Happy International Open Access Week! From October 19-25, the library will join academic and nonprofit organizations across the globe to celebrate, highlight, and advocate for openly accessible research, data, and scholarly materials. Since its first international celebration in 2009, the annual Open Access Week has been celebrated by individual scholars, institutions, and organizations around the world that rely on openly accessible papers and data to conduct research and support their scholarly conclusions.
Here are ways the library supports Open Access all year:
- The library can publish Open Access versions of your scholarly work in our institutional repository, DigitalGeorgetown. This can include pre-prints of articles, research data and other supplementary research materials, digital projects, and work created by Georgetown centers and departments, such as conference proceedings, reports, and gray literature. For more information on publishing in DigitalGeorgetown visit this link.
- Do you currently publish a journal in DigitalGeorgetown? Are you interested in learning more about starting an Open Access journal or publishing your existing journal in partnership with the Library? Please join us for an OA Journal Publishing Happy Hour on World Digital Preservation Day, November 5th starting at 4 PM in the Murray Room (5th floor of Lau). Stop by to meet current and prospective journal editors and writers!
- The library mints Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs). A DOI is a set of unique letters, numbers, and symbols that identify an article or document and provide it with a permanent URI, so the article can always be found and cited even if the original website where it was published moves or gets deleted. For more information on obtaining a DOI visit this page.
- The Digital Scholarship team can assist authors with obtaining an Open Researcher and Contributor Identification (ORCID), a 16-digit number assigned to individual researchers to connect their publications and research back to them. For more information on ORCIDs and how to get one, visit this page.
- Learn more about Open Access through the Recommended Reading Display. Can’t make it to the display? Check out this guide outlining the resources displayed on the third floor of Lauinger, to learn how and why Open Access has the capacity to transform the world!