This week, we’re celebrating International Open Access Week! This global community event organized by SPARC and the Open Access Week Advisory Committee is an opportunity to inspire wider uptake of OA through experience and knowledge sharing. This year, the celebrations continue the call to put “community over commercialization” and “prioritize approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the public and the academic community”. In this week’s digest, we signpost five webinars taking place throughout Open Access Week, including an ISMPP U webinar hosted by Open Pharma.
To engage with:
Open Pharma on understanding CC licences via ISMPP
Creative Commons (CC) licences are alternatives to standard copyright licences that allow authors to retain rights to their work and set conditions for reuse. In this International Society for Medical Publication Professionals University (ISMPP U) webinar on 23 October, Open Pharma will explore CC licences in the context of industry-funded research publications. In honour of Open Access Week, registration for this event is free! This webinar is approved for 1.0 Certified Medical Publication Professional™ credit.
OA Week keynote: the open scholarship movement via International Open Access Week
Danny Kingsley (Director of Library Services at Deakin University) will set the tone for International Open Access Week with this keynote address titled Community over commercialization on 20 October. The address will delve into the principles, evolution and future of the open scholarship movement, and will explore the diversity and impact of open access (OA) strategies used globally. This conversation will continue on 22 October with an online panel discussion. Register for the free hybrid session here.
AI in academic publishing via International Open Access Week
Curious about the opportunities and challenges of using artificial intelligence (AI) for academic publishing? Join Priya Madina (Vice President, External Affairs and Policy at Taylor & Francis) for an overview of AI in the context of academic publishing, including a discussion of publisher use cases. Register here for this discussion on 21 October.
Improving metadata for OA publications via International Open Access Week
Simon Willemin (Data Scientist at the ETH Zurich library) will deliver an online presentation titled How to improve the metadata coverage and quality in open scholarly metadata databases for open access publications? on 24 October. Addressing professionals in OA, librarians, and anyone with an interest in open scholarly metadata databases, the session will first tackle the challenges of using open scholarly metadata databases like OpenAlex and OpenAIRE for bibliometrics. The speaker will then introduce tools that can help improve the coverage and quality of metadata, with a focus on the metadata required to analyse OA publications from Swiss institutions. You can join the event here.
The new Gates Foundation OA policy: Q&A via ASAPbio
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s new OA policy will go into effect in January 2025. This updated policy “mandates preprints for all grantees, encourages preprint peer review and removes funding for APCs [article processing charges]”. Join Ashley Farley (Program Officer of Knowledge and Research Services at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) for this online Q&A session on 6 November to find out more.
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