Open Access

Colloquium Series: Open Access Edition, 10/26/2017

On October 26th, faculty members at the University Libraries presented on topics in open access, open data, and open educational resources as part of the Libraries’ programming in observance of Open Access Week.   These lightning talks addressed topical issues in open access.  Jamie Saragossi, Jessica Koos, and Gregg Stevens

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SBU Libraries Colloquium: Open Access Edition

Please join the University Libraries for a colloquium event to showcase the research and professional development activities of our faculty and staff.  The lightning talks in this session will treat various topics related to open access, including open access to health information, open educational resources, and open data.   We

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Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

SBU students from the Program in Writing and Rhetoric helped diversify Wikipedia yesterday (Oct 24th) with Lane Raspberry, Wikipedia Editor, and Marika Cifor, from Bowdoin College. Professors Kristina Lucenko and Cynthia Davidson worked with their students to help expand Wikipedia resources related to disability studies, mental health, ethnic/minority and marginalized peoples,

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Open Access Week Events

Stony Brook University Libraries is marking Open Access Week, October 23 – 27, with a series of events to raise awareness of open access, open education, the new Stony Brook University Open Access Policy, and trends in scholarly publishing and research data. Friday, October 20 Scholarly Publishing & Research Outputs WHEN:

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OER: Open Educational Resources

OER are Open Educational Resources.  Open Educational Resources are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, textbooks, syllabi, lectures, lecture notes, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical

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Green Open Access

Open Access is the free, unrestricted sharing of scholarly articles and other works online.  Open Access removes access barriers making research and scholarship available to all. On February 6,2017, Stony Brook University Senate adopted an Open Access Policy for SBU authors.  The SBU Policy is a Green Open Access initiative;

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Deposit Your Article

Initially, all authors will manually add their articles to Academic Commons. A publication management system is being investigated to make participation easier for authors. Academic Commons Quick Deposit (PDF). Deposit is managed through Academic Commons, SBU’s open access scholarly repository and publishing platform. Click on the Deposit Your Article link to begin the deposit process –

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University Senate Adopts Open Access Policy

The SBU University Senate adopted an Open Access Policy on February 6, 2017.  Open access means unrestricted online access to scholarly articles. The policy demonstrates SBU’s commitment to sharing the fruits of research and scholarship as widely as possible, and complying with public access mandates of grant-funded research. Participation in

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Open Access Policy Contact

For any questions specifically about the waiver/embargo/addendum request form or the Academic Commons Open Access Scholarly Repository, please contact: Open Access Team Center for Scholarly Communication University Libraries openaccess@stonybrook.edu For questions about scholarly publishing, research data or questions about this site, please contact: Mona Ramonetti Head of Scholarly Communication University Libraries

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