International Open Access Week
We detail the activities we have prepared in the UAB libraries to promote open access during the week of October 21-27.
07/10/2019
From October 21st to 27th the International Open Access Week is celebrated around the world, an annual initiative to promote open access (OA) in the academic and research world.
We detail below the different activities that the UAB libraries have prepared this year to promote open access:
Escape room on open access!
By Katrine Sundsbø
Come and play with us! We are in 2100 and all the research is published without costs for readers or authors. Solve a series of riddles that will help us to defeat the villain who has closed all the research in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. During the game you will learn the basics of Open Access. Your task will consist in unblocking the research and make it public and free again.Date: Thursday, October 24th, all day long
Place: Digital Lab of the UAB Open Labs, Sala de Revistes of the Biblioteca d’Humanitats
Registration: Previous registration through the web form is required to be allowed to play. Registration can be done individually or as a team. If you do it as a team, you have to detail the rest of members of your team in the “Observacions” box of the form during your individual enrollment. If you sign up individually you will do the activity with other people who have also booked individually.
Talk: Publish in open acces at MDPI and with a 25% discount!
The UAB has recently joined the Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) of the publisher Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) offering UAB researchers and students a remarkable incentive to publish in MDPI journals at more affordable costs. This Swiss publisher is a pioneer in the publication of open access academic journals and offers a 25% discount to UAB members to publish in any of the more than 200 multidisciplinary scientific journals they have. All of them are open access with a CC-BY license.
Mr. Marcos Arranz, editor of ‘MDPI and Genes’, will explain in this talk how to publish in MDPI journals. Linked to this publisher for 2 years, Marcos has lead more than 20 publishing projects, has processed more than 100 articles of this journal and has represented ‘MDPI and Genes’ in 5 conferences at an international level.
Date: October 22nd
Time: 11-13h
Place: Sala de Graus. Edifici B. Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres
Registration: To attend the talk it is essential to formalize the registration through the form: https://www.bib.uab.cat/formacio/inscripcio.php?id=6006
Attendance certificates will not be delivered.
Publish on open access and gain visibility and impact!
The UAB Libraries Service participates in a micro-MOOC on Twitter on Open Science!
This year during the Open Access Week 18 Spanish universities and the CSIC –coordinated by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya– will participate in a MicroMOOC on Twitter to disseminate all aspects related to open science.
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Between October 21st and 25th, informational tweets will be posted through the @moocmicro account every day of the week. These tweets will treat different aspects of open science: open science introduction (Monday), open access publication (Tuesday), open research data (Wednesday), participatory research (Thursday) and research evaluation (Friday) with the objective of providing useful and quality information on this subject. |
- 09h MicroMOOC in English with this hashtag: #OpenScienceMOOC19
- 10h MicroMOOC in Catalan with this hashtag: #CiènciaObertaMOOC19
- 11h MicroMOOC in Spanish with this hashtag: #CienciaAbiertaMOOC19
- 12h MicroMOOC in Galician with this hashtag: #CienciaAbertaMOOC19
- 13h MicroMOOC in Basque with this hashtag: #ZientziaIrekiaMOOC19
Frenquently Asked Questions (PMF) about open access
If you want to have an answer to ...
- What is the open access?
- What are the ways of open access publication?
- If a research project obtains financial aid, is it mandatory to publish it in open access?
Maximize the visibility of your research by publishing in open access!