What is Open Access?

Open Access is an international movement that has the goal of making peer-reviewed published scholarship available free of charge to the public and to the global scholarly community.

For additional reading about open access in general we recommend Wikipedia's well-referenced Open Access article.

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  • KU Libraries sponsors Open Textbook Workshop for Faculty

     

    Sarah Cohen and David Ernst of the University of Minnesota’s Open Textbook Network (OTN) will be at KU Libraries to lead a workshop for faculty regarding open textbooks and open educational resources on Friday, April 29, from 1:30-3:30 p.m., room 455 in Watson Library.

    In this two-hour session, faculty will learn the pedagogical benefits of open textbooks and discover open textbooks in their field. Faculty who attend and write a short review of an open textbook will receive a stipend of up to $500 (final amount distributed based on the number of faculty who complete reviews).These reviews will benefit other faculty considering open textbooks.

    Faculty may apply for a slot at the workshop by Friday, April 15, at 5 p.m. Space is limited.

  • Funding Agencies Adopt Public Access Plans

    Research funding agencies are increasingly implementing public access mandates that require researchers to make their peer-reviewed, published research available to the public as a matter of grant compliance. The terms and compliance guidelines for each mandate are set by the initiating agency.

  • KU Open Textbooks Informational Meeting

    KU Libraries' Shulenburger Office of Scholarly Communication & Copyright invites KU faculty, staff and students to attend a strategic discussion on Wednesday, November 4, from 4-5pm in Watson Library, Rm. 455 to consider the issues around the high cost of academic texts and projects underway locally and nationally to address these issues. At this session, we will discuss the current and future state of the adoption, adaption, and building of Open Educational Resources (including open textbooks) at KU and gather ideas for shaping spring semester programs for various campus communities focused on these issues. Please see the meeting agenda and RSVP to Sean Barker (smbarker@ku.eduto ensure that enough seats are available.

  • Open Access Week 2015 Events (#KUopenaccess)

    KU Libraries' Shulenburger Office of Scholarly Communication & Copyright is pleased to bring you a series of events in celebration of International Open Access Week, October 19-25, 2015. We join institutions from around the world in celebrating innovation in sharing scholarly information and the resulting benefits. This year’s theme is “Open for Collaboration,” and we kick off the celebration on Friday, October 16, with a lecture by UK-based humanities scholar and open access advocate Dr. Martin Paul Eve.

Open Access @ KU

14,890
The number of researchers to date that have signed the pledge not to publish, review, or serve on editorial boards for Elsevier journals

86
The number of scholarly communities in KU ScholarWorks

40,795
The number of times that the most popular KU ScholarWorks item--THE ROLE OF ADAPTOR PROTEIN GADS IN CD8+ T CELL-MEDIATED IMMUNITY--has been downloaded or viewed since 2007

2009
The year that the KU Open Access Policy was approved by the Faculty Senate

3,824,477
The number of times that items in KU ScholarWorks have been downloaded since 2007

4,371,923
The number of searches performed in KU ScholarWorks since 2009

324
(and growing) The number of dissertations and theses in the Pre-1923 Dissertations and Theses collection at http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7158

KU Faculty's Open Access Policy

The KU Faculty Open Access Policy (revised and passed the faculty senate on February 11, 2010) is a mechanism that asserts the rights of KU faculty to provide broad, free access to their journal publications to colleagues around the world.

Under the policy, KU faculty can exercise these rights by retaining enough copyrights and once rights are retained provide KU with the necessary bibliographic information and a copy of the publication. KU then provides efficient and effective access to these publications by means of KU ScholarWorks.  If a publisher requires a faculty member to opt out of the policy for a specific article, the author may submit an Open Access Policy Waiver Form.

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  • Sean Barker
    Project Manager
    Shulenburger Office of Scholarly Communication & Copyright, KU Libraries

    smbarker@ku.edu
    785-864-3843
  • Josh Bolick
    Scholarly Communication Librarian
    Shulenburger Office of Scholarly Communication & Copyright, KU Libraries

    jbolick@ku.edu
    785-864-1828
  • Ada Emmett
    Associate Librarian
    Director, Shulenburger Office of Scholarly Communication & Copyright, KU Libraries

    aemmett@ku.edu
    785-864-8831
  • Marianne Reed
    Digital Initiatives Coordinator
    IT & Discovery Services, KU Libraries

    mreed@ku.edu
    785-864-8913
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