{"id":2491,"date":"2012-10-22T08:58:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T13:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2023-08-06T12:46:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T17:46:57","slug":"open-access-week-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2012\/10\/22\/open-access-week-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Access Week 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The University of Iowa Libraries joins thousands of other academic research libraries worldwide in celebration of <em><strong>International Open Access Week<\/strong><\/em>. To draw attention to this important issue facing faculty, students and librarians, we\u2019re <em><strong>turning our website orange<\/strong><\/em> in recognition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/openaccess\/\">open access<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u201cOpen Access\u201d<\/em><\/strong> to information \u2013 the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need \u2013 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>OA Week<\/em><\/strong> creates an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of open access, to share what they\u2019ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make <em><strong>Open Access<\/strong><\/em> a new norm in scholarship and research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To <strong><em>participate in OA week<\/em><\/strong>, do one or more of the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/openaccess\/\">University of Iowa\u2019s Open Access web page<\/a> and learn more about what OA is and how you can participate in making scholarship more freely available.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Look at a list of open access articles authored by UI faculty and staff.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Follow the Library News this week to hear what UI faculty and others think about OA and how they are becoming part of the solution.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Join us on Monday, October 29 at 3pm to hear Don Share, Senior Editor of Poetry Magazine talk about how one of the leading poetry magazines in the country went Open Access.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Take a few minutes to learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/guides.lib.uiowa.edu\/copyright\">copyright<\/a> and the importance of retaining rights to your published work.&nbsp; What does the last publication agreement you signed allow you to do with your work?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deposit pre-prints, post-prints and associated data files in Iowa\u2019s institutional repository: <a href=\"http:\/\/ir.uiowa.edu\/\">Iowa Research Online<\/a> (ir.uiowa.edu).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Iowa Libraries joins thousands of other academic research libraries worldwide in celebration of International Open Access Week. To draw attention to this important issue facing faculty, students and librarians, we\u2019re turning our website orange in recognition of open access. \u201cOpen Access\u201d to information \u2013 the free, immediate, online access to the results<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2012\/10\/22\/open-access-week-2012\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Open Access Week 2012&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17,19],"tags":[],"syndication":[33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5967,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions\/5967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}