It’s International Open Access Week, Oct. 23-29!

Today kicks off  International Open Access Week! The UC San Diego Library is joining the conversation about the importance of openly available scholarship by sharing Open Access tools, news, and advocacy opportunities in order to actively support the full scholarly communication lifecycle.

Open In Order to Reuse!
We are kicking off #OAWeek with opportunities to learn more about Open Access, tools to facilitate and share your research as widely as possible, and actions to take to influence policy to safeguard public access to research and scholarship. 
What is Open Access? 

Tools to Legally Obtain Research Locked Behind Subscription Paywalls
The Open Access Button
Free, legal research articles, and data delivered instantly or automatically requested from authors.
Finding Available Research
Give us a scholarly paper and we’ll search thousands of sources with millions of articles to link you to free, legal, full text articles instantly.

Requesting Resarch
If we can’t get you access, we’ll start a request for you. We request articles from authors, and guide them on making the work available to you and everyone who needs it.
Unpaywall 
Read paywalled research papers for free. It’s fast, free, and legal, powered by a database of millions of author-uploaded PDFs. Unpaywall tab can change colors to indicate Green or Gold OA, too.
Webinars and Livestreams
OpenAIRE Open Access Week Webinars
All webinars will be recorded and slides will be distributed at the end of the series (after October 27).

  • Monday, October 23, 11am CEST – Watch the livestream of the Executive Director of SPARC, Heather Joseph’s keynote through the UC Irvine Libraries Facebook.
  • Monday, October 23, 2pm CEST
    • Natural Sciences and Open Science: Workflows and tools for publishing, licensing, versioning, identifiers, archiving, software.
  • Tuesday, October 24, 11am CEST
    • Refreshment on Open Access, Open Science and H2020 requirements. How can OpenAIRE help researchers and projects to comply with Open Access mandates?
  • Tuesday, October 24, 2pm CEST
    • Life Sciences and Open Science: Workflows and tools for publishing, licensing, versioning, identifiers, archiving, software.
  • Wednesday, October 25, 11am CEST
    • General introduction to Open Data Policies in Horizon 2020, influence of OD policies on Open Science Workflows.
  • Wednesday, October 25, 2pm CEST
    • Flip the classroom: bring your questions about RDM and DMPs.
  • Thursday, October 26, 11am CEST
    • Legal aspects of Open Science.
  • Thursday, October 26, 2pm CEST
    • Humanities and Open Science: Workflows and tools for publishing, licensing, versioning, identifiers, archiving, software.

October 26-27, 2017  – SoCArXiv 
O3S: Open Scholarship for the Social Sciences 

  • Thursday, October 26, 1:30pm EST
    • Chris Bourg, MIT University Librarian on “Scholarly Communications: The librarians are broke, the scholars are busy, and some of us are both.
    • Jeffrey Spies, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Center for Open Science (COS),”The Many Values of Open: Increasing Research Efficiency, Quality, Accessibility, and Diversity.