Oxford Festival of Open Scholarship 6–17 March 2023 – conference programme now live and bookings open

Posted on 10 February 2023 by iholowaty

What in the world is going on with open access and open research? Come along and hear from an array of national and international speakers – and find out. It’s a great opportunity to explore and debate issues, and jointly look for solutions.

The varied programm will be of interest to researchers, postgraduates and research support staff.

Organised by the Bodleian Libraries, OxFOS will cover a range of topical sessions online, including:

The Importance of Being Open: publishing OA Monographs
Humanities has data! What(ever) next? [relevant to anybody creating ‘data’ such as transcribing from archives, translating sources, oral history, collecting images, etc.]
Crowdsourcing in the Digital Humanities
Research@Oxford
Reviewer needed: The future of peer review in academic publishing
The Future of Copyright: this house believes copyright reform is needed to fully achieve an open access future – Express interest
and many more

Sessions range between half hour talks and two-hour workshops. Some events are public, and some are restricted to University of Oxford staff and students.

To learn more about OA with a bit of fun, two in-person events are on offer: Open Access Escape Room and Play the ‘Publishing Trap’ board game.

Visit the OxFOS webpage for the schedule information and to book sessions.

We hope to interest and inspire you!

New OA journal: Medieval Worlds, 1 (2015)-

Posted on 13 September 2016 by iholowaty

Medieval Worlds (ISSN: 2412-3196) is an Open Access double‐blind peer reviewed journal covering interdisciplinary and transcultural studies of the Middle Ages. It is published semi-annually the Austrian Academy of Science (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW)) and is licensed under the Creative‐Commons‐Attribution NonCommercial‐NoDerivs 4.0 Unported (CC BY‐NC‐ND 4.0).

The journal “encourages and links comparative research between different regions and fields and promotes methodological innovation in transdisciplinary studies. Focusing on the Middle Ages (c. 400 ‐ 1500 CE, but can be extended whenever thematically fruitful or appropriate) medieval worlds takes a global approach to studying history in a comparative setting.

Building upon studies of transcultural relations and processes of cultural hybridization between cultures, both of which have seen dynamic developments in recent years, the main approach chosen by medieval worlds is comparative. Taking such a comparative approach will not only allow researchers to highlight the global interaction within, or hybrid nature of particular cultural spheres, but also shed new light on more specific fields of interest. Moreover, medieval worlds will encourage a critical debate between the disciplines concerning approaches and methods, and thus will help to enrich the methodological frameworks of comparative history.” From http://www.medievalworlds.net/medieval_worlds, accessed 13 Sept 2016.

This journal will be soon added to SOLO and OU eJournals.

Bodleian iSkills Open Access Oxford – what’s happening? 27 July 2-3pm

Posted on 19 July 2016 by iholowaty

Through the summer vacation Bodleian Libraries is continuing to run its monthly session on Open Access at Oxford. Please book online by following the title link.

Bodleian iSkills: Open Access Oxford – what’s happening? (Tuesday 27^th July 14:00-15:00)

A briefing on open access publishing and Oxford’s position including REF requirements for Open Access and ‘Act on Acceptance’; Green vs. Gold open access options; funder mandates and publisher policies; Oxford Research Archive (ORA) and Symplectic and the OA website/ helpline.

Who is this session for? Oxford University Research support staff, administrators and librarians, researchers and academics.
Presenters: Juliet Ralph and Kate Beeby
Venue: Training Room, Radcliffe Science Library

Keeping up with Bodleian Libraries training opportunities? Why not follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/bodleianskills or visit the Bodleian iSkills blog at http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/skills/.

Questions? – Please contact usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

New: Journal for the History of Environment and Society, 1, 2016-

Posted on 15 July 2016 by iholowaty

The new Journal for the History of Environment and Society, 1, 2016- (ISSN 2506-6730) is now listed on SOLO and OU eJournals but is of course freely available at http://www.brepolsonline.net/loi/jhes.

This is a double-blind peer-review Open Access journal, distributed by Brepols.

It “aims to be a leading on-line and open-access magazine that covers various aspects of environmental history in the broadest sense of the word. Emphasis is upon studies which focus on the historical relations between environmental changes and the social-historical context. Interregional and international comparative articles are getting special attention.

Geographically, the journal is primarily – but not exclusively – focusing on NW-Europe including areas that had historical relations with that broad region. Articles with a more general geographic scope can also be published in the Journal.”

See http://jheswebsite.com/mission.html for more details.

You can set up Table of Content (ToC) alerts and RSS feeds provided by Brepols.

Content of Vol. 1 (2016)

Maïka De Keyzer, All we are is dust in the wind: The social causes of a “subculture of coping” in the late medieval covers and belt
Ivan Hoste, Denis Diagre-Vanderpelen, Belgian botany in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: from plant hunting to nascent nature conservation
Peder Roberts, Dolly Jørgensen, Animals as instruments of Norwegian imperial authority in the interwar Arctic
Frank Uekötter, City meets Country: Recycling ideas and realities on German sewage farms

Act on Acceptance and Open Access – briefing sessions for postholders

Posted on 16 November 2015 by iholowaty

Publishing Oxford historians are invited to attend briefing sessions this term which are designed to update you on the HEFCE policy for the next REF and what you need to do in order to make your research output compliant. Learn about the Oxford University’s Act on Acceptance campaign and how to deposit your journal articles and conference proceedings in Symplectic.

Briefing sessions for Faculty postholders with the History Librarian

Mon. 23 Nov. 12.30-1.30pm, Rees Davies Room, History Faculty
Thurs. 26 Nov. 12.00-1.00pm, Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty

No need to sign up but bring along a laptop for some playtime if you can.

Bodleian iSkills: Open Access Oxford – what’s happening?

Monday 30th November 12:00-13:00 (Week 8)

Another chance to attend the briefing on open access publishing and Oxford’s position. During the session we will cover “Green” and “Gold” routes to open access; funder mandates and publisher policies; the Oxford Research Archive (ORA) and Symplectic; the HEFCE policy on open access and how to get help via the Open Access web site and helpline.

Presenters: Juliet Ralph and Hilla Wait
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, Parks Road

> Book a place

Finding Brill Open Access monographs in SOLO: tips

Posted on 10 November 2015 by iholowaty

As more and more monographs also become Open Access, our colleagues in the Bodleian Library are cataloguing those so they can be found and accessed via SOLO.

For instance, if you wanted to find Brill Open Access monographs in SOLO, then simply search for:

“brill online books and journals” “open access”

You can then use the facets on the side to explore which subjects are covered.

Look out for more Open Access monographs. They are freely available and, now that they are integrated into SOLO, should also be discoverable in addition to our purchased and Legal Deposit collections.

Open Access ‘FOSTER’ event – Tue 21 April 2015

Posted on 25 March 2015 by iholowaty

FOSTER PROJECT 2020 Vision : Making your research output compliant

21st April 2015, Keble College, University of Oxford

Full event programme available

This event is free and lunch will be provided. Places are limited, please book online.

This event is designed to update graduate students and researchers at Oxford on Open Access (OA) Policy requirements and expectations with special emphasis on the practical implications for researchers. The intention is to provide information about OA Policies, how to make research compliant, and how to meet REF 2020 requirements.

The programme will include:

Keynote presentations from representatives of HEFCE and HORIZON 2020
Updates on University OA implementation policy, projects and services created by libraries and academic services
Presentations about institutional repositories – Oxford Research Archive (ORA) and ORA-data
An insight into open access academic repositories – Zenodo, Europe PubMed Central and arXiv
Q&A sessions will provide practical advice on how to make publications freely available

For enquiries about the event please contact ljilja.ristic@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.

The event is supported by a grant from the FOSTER project https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/.

#fosteropenscience

Open Access week: 20-24 October

Posted on 16 October 2014 by iholowaty

Next week the Bodleian Libraries will be running the following talks and workshops for Open Access week. These events will be of particular interest to researchers, academics and postgraduates. > book a place at any of these talks.

In addition, please note that the session next Thursday (iSkills: Your thesis, copyright and ORA) is particularly relevant to DPhil students all of whom are required to deposit their thesis in the ORA repository.

Open Access: The rise of open data-centric research and publication enterprises – exemplars in the life sciences (Mon 20 October 14.00-15.00)

Dr Susanna-Assunta Sansone (Associate Director, Oxford e-Research Centre and Honorary Academic Editor, NPG Scientific Data) will speak on the rise of open data-centric research and publication enterprises. Data sharing practices in life sciences and the importance of making yours more easily reusable will also be covered. Susanna is a co-founder of BioSharing (reproducible research) and blogs about Open Data on the Guardian Higher Education Network.

Who is this session for? Postgraduates, academics, research staff and anyone else interested in Open Access.

Venue: Training Room, Radcliffe Science Library

iSkills: Open Access Oxford – What’s happening? (Tues 21 October 12.00 – 13.00)

A briefing on open access publishing and Oxford’s position aimed particularly at researchers and academics with a funder mandate to make their publications available on an open access basis. The session will cover Green vs. Gold; funder mandates and publisher policies; Oxford Research Archive (ORA) and Symplectic; OA website/ helpline; what’s new – update on new HEFCE policy.

Who is this session for? Current Oxford research postgraduates, researchers, academics, University and Library staff.

Presenters: Juliet Ralph and Craig Finlay

Venue: Training Room, Radcliffe Science Library

Open Access: The Open Library of Humanities – Gold Open Access for the humanities without author-facing charges (Wed 22 October, 14.00-15.00)

Dr Martin Eve (Lecturer in English, University of Lincoln and OLH Co-Founder) will speak about OLH, ‘a project exploring a PLOS-style model for the humanities and social sciences’. Martin is on the JISC OAPEN-UK project committee, chief editor of Orbit, and writes about Open Access for the Guardian Higher Education Network.

Who is this session for? Postgraduates, academics, research staff and anyone else interested in Open Access.

Venue: Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road

iSkills: Your thesis, copyright and ORA (Thurs 23 Oct 10.00 – 11.00)

Oxford DPhil students are required to deposit a digital copy of their thesis in ORA (Oxford University Research Archive). Find out how to deposit the digital copy of your thesis and what you need to know about rights and other issues.

Who is this session for? Doctoral research students.

Presenter: Sarah Barkla

Venue: Training Room, Radcliffe Science Library > Book online

To book a place at any of these workshops please visit http://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/open-access-week-2014-at-oxford/.

Open Access Monographs: Oxford forum, 18/06/14

Posted on 29 April 2014 by ljones

On Wednesday 18th June, there will be an opportunity for Oxford academics and researchers to debate the issues around scholarly monographs and Open Access. Both publishers and funders will be in attendance, with speakers including Geoffrey Crossick (HEFCE project, Chair), Cecy Marden (Wellcome Trust), Frances Pinter (Knowledge Unlatched) and Rhodri Jackson (OUP; OAPEN-UK project). At the end of the forum there will be a Questions and Answers panel joined by Sally Rumsey (Oxford Research Archive), which should provide for further discussion of the current challenges and initiatives in Open Access monograph publishing. It is anticipated that the dialogue of the forum will feed into HEFCE’s Monographs and Open Access project.

The event will be held at the Radcliffe Humanities Lecture Room between 2-5:30pm. All are welcome, but booking is advised. For further details on the forum and securing your place, see the poster below or visit http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/TZ005.

New ejournal: Translating the Americas, 1 (2013)-

Posted on 3 April 2014 by iholowaty

The University of Michigan’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies has launched Translating the Americas (ISSN 2331-687X), a online open-access journal.

“Translating the Americas supports collaborations between University of Michigan faculty and overseas colleagues. This journal makes UM faculty research about Latin America and the Caribbean available in Spanish, Portuguese or Kreyol and it provides English translations of important works originally written in Spanish, French, and Portuguese. ”

The journal can be accessed here. It is also listed in SOLO and OU eJournals.

Table of Content v 1 (Fall 2013):

Las migraciones de Arturo Schomburg: Ser Antillano, Negro y Puertorriqueño en Nueva York. 1891-1917 / Hoffnung-Garskof, Jesse
Slavery in Brazil: Brazilian Scholars in the Key Interpretive Debates / Hébrard, Jean M.
Affirmative Action: An Opinion Submitted to the Brazilian Supreme Court in the Case ADPF/186 / Felipe de Alencastro, Luiz
O Trabalho Escravo Contemporâneo e os Usos da História / Scott, Rebecca J.
Labor Analogous to Slavery: The Construction of a Problem / de Castro Gomes, Angela
Re-enslavement, Rights and Justice in Nineteenth-Century Brazil / Grinberg, Keila

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