research and hastens breakthroughs by removing financial and licensing barriers imposed by for-profit legacy publishers. Learn how publishing your book under the open access model reimagines scholarly publishing to promote equity, leverages digital mediums, and complies with federal and private funder mandates for immediate public access to research findings.
2018 Open Access Week
Updated: Here is a link to Ms. Roh's slides from her presentation on October 26 at USC.
Open Access Week is October 22 to 28. Please set aside some time on Friday afternoon, October 26 for a very interesting discussion as Charlotte Roh, Scholarly Communication Librarian at the University of San Francisco, will be speaking in DML 233 (Intellectual Commons) on:
“Open Access isn't Perfect, but Neither is Publishing: The New Landscape of Scholarly Communication as an Opportunity for Social Justice”
Ms. Roh writes and speaks on the intersection of social justice and scholarly communication, dealing frankly with issues such as bias, diversity, and the subversion of traditional publishing power structures. In addition to her work in academic libraries, Ms. Roh has spent the last year as a Library Publishing Coalition Fellow working on the Ethical Framework for Library Publishing. She has an MLIS from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Selected works of Ms. Roh can be found at: https://works.bepress.com/charlotteroh/
In addition to Ms. Roh's presentation, the Science & Engineering Library will be hosting a display on Open Access in their lobby.
2017 Open Access Event @ USC
The USC Libraries have coordinated a keynote address to bring an important topic to the forefront:
Navigating an Open Access World: Avoiding Publishing in Predatory Journals
Join us for this year's recognition of Open Access!
Jeffrey Beall, University of Colorado, Denver, Scholarly Initiatives Librarian, will give a keynote presentation on the shifting landscape of open access publishing and the threat of predatory publishers.
This keynote will be followed by a Q&A with respondents offering alternative perspectives to open access publishing.
Monday, October 9th, 2017 in Doheny Memorial Library (DML) 240 at 12:00pm
Please RSVP at the link to reserve a lunch and seat.
https://bit.ly/2jqY72c
2016 Open Access Week Panels
Events will be held at Doheny Memorial Library (DML) & Norris Medical Library
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Monday, October 24, 2016
10:30 am – 11:30 am, DML 241 (Doheny Memorial Library)
Open Access, Archives, and the Digital
This panel will pertain to the stakes in open access, as it relates to archives and digital culture in the humanities. As liaisons and generators of information between regulated spaces and the public, these panelists will discuss how information can be shared and accessible to the individual, no matter their status as professor or student or otherwise. What does it mean to their field to support open access and why does it matter?
Panelists:
- Virginia Kuhn, Associate Professor in Media Arts + Practice Division and Associate Director of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy
- Andrew Justice, Head of the Music Library
- Brett Service, Curator of the Warner Bros. Archives at USC
Moderated by Eszter Zimanyi, PhD candidate, Cinema & Media Studies
Coffee and tea will be available
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Monday, October 24, 2016
Friends of USC Libraries Lecture Hall (DML 240)
Lunch and Learn: 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
(lunch delivered at 11:30 and the panel starts at 12:00 p.m.)
Open Access Publishing in the Social Sciences and Humanities: USC Faculty Perspectives
This panel will explore the reasons why scholars in the humanities and social sciences support open access publishing. How are USC faculty contributing to open access initiatives? How might contributing to open access journals, and monographs reshape the practice of scholarship, tenure and education? How can libraries support and promote open access publishing? The panelists will discuss these and other questions related to the challenges and benefits of evolving scholarly communication practices.
Panelists:
- Larry Gross, Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication
Editor, The International Journal of Communication - Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Author, Equity, Growth, and Community: What the Nation can Learn from America's Metro Areas, published via the new UCLA Open Access Press program Luminos - Mark Andrew Schroeder, Professor of Philosophy, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Editor, Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy
RSVP at https://bit.ly/opendml
Wednesday, October 26th
10:30 am – 11:30 am, DML 240
Open Educational Resources (OER)
Join USC Libraries faculty to discuss open education resources (OER) and how they can be used to allow for open teaching, learning, and research. Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed documents and media used for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes. Universities across the country are replacing costly textbooks with OER materials in their curriculum to promote ‘open’ resources and also for cost savings for students. In California, the state-wide Textbook Affordability Act (AB798) promises to expand the use of OER materials and provide professional development to professors who choose to use the free materials. The law and changing trends have implications for professors, students, and librarians at USC.
- John Juricek, Collections Strategist Librarian
- Caroline Muglia, Collection Assessment Librarian
- Melanee Vicedo, Head, Education & Social Work Library Services
Coffee and tea will be available
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Wednesday, October 26th
12 – 2 PM, DML 240
Scholarly Publishing and Open Access
Join Sabbi Lall and a panel for a discussion of scholarly publishing and open access from the perspective of the publisher and editors. The panel of experts will answer your publishing questions. Lunch will be served.
Sabbi Lall has worked at Cell Reports for 5 years. She helped launch the journal, the first Open Access journal within Cell Press and went on to take the reins as Editor-in-Chief in 2014. Before that she was a Senior editor at Nature Publishing group for 5 years and a post-doc in Dr. Rajewsky’s lab at New York University after gaining her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Oxford/Cancer Research UK.
Lunch will be served.
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Thursday, October 27th, 2016
12pm-1pm
West Conference Room - Norris Medical Library (Health Sciences Campus)
Tech Lunch Series
Close Only Counts in Horseshoes and Slow Dancing: Open Access Options
Have you ever tried accessing a journal article and been asked to pay $20, $50, or even more for a PDF? Have you ever found the perfect article in PubMed only to find out the library didn’t subscribe to that journal? Then open access might be your new favorite thing! Open access is a movement to use current technologies to share information to further progress science and research. We'll talk about locating open access journals, how open access connects to NIH and NSF funding, discounts available to USC authors, and how to figure out which journals are open access and which are just plain predatory.
Pizza and bottled water will be provided
No RSVP required