The theme for this year’s International Open Access Week is “Open in Action.” This week is about taking concrete steps to open up research and scholarship and encouraging others to do the same.
At the University Level
We’ve demonstrated a commitment to sharing research openly with the community. Earlier this year, the FSU Faculty Senate passed a university-wide Open Access Policy requiring faculty to archive their work in DigiNole, FSU’s institutional repository. In addition to launching a new open source platform for DigiNole, FSU has also developed an Open Access portal to help answer open access and policy-related questions.
At the College Level
We are working to make the process of uploading scholarship to DigiNole easier. We are now able to automatically retrieve and archive FSU scholarship found in established subject-specific repositories such as PubMed Central, SSRN, and arXiv.org. Archiving scholarship in multiple repositories increases visibility, and theoretically, citations for these works.
At the Library Level
We are continuing to publish PLAID: People Living with And Inspired by Diabetes, the College’s peer-reviewed, open access diabetes research journal. PLAID is dedicated to the concept of open access; the journal aims to ensure that scholarship is accessible to all – those working, researching, and living with diabetes. We hope to see more instances of researchers taking scholarship into their own hands and sharing it freely by publishing work in open access journals or other open platforms.
At the Individual Level
Researchers are becoming actively involved in conversations about the benefits of open access. FSU professors Dr. Xan Nowakowski and Dr. Mark Riley recorded short videos discussing the importance of OA in furthering research and innovations, and how opening up this research can benefit the communities that we serve.
To learn more about open access and how you can become involved in this movement, consider attending one of these upcoming events:
Monday, October 24, 1:00-2:00pm @ Strozier Library
Thursday, October 27, 1:00-2:00pm @ Strozier Library
Wednesday, November 9, 3:00-4:00pm @ Strozier Library
Wednesday, November 9, 12:00-1:00pm @ College of Medicine, Room 1302
Maguire Medical Library
Florida State University College of Medicine
1115 W. Call St., Tallahassee, FL 32306
Call 850-644-3883 (voicemail) or Text 850-724-4987
Questions? Ask us.
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