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Read and Publish Agreements

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Person sitting on a wooden floor, knees up. They are holding a messy stack of journals on their knees.

A couple weeks ago, we shared a post about the publishing industry and open access. The post pointed out the huge profit margins of major journal publishing firms and highlighted several library-led initiatives to counter the cycle of paying the researcher and paying to get the research. Another of the ways in which academic libraries […]

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Open Access Week 2023: Community Over Commercialization

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Open Access Week 2023 events will be held from October 23rd through the 29th. This year’s theme, “community over commercialization” provides an opportunity to raise awareness around the importance of community control of knowledge sharing systems. Open Access week was originally launched in 2008 by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) to foster […]