Open Access 2018 - Students

Contents

1. Case Study of Open Access (Images)

2. What is open access?

3. What is the cost of accessing research?

4. Participate in the following Open Access Week challenge for a chance to win!

✸ Here’s what you need to do for the CONTEST. ✸

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1. Case Study of Open Access (Images)

Hover over the image to see the details.

2. What is open access?

Open access refers to scholarly research that is freely available online, without cost or most licensing restrictions. It encourages the unrestricted sharing of research with everyone, everywhere.

3. What is the cost of accessing research?

Consider an individual academic journal article. How much do you think a researcher would have to pay to obtain access to all of the referenced works used to complete that article without affiliation to an academic institution?

To a university student, faculty member, or employee, access to any of these works is often free without any additional cost because their library has paid for that journal subscription. When we’re accessing research on campus or from home, we don’t often think of the cost behind getting access to that research. However, many are unable to read these journals or their articles without having to pay for each article they download. Without university affiliation, researchers have to pay for each individual article they would like to read or cite in their final paper! That is simply not an option for many around the world looking to publish their own research.

That’s where open access comes in. Promoting open access, a method of publishing that supports free, accessible research to all and not just those affiliated with an academic institution, benefits the global research community and those affected by their findings!

To read more about open access and what UofT is doing to support it, visit https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/copyright/open-access.

4. Participate in the following Open Access Week challenge for a chance to win!

Look at the paper above, “What Readers Have to Pay”

"The Early Collapse of the 2017 Lincoln Sea Ice Arch in Response to Anomalous Sea Ice and Wind Forcing" by G. W. K. Moore (Vice-Principal, Research; Professor, Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, UTM) & K. McNeil (Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, UTM).

Check the References section, outlined in red, on the article in the centre of the display. 33 sources—a book chapter, scholarly articles, newsletters, and a thesis—are cited in this paper. You can find the cost of each individual cited work listed in the References on the surrounding display.

✸ Here’s what you need to do for the CONTEST. ✸

Calculate the combined cost of all of the cited resources and let us know how much these researchers would need to pay IN CANADIAN DOLLARS (requires currency conversion) in order to produce this particular article if they didn’t have access to the resources through a library. Share your answer with us on Twitter or Instagram by tagging @utmlibrary and #openaccess in a tweet or Instagram comment. All participants with the correct answer will be entered into a draw to win a $25 UofT Bookstore gift card!

Interested in learning more? You can also see “What Researchers Have to Pay to Publish Open Access” using the same paper as an example in the adjacent display.

Follow @utmlibrary on Twitter and Instagram for more information on #OAWeek and open access!

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