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The University of North Dakota (UND) is advancing its commitment to open access (OA) by engaging in read and publish agreements with major academic publishers. These agreements are designed to make scholarly research more accessible by allowing UND-affiliated authors to publish their work openly without incurring individual article processing charges (APCs). What Are Read and […]

In 2023, we celebrated International Open Access Week with the theme of “Community over Commercialization”. This year is a continuation of that theme. Community over commercialization essentially focuses on how we can advance open scholarship in a way that’s inclusive, equitable, and relies on shared governance.

International Open Access (OA) Week 2023 takes place from October 23rd through October 29th. This year’s theme, “Community over Commercialization”, focuses on which practices work and which don’t when promoting Open Scholarship to the public and academic community.

The Chester Fritz Library is happy to announce that, as of January 1, UND has entered a transformative open access agreement with Cambridge University Press (CUP), our first such agreement with a journal publisher.

In 2018 Chester Fritz Library adopted an Open Access Statement of Support, pledging to support open access in line with OneUND’s values of community, discovery, liberal arts, and lifelong learning. In service of this goal, we maintain UND’s open access institutional repository, the UND Scholarly Commons, as well as participate in administering UND’s OER grants as part of the […]