by Graduate School and Van Pelt and Opie Library
This week, the Graduate School and the Van Pelt and Opie Library celebrate International Open Access Week. This event is organized by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) as an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about potential benefits of Open Access, share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.
This year, we’re marking Open Access Week by recognizing the 10 years of master’s theses, doctoral dissertations and master’s reports (ETDRs) that are freely available to the world through Digital Commons @ Michigan Tech, the University’s institutional repository. This collection of works is comprehensive back to 2012, and some are nearly a decade older. With Digital Commons, we’re provided with usage statistics that show activity on the platform and across the web. Throughout the week, we’ll share stories and insights informed by these statistics that speak to how publishing Open Access has benefitted Michigan Tech students. In the meantime, take a moment to check out the collection of ETDRs on Digital Commons @ Michigan Tech.
Please join us Wednesday (Oct. 19) at 3 p.m. in the East Reading Room of the library for a brief presentation, light refreshments and lively discussion on all things Open Access.