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Happy International Open Access Week! This year’s theme, “Open In Action,” focuses on steps being taken to open research and scholarship while encouraging others to do the same.

In this spirit, we encourage everyone who has published an article or presented at a conference (paper, poster, etc.) in the past year to make a copy of their work available in the Rice Digital Scholarship Archive, Rice’s institutional repository. By contributing to the collection of existing staff work, you can help to highlight the work being done at Fondren and make available scholarship that colleagues at other institutions will likely find very useful.

Making your work available is easy! You can either deposit the work yourself or DSS staff can deposit it for you. Simply email cds@rice.edu with your preference.

Thanks for helping to further open access at Rice!

In February 2013, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a memo entitled “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research.”  It directs all federal research agencies to develop and implement open access plans over the next several years.

The OSTP directed agencies to submit proposals for compliance by August 22, 2013. Although many details are still unknown, it is very important for academic institutions—in particular, academic libraries—to closely monitor developments and proactively assess existing resources to ensure compliance.

In response to inevitable changes, a Public Access Working Group has been formed, comprised of members from different Fondren departments. The purpose of this working group is to conduct an assessment of Fondren’s ability to meet new federal public access requirements.

Be on the lookout for the group’s report later in the semester!

Learn more about the SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE)—a model for making federally funded publications available—that is supported by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL): http://www.arl.org/focus-areas/public-access-policies/shared-access-research-ecosystem-share