Connect Your Scholarship: Open Access Week 2016

Open Access Week 2016

Open Access connects your scholarship to the world, and for the week of Oct. 24-28, the UC Berkeley Library is highlighting these connections with five exciting workshops and panels.

What’s Open Access?

Open Access (OA) is the free, immediate, online availability of scholarship. Often, OA scholarship is also free of accompanying copyright or licensing reuse restrictions, promoting further innovation. OA removes barriers between readers and scholarly publications—connecting readers to information, and scholars to emerging scholarship and other authors with whom they can collaborate, or whose work they can test, innovate with, and expand upon.

Open Access Week @ UC Berkeley

OA Week 2016 is a global effort to bring attention to the connections that OA makes possible. At UC Berkeley, the University Library—with participation from partners like the D-Lab, California Digital Library, DH@Berkeley, and more—has put together engaging programming demonstrating OA’s connections in action. We hope to see you there.

Schedule

To register for these events and find out more, please visit our OA Week 2016 guide.

  • Digital Humanities for Tomorrow
    2-4 pm, Monday October 24, Doe Library 303
  • Copyright and Your Dissertation
    4-5 pm, Monday October 24, Sproul Hall 309
  • Publishing Your Dissertation
    2-3 pm, Tuesday October 25, Sproul Hall 309
  • Increase and Track Your Scholarly Impact
    2-3 pm, Thursday October 27, Sproul Hall 309
  • Current Topics in Data Publishing
    2-3 pm, Friday October 28, Doe Library 190

You can also talk to a Library expert from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. on Oct. 24-28 at:

  • North Gate Hall (Mon., Tue.)
  • Kroeber Hall (Wed.–Fri.)

Event attendance and table visits earn raffle tickets for a prize drawing on October 28!

Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Library, and organized by the Library’s Scholarly Communication Expertise Group. Contact Library Scholarly Communication Officer, Rachael Samberg (rsamberg@berkeley.edu), with questions.


News: SPSS software now available to all faculty, students, & staff

Excuse the cross-posting, but I wanted to spread the word that the Campus has purchased an enterprise site license for SPSS. It can be downloaded on your campus and personal computer.

To request a license key from Campus to download SPSS, go to https://software.berkeley.edu/spss and authenticate with your CalNet ID and passphrase.

If you are only using SPSS infrequently, you may want to access it instead through the UCB Citrix program. Instructions for that can be found in the Data Lab’s Using Research Tools via Citrix guide.


Resource guide for data services and resources at UC Berkeley

Our Data and Digital Scholarship Expertise Group is a cross-disciplinary professional learning community within The Library. This group provides guidance, informs policies, organizes instructional events and resources, serves as a locus for campus partnerships, and its members develop expertise to serve as resource within their division or unit. The expertise group has developed a guide to data services and resources within the Library and across campus.


Reminder: ProQuest demos, including text data mining overview

Tomorrow afternoon (11/13) a team from ProQuest will be on campus to tell us more about some of the products we are considering licensing and to answer questions.  A series of short sessions will be offered following the schedule below (note a few repeat sessions). They will also hold a drawing for two $50 Amazon Gift cards that they will give out at the end of the day.   

These sessions are open to all — librarians, faculty, graduate students, etc.  Anyone with an interest in learning more is welcome.
All sessions will be held in 305 Wurster Hall.  It’s a food-friendly room, and ProQuest is planning to bring in snacks, so come hungry and come curious!

Primary Sources: Europeana – now both a portal and a data center

Since its inception in 2008, Europeana has continued to grow, now providing access to more than 30 million items.

  • Europeana portal is the search engine for the digitized collections of museums, libraries, archives and galleries across Europe.
  • Virtual Exhibitions feature highlights from the collection.
  • Europeana 1914-1918 project brings together community-contributed content from the time of World War One.
  • Europeana 1989 project is collecting stories and memorabilia from the fall of the Iron Curtain, as well as recreating the Baltic Way online.

In addition to serving as a centralized access point to contents from different heritage institutions, Europeana is supporting research with Europeana Labs, which provides access to their metadata records, Europeana APIs, and examples of applications that have been created using these resources.