Open Access & Institutional Repository: Open Access Week

25 -31^st October is International Open Access Week 

The library arranged a number of activities across the week for staff and PGRs. In addition the following blog posts were shared via our blog Research Matters|Southampton: 

• Open Access policies: Breaking down paywalls 
• Open Access Jargon Buster
• Open access policies for UKRI and the Wellcome Trust; the Rights Retention Strategy (RRS)
• The Wellcome Trust: Rights Retention Strategy (RRS) in action
• Open Access biscuits: which way does the cookie crumble?
• UKRI open access publishing: from now to April 2022
• Building Equity in research access: There’s a data statement for that
• It matters how we open knowledge: Elsevier

ORCiD Clinic - Drop In Session via Teams  (Monday 25^th October, 13:00-14:00)

Do you need help setting up your unique researcher identifier (ORCiD) or linking your existing ORCiD in Pure? University Library staff are holding a ORCiD clinic to help. Just join the Teams meeting at any point during the run time. Details on ORCiD and self help guides can also be found on https://library.soton.ac.uk/identifiers/orcid 

Making the most of Open Access Publishing: online Q&A (Friday 29^th October, 10:00-11:00, additional session added 11:00-12:00))

This session, run by the Library Engagement Team, includes a short introduction to open access publishing followed by a Q&A session so that we can cover the areas that interest you. We can discuss types of open access, funder policies, uploading your journal articles to our institutional repository, publisher deals, finding open access material and anything else you would like to ask.    

This Q&A session is repeated throughout the year and you can sign up via Staffbook/PGR Manager 

Webinar - Oxford University Press Read and Publish Agreement - Open Access at no additional cost to you 

Tuesday 26^th October, 14:00-15:00 

Join this webinar to find out how you can use the University of Southampton's Transformative Agreement (TA) to publish Open Access in an Oxford University Press Journal at no additional cost to you. Hosted by OUP this webinar will take you through the OUP Author Workflow system. University Library staff will be available to answer questions 

Recording now available below.

International Open Access Week 2020 was 19-25 October.

Open Access refers to free, unrestricted online access to research outputs (such as journal articles, theses and monographs) combined with the right to share and re-use the publication. 

The University of Southampton has a long history of supporting and promoting open access. To celebrate Open Access week we have a series of posts on our team blog, Research Matters|Southampton: 

• A day in the life of our Open Research Development Manager

• A view from our institutional repository team on checking for compliance with open access policies 

• Guest post from Helen Carter, Research Publications Specialist, on getting the most from your ORCiD 

• Archives and open access: the importance of metadata 

• A day in the life of our institutional repository manager 

You can also visit our webpages or email eprints@soton.ac.uk for help and guidance throughout the year. 

21-27 October 2019 was International Open Access Week

We launched our activities on Monday with a blog post: A Very Short Introduction to Open Access Using Biscuits

Further blog posts followed during the week on our team blog Research Matters|Southampton:

To pay or not to pay?

Our research community

Working for a common purpose

Forging new routes to Open Scholarship for HE and Cultural Heritage Institutions

We also have a light-hearted Twitter thread using biscuit analogies to explain Open Access