International Open Access Week, a global event that entered its seventeenth year in 2024, is an opportunity for Open Access advocates to engage and teach their communities about the potential benefits of free access to information.
Open Access Week brings the scholarly community together in the hopes of making Open Access—when research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges—a new norm in scholarship and research. This year's theme for Open Access Week is "Community over Commercialization."
The theme of International Open Access Week for 2024 will continue with last year’s focus on “Community over Commercialization.” This theme contributed to a growing recognition of the need to prioritize approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the public and the academic community. Taking the unprecedented step to build on this theme for a second year highlights the importance of this conversation and presents the opportunity to turn more of these deliberations into collective action.
October 21, 2024, 11:00am-12:00pm. Register for this Zoom session
Explore the evolving landscape of Open Access in this session featuring two key presentations. We will begin with an environmental scan revealing how North American universities are supporting OA initiatives and addressing challenges. This will be followed by insights from an academic consortial perspective, focusing on the challenges of implementing consortial transformative agreements and sharing approaches for navigating them. This session aims to provide practical strategies for institutions looking to enhance support for authors and promote sustainable OA models.
Robyn M. Gleasner is the Resource Management Librarian for the Resources Archives and Discovery Unit at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center. She is responsible for the selection and acquisition of resources for the UNM Health Sciences Center. She negotiates license agreements with vendors and is interested in publishing trends such as open access and emerging technologies such as AI.
Laura J. Hall is the Division Head Resources Archives & Discovery at the University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center (HSLIC). In this role, she provides leadership in collection development, preservation of special collections, technical services, and open access initiatives. Recently, she has specialized in AI integration in education, offering trainings such as the AI Crossroads series to support the university’s evolving educational landscape.
Danielle Maurici-Pollock, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor and Research Data Specialist at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library & Informatics Center (UNM HSLIC), where she is leading efforts to expand educational offerings and services related to research data management and sharing. Her research examines the drivers, consequences, and contexts of the adoption of new information technologies and practices. Danielle is this year’s recipient of the Beta Phi Mu Award for distinguished service to education for librarianship.
George Machovec is the Executive Director of the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries. He is responsible for the overall management of the consortium and has been involved with the Prospector regional union catalog, the Alliance Shared Print Trust, e-resource licensing, and the Gold Rush collection analytics service. He was the managing editor of The Charleston Advisor and is currently the consortium column editor for the Journal of Library Administration.
October 21, 2024, 1:00 p.m., Register for this session, offered as a hybrid event, online and in the Frank Waters Room in Zimmerman Library, Room 105
Come explore the principles of openness and inclusivity and learn about ways UNM researchers are making education as widely available as possible through AI tools. This Open Access Week session, available to the public, will afford attendees the chance to learn about curriculum developed by University of New Mexico instructors to meet the needs of their students. This research project was tailored to support faculty and instructors across diverse disciplines to use AI for OER development. AI tools can empower educators and learners with tools to create, customize, and adapt open educational resources.
Projects from this program include the development of case studies and assignments and even a chatbot tailored to beginner and intermediate Russian language learners. Members of the Graduate and Faculty Engagement team within the University Libraries will also be on hand to talk about this program and share content and ideas. Speakers for this event include University Librarians David Gustavsen and Jennifer Jordan and UNM faculty members Jeffrey Houdek, Irina Meier, and Xaver Neumeyer.
Refreshments will be served at the in-person event happening in the Frank Waters room 105 inside Zimmerman Library. Registration for this event is recommended.
David Gustavsen is a Librarian with the University of New Mexico Libraries and is part of the Graduate and Faculty Engagement team. He has a Master’s of Library Science from Indiana University Bloomington (2016) and a Master’s of Fine Arts from Syracuse University (2013). Before coming to UNM, David was a Humanities Librarian at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Jeffrey T. Houdek, Lecturer II in the Teacher Education and Educational Leadership Department at the University of New Mexico’s College of Education and Human Sciences, brings over 30 years of experience in education. He holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics Education from Harvard University and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin. In addition to his academic work, Jeffrey owned and operated a family medical practice, overseeing strategic, financial, and operational functions. A dedicated educator and leader, he is also an 11-time Ironman triathlete, demonstrating his commitment to perseverance and excellence both in and out of the classroom.
Jennifer Jordan works as an Open Educational Resource (OER) Librarian in the College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences at the University of New Mexico. She is the principal investigator on a federal open textbook grant focused on growing the use of Open Education in New Mexico, as well as a former English teacher who developed OER curriculum with her peers at Central New Mexico Community College.
Irina Meier is a Senior Lecturer of Russian and the Director of the Russian Program in the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Literatures. Her scholarly expertise focuses on digital humanities in teaching and research, as well as cultural studies, with a particular focus on violence in modern society, postcolonial collective memory in Chechen culture, and Russian and Chechen cinema. With regard to AI, she is interested in the role of multimodal systems in language learning and in postcolonial knowledge production in historically marginalized communities.
Dr. Xaver Neumeyer is an Assistant Professor at the Anderson School of Management, University of New Mexico (UNM). His academic focus lies in the intersection of entrepreneurship, technology management, and innovation, with a particular emphasis on how these areas impact economically disadvantaged communities. His research delves into how low-income entrepreneurs utilize technology to develop and sustain their businesses, offering insights into the unique challenges and strategies employed by this demographic.
Before joining UNM, Dr. Neumeyer held academic positions at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he also contributed significantly to research and teaching in the fields of entrepreneurship and management. His work has been published in notable academic journals, and he has been recognized for his contributions to understanding the role of technology in entrepreneurial processes, particularly in contexts of poverty and economic development.
Dr. Neumeyer is also actively involved in academic leadership and curriculum development, contributing to the academic community through both his research and teaching efforts at UNM.
Gold open access means that a publication is immediately provided in open access mode through a high-quality open access publication channel, that is, an open access journal. In this case, the publisher is responsible for providing the article in open access mode immediately. The publisher may charge an open access fee (article processing charge).
Hybrid open access refers to a combination of subscription-based and free-of-charge publishing. This means that the author pays a fee (APC) determined by the publisher to make the article freely available. Otherwise the journal is only available to readers who have paid the subscription fee. Some hybrid journals allow for Green Open Access publishing in a researcher's institutional repository or on their own webpage. Sites like Sherpa Romeo can help researchers identify the Open Access policies of thousands of journals.
Diamond / Platinum OA Journals refer to open access journals that don't charge any author fees (APC - Article Processing Charges). They are usually financed by a university or research organization.
