Join the Penn Libraries in celebrating Open Access Week, an annual opportunity for the academic and research community to learn about the potential benefits of open access and share their insights with colleagues. 

The Penn Libraries and the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities are marking this year’s theme, Open for Climate Justice, with a free public event on October 27: Seeking Environmental Justice in Philadelphia: Creating a Path for All Voices. Register to attend and hear about the Reeves family’s ongoing work to ameliorate harms and create opportunities in Grays Ferry, a predominantly Black community directly next to the refinery’s old north yard. This moderated conversation intends to prompt consideration of how rapid response collection and openly accessible archival practices can support community advocates and environmental justice.

Find Open Access Resources

The libraries support open access publishing year-round through a number of resources and initiatives, including providing support connected to the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s recent guidance to make all taxpayer-funded research available to the American public with no embargo and at no cost.

Browse the libraries’ online resources or contact a subject librarian to learn more about:

• The basics of open access publishing and how to share your work through open access and Creative Commons licenses.
• Identifing quality publishing venues for your work, including those that are open access.
• Understanding copyright as it relates to academic publishing and authors’ rights, fair use, and open access content.
• Sharing and accessing work, including research data, through ScholarlyCommons, Penn’s openly accessible institutional repository. New features and an updated look and feel are coming to the platform in 2023, including the ability to mint digital persistent identifiers for research outputs and integrate with ORCID for researchers.

Through November, the libraries are hosting series of workshops covering all elements of the academic publishing process in collaboration with the Graduate Student Center at Penn. Tune in to live virtual sessions covering citation management, impact metrics, promoting your work, selecting the right publishing venue, fair use, and more. Find the full suite of publishing workshops online and register to attend.