[GOAL] Open Access Week at the Office of Scholarly Communication, Cambridge - Wednesday

[Danny Kingsley]

<Apologies for cross posting>

Hello all,

Wednesday already and we are halfway through Open Access week, but there 
is no slowing down.

*Blog*
Today's blog 'Theses - releasing an untapped resource' 
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=993 is written by Dr 
Matthias Ammon and discusses the sharing of born digital theses and the 
issues and projects around digitising and sharing older print-only 
versions of PhDs.

*Announcement*

The Office of Scholarly Communication is pleased to able to announce 
that from late November we will be running a pilot for the electronic 
submission of PhD theses for the academic year 2016/17. In cooperation 
with several departments from across the University we will be 
requesting that PhD students in these departments who are submitting 
their thesis this year also upload a copy to Apollo. Our external 
developers are currently putting the final touches to the upload form 
which will make the whole process smooth and straightforward. Authors 
will be encouraged to make their theses available Open Access though 
this is not mandatory. More information can be found at 
http://osc.cam.ac.uk/theses/digital-thesis-pilot

In order to release more of our older theses the Office of Scholarly 
Communication has entered into an agreement with the British Library to 
make a selection of 1,4000 theses the BL has on microfilm available in 
digital form. We have selected the titles and the digitisation is 
occurring now. We hope to have these uploaded into the repository 
towards the end of the year.

*Events*

Today we will be holding a debate - */"Open Access: grassroots movement 
or top-down imposition?"/* 
http://osc.cam.ac.uk/open-access-grassroots-movement-or-top-down-imposition-panel-discussion-open-access-week-2016 where 
panellists will discuss this question and any related questions from the 
audience and general public. *You can send your questions via Twitter to 
**#OAWeekCam *The event will be live streamed from 1pm today and can be 
viewed at http://osc.cam.ac.uk/open-access/open-access-week-2016.

The panel are:

  * Mark Patterson - Executive Director, eLife and former Director of
    Publishing at PLoS
  * Kirstie Whitaker - Cambridge neuroscience researcher, advocate of
    open science and organiser of OpenCon Cam 2015 and 2016
  * Matt Hodgkinson - Head of Research Integrity at Hindawi, formerly
    editor at PLoS ONE and BioMed Central
  * Stuart Lawson - researcher at Birkbeck, University of London
    undertaking a PhD in the politics of open access.


If you missed yesterday's talk */"Preprints: biomedical science 
publication in the era of Twitter and Facebook"/* 
http://osc.cam.ac.uk/preprints-biomedical-science-publication-era-twitter-and-facebook 
It can now be viewed at 
http://osc.cam.ac.uk/open-access/open-access-week-2016 and the Twitter 
hashtag was*#pptsCamOA*

-- 
Dr Danny Kingsley
Head, Office of Scholarly Communication
Cambridge University Library
West Road, Cambridge CB39DR
P: +44 (0) 1223 747 437
M: +44 (0) 7711 500 564
E: dak45 at cam.ac.uk
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