{"id":429,"date":"2016-10-25T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/hkslibrary\/?p=429"},"modified":"2016-10-25T21:38:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T21:38:49","slug":"open-access-week-1024-1030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hkslibrary\/2016\/10\/25\/open-access-week-1024-1030\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Access Week 10\/24-10\/30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Libraries across the globe are celebrating <a href=\"http:\/\/openaccessweek.org\">Open Access (OA) Week,<\/a>\u00a0from October 24-October 30.<\/p>\n<p>What is open access? It is a movement to make scholarship free and open for public use and consumption without digital restrictions. <a href=\"http:\/\/sparcopen.org\/open-access\/\">SPARC<\/a>, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting open access scholarship, has an excellent website that discusses open access and highlights new open access projects\u00a0including open education resources (OERs) and open data.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard&#8217;s Faculty of Arts and Sciences,\u00a0adopted an <a href=\"https:\/\/osc.hul.harvard.edu\/policies\/\">Open Access Policy<\/a> in 2008. The Harvard Kennedy School followed suit with its own adoption of\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/osc.hul.harvard.edu\/policies\/hks\/\">HKS Open Access Policy<\/a>\u00a0in 2009. Harvard&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/osc.hul.harvard.edu\/\">Office of Scholarly Communications<\/a> (OSC)\u00a0maintains Harvard&#8217;s online digital repository for scholarship, <a href=\"https:\/\/dash.harvard.edu\/\">DASH<\/a>. The OSC\u00a0administers the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/osc.hul.harvard.edu\/programs\/hope\/\">HOPE Fund<\/a>, which provides limited\u00a0funding\u00a0to Harvard affiliated authors\u00a0who publish in qualifying open access journals.\u00a0\u00a0Visit DASH to view open access scholarship that has been authored by Harvard faculty, staff and students including the <a href=\"https:\/\/dash.harvard.edu\/handle\/1\/3345934\/browse?type=dateaccessioned\">HKS Faculty Scholarship Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have questions\u00a0about the HKS\u00a0Open Access Policy, contact the HKS Library Liasion for the Office of Scholarly Communication, Senior Research &amp; Knowledge Services Librarian, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hks.harvard.edu\/about\/faculty-staff-directory\/valerie-weis\">Valerie Weis.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some additional OA sites and resources are listed below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/osc.hul.harvard.edu\/oaweek\">Open Access Week, Harvard Office of Scholarly Communication<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peter Suber&#8217;s MIT Press 2012\u00a0book, <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/open-access\"><em>Open Access<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>and 2016 book, <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/knowledge-unbound\"><em>Knowledge Unbound: Selected Writings on Open Access, 2002-2011<\/em><\/a> (Open access versions\u00a0are linked from the\u00a0MIT Press site). Peter\u00a0Suber is the Director of Office of Scholarly Communications at Harvard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doaj.org\/\">Directory of Open Access Journals<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doabooks.org\/doab\">Directory of Open Access Books<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.umn.edu\/opentextbooks\/\">Open Textbook Library<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opensyllabusproject.org\/\">Open Syllabus Project<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/\">Creative Commons License:<\/a> Different license options for designating works authored by you\u00a0as open access<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/guides.library.harvard.edu\/c.php?g=310915&amp;p=2073118\">HKS Library Guide, Beyond Harvard<\/a>: Lists a number of open access resources in the <strong>Scholarly Articles and More<\/strong> section.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libraries across the globe are celebrating Open Access (OA) Week,\u00a0from October 24-October 30. 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