[GOAL] Open Access Week at Cambridge University - Monday

[Danny Kingsley]

<Apologies for cross posting>

Dear All,

Welcome to Open Access Week 2017! At the Office of Scholarly Communication at Cambridge University we are celebrating with a series of blog posts, events and announcements. We will send out a daily notice and information will be added to our OA Week webpage https://osc.cam.ac.uk/open-access/open-access-week-2017 throughout the week.

Blogs

Each day we will be publishing a blog post written by a different member of the Office of Scholarly Communication team. Continuing on from the tradition of last year, Cambridge is sharing an analysis of how our work is available above and beyond in the University repository, Apollo. You can compare and contrast (if you desire) with last year’s figures https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=1080 Read the new blog How open is Cambridge? 2017 edition here: http://ow.ly/HL4Y30g12tY

Announcement 1 - Properties of expanding Open Access

We are delighted to announce that Professor Stephen Hawking has granted the University of Cambridge permission to make his thesis freely available and Open Access in Apollo. Our most hotly requested University of Cambridge doctoral thesis by far has long been Prof. Hawking’s ‘Properties of expanding universes’, published in 1966, and we are thrilled that this seminal work is now available freely and openly to anyone in the world. Download Prof. Hawking’s thesis here: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.11283

Announcement 2  - Digital theses revolution at the University of Cambridge

We are also excited to announce that the University of Cambridge is now enabling wider dissemination of the unique doctoral research carried out across the University. In order to prevent the need to retroactively digitise PhD theses, from October 2017 all PhD students graduating from the University of Cambridge will be required to deposit an electronic copy of their work for future preservation. The Board of Graduate Studies is opening the digital borders to researchers from across the globe, and allowing unprecedented access to Cambridge’s treasure trove of doctoral research. Find out more here https://osc.cam.ac.uk/theses

Events - Monday

Today the talk ‘Improving Openness and Reproducibility of Scientific Research’ will be taking place, featuring Dr Timothy Errington and hosted by the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. Come along at 4pm and find out about the cultural changes needed to improve scientific communication. But if you cannot make it have no fear! We will be filming this event and sharing this recording later in the week: https://crukcambridgecentre.org.uk/events/mon-23-oct-1600-improving-openness-and-reproducibility-scientific-research

Also on Monday 23 October, from 5.00-6.30pm as part of the Festival of Ideas, OSC team members Katie Hughes and Lucy Welch will be presenting alongside the Moore Library’s Georgina Cronin on the topic of Fake News at the event ‘Popping the Filter Bubble: How Facts Can Help You’. This event is sold out currently, but you are welcome to show up and see if there is space on the night for this interactive event. Find out more here:  https://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/limited-tickets-may-be-available-door-popping-filter-bubble-how-facts-can-help-you

Events during the week

On Tuesday we will be offering a webinar, ‘How to Spot a Predatory Publisher’ https://www.training.cam.ac.uk/osc/event/2246800 A recording of this webinar will be made available to those registered after the event.

On Wednesday we will be hosting one of our popular ‘Helping Researchers Publish’ events, for the first time ever tailored for researchers and research support staff in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences: https://www.training.cam.ac.uk/osc/event/2246836

This event will bring together publishers and funders to discuss topics ranging from searching for a suitable publishing platform to book processing charges:

·         Chris Harrison (Cambridge University Press)

·         James Purdon (Technographies, Open Humanities Press)

·         Gemma Ware (The Conversation)

·         Philip Cohen (SocArXiv)

·         Rupert Gatti (Open Book Publishers)

·         Dr Dora Alexopoulou and Dr Lisa-Maria Mueller (Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge)

·         Lara Speicher (UCL Press)

Finally, on Friday we will be holding another ‘Helping Researchers Publish’ morning, this time for researchers and research support staff in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics: https://www.training.cam.ac.uk/osc/event/2246398

As with our event on Wednesday, this event brings together publishers and funders to talk about various aspects of publishing. Here, speakers will cover topics from DIY OA journals to data publishing:

·         Miriam Frankel (The Conversation)

·         Nicola Stead (PLOS)

·         Chris Harrison (Cambridge University Press)

·         Brian Cody (Scholastica)

·         Dr Sabina Alam (F1000)

·         Andrew L. Hufton (Scientific Data)


In addition to the live audience, we will invite engagement via Twitter throughout the discussion and recordings of both Helping Researchers Publish events will be made available via the Cambridge University Library YouTube channel.

Dr Danny Kingsley
Deputy Director - Scholarly Communication & Research Services
Cambridge University Library
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