Open Access Week October 19-25, 2015 Open For Collaboration
What is Open Access?
Open access refers to scholarly research that is freely available online, without price or most licensing restrictions. It encourages the unrestricted sharing of research with everyone, everywhere, for the advancement and enjoyment of science and society. Learn more about Open Access, about this year's theme - Open for Collaboration, and about the Budapest Initative which launched the worldwide campaign for open access.
Open Access and University of Toronto Libraries
University of Toronto Libraries, including the U of T Mississauga Library, support open access through a number of intiatives.
T-Space. A free and secure research repository established by University of Toronto Libraries to disseminate and preserve the scholarly record of University of Toronto.
TSpace is the University of Toronto's institutional repository. All items in TSpace are openly accessible. Browse UT Mississauga's research communities in TSpace
Local Digital Special Collections. Fulltext digital collections were developed here at the University of Toronto Libraries, in collaboration with university faculty and external partners.
Open Access Publishers Discounts. Learn more about how University of Toronto Libraries offers U of T researchers access to institutional memberships to a variety of open access journals and organizations. These memberships offer discounts on publications charges or may waive article processing charges (APC) to researchers at the Univesrsity of Toronto.
U of T Mississauga Library also supports:
UTM Open Access Journals
- Prandium. The Journal of Historical Studies at U of T Mississauga
- Soundposts. Professional Writing and Communications
- With caffeine & careful thought. Department of English and Drama
UTM Open Access Publications
Travels of the Lute: A Digtial Humanities Resource for Teaching and Learning World History. Project Director: Dr. Mairi Cowan, Department of Historical Studies, Univeristy of Toronto Mississauga
U of T Mississauga TSpace community - highlighting the open access research published by our researchers
Hi Collaborative. A Mississauga community health portal supported by the U of T Mississauga Library
What Are Others Doing? A few selected Open Access Resources from the global research community.
The Right to Research Coalition. Founded by students to promote an open scholarly publishing system based on the belief that no student should be denied access to the articles they need because their institution cannot afford the often high cost of access.
Reference Resources
Sherpa Romeo. Is your journal open access? Why not check? Sherpa Romeo is a highly regarded database based at the University of Nottingham.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy organizes scholars from around the world in philosophy and related disciplines to create and maintain an up-to-date reference work.
Global Open Access Portal. UNESCO
Directories
Directory of Open Access Journals. DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Directory of Open Access Books. Increasing discoverability of Open Access books.
ROAD. Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources. A service offered by the ISSN International Centre with the support of the Communication and Information Sector of UNESCO.
Search Engines
BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic open access web resources. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.
JURN. A unique search-engine primarily dedicated to indexing free and ‘open access’ ejournals in the arts and humanities. It includes scholarly publications, such as theses and also ejournals in science, biomedical, business, law and ecology/nature related topics.
Open Access Week 2015 Events
University of Toronto Events. A full listing of events offered by University of Toronto Libraries.
International Events
For a listing of international Open Access Week events visit the SPARC Upcoming Events site and join in. SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication.
In celebration of International Open Access Week and this year’s theme of “Open for Collaboration,” SPARC and the Wikimedia Foundation’s Wikipedia Library are co-hosting a global, virtual edit-a-thon for Open Access-related content on Wikipedia.
You don’t need to be an expert Wikipedia editor to contribute. In fact, you don’t need any editing experience at all! All you need is an interest in Open Access and willingness to share your knowledge by adding it to an article or translating information into a new language. Training for new editors will be provided as part of the event.
A homepage for the Open Access Week Edit-a-thon has been setup on the Wikimedia website. On this page, you’ll find everything you need to participate.
More information:
For more information about International Open Access Week, visit the website.
For more informaton about U of T Mississauga Library's open access initatives contact: your Liaison Librarian or Pam King, Coordinator, Digital Initative and Scholarly Communication.