Open Access (OA) Week is an international event organized by SPARC, a nonprofit advocacy organization that supports open systems for research and education. OA Week in 2023 occurs from October 23rd-October 29th. This year’s theme encourages a candid conversation about which approaches to open scholarship prioritize the best interests of the public and the academic community—and which do not.
Open access (OA) is the free online distribution of digital literature. OA removes the barriers caused by subscription and licensing fees in order to promote scholarly growth. OA scholarly literature is free of charge and often carries less restrictive copyright and licensing barriers than traditionally published works, for both the users and the authors. The open access movement is transforming the traditional model of scholarly publishing and challenging established norms for the access, sharing, and re-purposing of knowledge.
While OA is a newer form of scholarly publishing, many OA journals comply with well-established peer-review processes and maintain high publishing standards. For more information, see Peter Suber's overview of Open Access.
Online | Register at https://libcal.health.unm.edu/event/11370379
The Health Sciences Library & Informatics Center is pleased to offer Open Access Publishing 101. This session will provide researchers and scholars with basic information about open access publishing including:
Models and paths to Open Access
Funding options such as article processing charges, publisher/transformative agreements, and including as a line item in grant proposals
How these options may influence selection of scholarly output
Open access publishing options currently available at UNM including existing publisher agreements, the UNM Digital Repository, and Native Health Database will also be discussed.
The UNM Digital Repository has provisions to create, manage and publish Open Access journals, datasets, posters and presentations.
Comprised of historic and contemporary research articles, reports, grey literature (and much more) intended to improve health outcomes for Indigenous populations, the Native Health Database embeds concepts of Indigenous Data Sovereignty into the management of the database – effectively encompassing a more nuanced “Open-ish” Access model for users.
Online and in the Waters Room, Zimmerman Library | Register at: https://libcal.unm.edu/calendar/register/digitalarchivingrint
The Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communication (DISC) at The University of New Mexico present a panel discussion on digital archives. We will be engaging with several poster designs held in the Center for Southwest Research at UNM to discuss the visual power of print, as well as how these images can motivate artists and curators, today. For the panel, which will include faculty at UNM, along with other scholars at museums and other institutions, we will be presenting questions like, “How do we maintain both physical and digital archives? How do we make certain that digital processes hold the integrity of the art? What are ways we can connect with artists, enthusiasts, patrons, and students for access to these archives that may enhance their work, their knowledge, and their art experience on a global scale? Most importantly, we want to discuss ways to create equitable pathways for better access to art, for all.
This event will be moderated by Marya Errin Jones, OER Fellow, MFA Candidate in Dramatic Writing, Department of Theatre and Dance
Carol A. Wells, Executive Director of Center for the Study of Political Graphics, is an activist, art historian, curator, lecturer, and writer. She has been collecting protest posters and producing poster exhibitions since 1981. Trained as a medievalist at UCLA, she taught the history of art and architecture for 13 years at CSU Fullerton. Her articles on political posters have appeared in numerous publications, and she has lectured extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad. In 1988, Wells founded the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, an activist, educational, and research archive with more than 90,000 human rights and protest posters from the 19th century to the present, including the largest collection of post-WWII political posters in the U.S. Political posters challenge the status quo, confront our preconceptions, and make us question the world and our responsibilities. By exhibiting posters from past and present struggles for social justice, Wells works to educate and inspire people to work for a better future.
Emily Sulzer, Archives Director for the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, began her time at the Center for the Study of Political Graphics as a volunteer in 2015. Sulzer oversees three other archivists in the cataloging, preservation, digitization, and management of CSPG’s collections. Sulzer received her MLIS from UCLA and her BA in Art History and Visual Art from Occidental College. She has worked on a variety of archival projects at arts institutions in Los Angeles, including the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, and the Getty Research Institute.
Dr. Kenneth Oravetz, Coordinator and Lecturer of Critical Text Analysis at the University of New Mexico and a Printmaker, received his Ph.D. in Literature from Northeastern University in Boston, MA in 2023. His research focuses on investigating contemporary media culture, materiality, and reading practices through the study of art comics. His pedagogy focuses on inclusive strategies for entwining instruction in reading comprehension, collegiate success, and multimodal rhetoric. His writing has appeared in Bubbles fanzine and in the comics studies journal among other venues. His printmaking experience includes risograph zines at Max’s Garage Press in Berkeley, CA, and works in letterpress at Huskiana Press in Boston, MA as part of the Letterpress Goes 3D digital humanities initiative.
Dr. Susanne Anderson-Riedel is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art: Studio, History, Education at the University of New Mexico. She received her M.A. in Art History from Freiburg, Germany, and her Ph.D. from UCLA with a focus on European art of the 18th and 19th centuries. Dr. Anderson-Riedel has extensive international experience, studying, working, and publishing in the U.S., Germany, France, and Italy. Dr. Anderson-Riedel’s book, Creativity and Reproduction: Nineteenth-Century Engraving and the Academy (2010), tells the story of the printmakers’ rise within the French Academy and their success in transforming a reproductive art form into a creative and original genre. Currently, Dr. Anderson-Riedel is preparing a book publication on the role of prints in the international discourse on politics, ideologies, and the arts in the global 18th century. She is also part of an international group of scholars who are preparing a publication on the lavish, 19th-century print albums titled Le Musée Français and their global distribution.
Nearly half of the 12,000 posters in the Sam L. Slick Collection have been archived through the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections. The Slick Collection, unparalleled in scope internationally, includes works of varying scale printed in serigraphy and offset lithography. The posters address themes like imperialism, solidarity, human rights, and revolution. The digitized versions are openly accessible to the public in the New Mexico Digital Collections.
The colorful posters in this online exhibit have been reproduced and will be on display in Zimmerman Library through Open Access Week.
For this year's Open Access Week events, the OA Week Team chose to physically display reproductions of several posters from the Sam L. Slick Collection of Latin American and Iberian posters in Zimmerman Library. These posters illustrate the 2023 theme of Open Access Week through their imagery and content. The posters in this collection are not openly licensed the way traditional Open Access materials are, but they are an example of primary texts that are openly accessible on the web through digitization.
This collection contains approximately 12,000 posters from Cuba, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, and the United States with corresponding descriptions. Currently, over nearly half of these posters have been digitized and made available for viewing through New Mexico's Digital Collections.
This first poster to the left announces the symposium Art and National Consciousness of Latin American Peoples, which was held at UCLA on November 21-22, 1981. This poster, designed by Carol Wells, was adapted from a 1980 Mural in Managua, Nicaragua by the San Francisco Based Chilean Exile “Orlando Letelier Brigade.”
The poster to the left, titled As Workers, as Students, as Campesinos, as Mexicanos, as Patriots, We Are a People Who Struggle!, was produced in support of student, worker, and agrarian movements in Mexico. The poster includes drawings of revolutionaries and activists from Mexico including Pancho Villa, Ricardo Flores Magon, and a soldadera.
This poster to the right, titled 1986/2006: Veinte años Taller 75 Grados, is a serigraph print and celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the serigraph workshop "Taller Setenta y Cinco Grados." The workshop was co-founded by Rafael López Castro located in the Centro area of Mexicp City.
11 mo. Festival de Shakespeare is an expressionistic image by Ángel Vega, in which a woman tends to a person who survived a ship wreck in the Caribbean. The ship can be seen on the horizon. This poster is part of the Sam L. Slick Collection of Latin American Posters in the Center for Southwest Research.
Sam L. Slick Collection of Latin American and Iberian Posters, contains approximately 10,000 posters from Cuba, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, and the United States with corresponding descriptions. Currently, over 4,000 of these posters have been photographed and are available to view through New Mexico's Digital Collections. The Slick Collection, unparalleled in scope internationally, includes works of varying scale printed in serigraphy and offset lithography. The posters address themes like imperialism, solidarity, human rights, and revolution. The digitized versions are openly accessible to the public in the New Mexico Digital Collections.
The poster to the left is titled Una Actividad Muy Antigua en Nuestro País,” and it is part of the Sam L. Slick Collection of Latin American Political Posters. The poster, created by Marissa Lara and Arturo Guerrero in 1987, was created in Mexico and illustrates fishing during the Pre-Columbian era. Nearly half of the 12,000 posters in this collection have been archived through the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections.
The poster portrayed to the left is titled La Pesca Es Una Actividad Colectiva, and it illustrates that the fishing industry is a communal activity. This poster is part of is part of the "La Vida" series within the Sam L. Slick Collection of Latin American Posters. These posters are archived through the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections. Digitally, you can discover more of the collection at the New Mexico Digital Collection.
El Aprendizaje de Pescador, pictured to the right, illustrates that the apprentice fisherman starts at an early age, and it includes animated drawings of mermaids from popular art framing a fishing scene. The University of New Mexico Libraries is highlighting the Sam L. Slick Collection of Latin American Posters, archived through the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections because many posters in the collection embody the importance of community over commercialization, a theme that is important and being highlighted during Open Access Week 2023.