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What did you do for Open Access week?

Posted October 28, 2011 6:25 PM in Research, Resources

This past week has been the 5th annual international Open Access week.  It is part of a world-wide movement to make scholarship and research available to everyone.  "Open Access" to information - the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need - has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole.

The NIH Public Access Policy is just one aspect of this movement.  More and more journals are providing open access alternatives and some granting agencies are allowing funds to be set aside to pay for articles to be made available freely to everyone from day one.


According to Ben Adida, a technical advisor to the SMART project at Harvard Medical School,  "Academic publications should be available for the world to read, to learn from, to build upon."

If you want to learn more about Open Access efforts at VCU Libraries, you can check out the links on our Open Access page. 

One thing you can do is publish an article in an open access journal.  VCU Libraries has a membership in BioMed Central which gives VCU faculty a 15% discount on author fees and now VCU Libraries has a membership with Hindawi Publishing that gives VCU faculty a complete waiver of fees.  Please ask a librarian for more information.  We are here to help you.