{"id":6043,"date":"2024-10-21T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T04:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/?p=6043"},"modified":"2024-10-18T16:27:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T20:27:52","slug":"its-open-access-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/2024\/10\/21\/its-open-access-week\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Open Access Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.openaccessweek.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Open Access Week<\/a>! Open Access is a global movement to make scholarly research more easily discoverable and accessible by removing subscription barriers (aka \u201cpaywalls\u201d) to make content available for free for students and researchers around the world. Open Access to research has countless benefits for those who are both publishing and consuming the content, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Accelerating research by making published books and papers more widely available<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reducing costs for students by using Open Textbooks<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Making scholarly research available to those who aren\u2019t affiliated with a college or university<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Increasing the impact that authors can have when publishing in their field<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reducing costs for institutions, whose budgets are often flat while journal prices increase<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How does Open Access help to do this?<\/h2>\n<p><iframe title=\"Video: Open Access Explained!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L5rVH1KGBCY?feature=oembed\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px; border: 0px solid #000;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Interested in learning more? The University Libraries are holding three workshops this week:<\/p>\n<h3>Wednesday, October 23, 2024<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Open Access Week: What&#8217;s Open? Demystifying the Varieties of &#8220;Open&#8221; (Online)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Co-presented by the Office of Faculty Excellence<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Open Access, Open Educational Resources, Open Pedagogy, Open Science, and Open Data promote equity and inclusion in the classroom and broader academy. Removing barriers to access enables more learning, more sharing of knowledge, and even greater learning in turn. Join OFE and University Libraries for this information session on all things Open to learn which methods would benefit you and your students as you think about your courses or your research.<\/p>\n<span class=\"prpl-button\"><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/montclair-faculty-excellence.libcal.com\/event\/13326639\" target=\"_blank\">Register Now<\/a><\/span>\n<h3>Thursday, October 24, 2024<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Open Access for Research (Online)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This workshop will cover how to navigate scholarly resources outside of traditional library databases, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Locating and evaluating Open Access resources, including books, journals, and teaching materials<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Copyright and Open Access<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Preprint servers and Institutional Repositories<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Web-based research tools, such as Endnote Click and Unpaywall<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<span class=\"prpl-button\"><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/montclair.libcal.com\/event\/13324059\" target=\"_blank\">Register Now<\/a><\/span>\n<h3>Friday, October 25, 2024<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Open Access Week: Getting Started with Zotero<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Zotero is a free, open source citation management program that will allow you to collect and organize your references, highlight and annotate your PDF files, and generate citations and change style formats with just a few clicks.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Open Access, and Open Access Week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.openaccessweek.org\/about\" target=\"_blank\">About Open Access Week<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/montclair.libguides.com\/openaccess\" target=\"_blank\">Open Access Research Guide from University Libraries<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biomedcentral.com\/oamyths\" target=\"_blank\">Common myths about Open Access\u2026 busted!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<span class=\"prpl-button\"><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/montclair.libcal.com\/event\/13347733\" target=\"_blank\">Register Now<\/a><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s International Open Access Week! 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