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Open Access & Institutional Repository: Open Access Week

Open Access Week 2019

Open for whom? Equity in open knowledge

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

 

Open Access Week 2020

Open Access week 2020: open with purpose: taking action to build structural equity and inclusion

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: 

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

timeline of open access at the University of Southampton from 2000 (Creation of the EPrints software at the University of Southampton as the first free open access institutional repository software, now a world-leading open-source digital repository platform) to 2020 (we prepare for the REF submission)