Universal Access
These are 30-minute workshop sessions held via Zoom on the 3rd Tuesday of the month. To accommodate different schedules, they are held twice on that day, once at 12:15pm and again at 5:15pm. Each month will cover a specific topic that relates to the information and/or scholarly landscape. While some topics will have themes that carry across months, each session is designed to be a stand-alone focus on a topic within that theme.
These sessions will include activities and engaged discussions, so attendees become more familiar with the content and are able to immediately put the information and skills covered into practice. These sessions are offered by the Health Sciences Libraries. While examples used are typically geared towards those in the health sciences, anyone who has an interest in the topic is welcome to attend as much of the information and skills covered is transferable to any discipline.
Interested in learning about something that is not listed below? Let me know at kdebose@vt.edu and we'll look to add that into our series!
What are APCs and how do they factor into publishing in Open Access (OA) journals? Am I forced to find funding or are there any other options available to me to make my works openly available? How can I find what I can or cannot legally do with my previously published papers to make them openly available? How can others find my openly available works? Come join us to hear how these questions can help you determine your options for your own previous and future publications.
The Open Access movement has many, many benefits to getting scholarship and research out to everyone, but it has also created an environment with less-than savory players. How can you determine if the journal you wish to publish in is a high-quality outlet, or falls under the realm of spitting out tons of papers or is there with the sole purpose of making a profit with little regard to the scientific process? This session will provide you with tips to make an informed decision as to where you may want to publish your work.
Over the past few years NIH and NSF funding agencies have started to require that the results of funded research be made publicly accessible, with recent changes to immediately upon publication with no embargo. There has also been a move to make scholarship Open Access (OA). This session will cover some of the history as well as what the similarities and differences are to public access and open access. Using this information, attendees will be able to comply with these mandates as they disseminate their funded research findings.
