Speaker: Sarah Potvin, Digital Scholarship Librarian, TAMU Libraries' Office of Scholarly Communication

This webinar, held in conjunction with Open Access Week, is aimed at Texas A&M faculty members who are interested in broadening the reach of their publications. The session will take authors through the steps of publishing openly accessible versions of their scholarship— whether articles, data, or grey literature— in OAK Trust, Texas A&M’s Open Access Institutional Repository. The session will describe the advantages of open access publication, provide guidance on interpreting author agreements, and provide an overview of the process of submitting to the Faculty Publications collection in OAK Trust. 

This is an online class, in a webinar format.  You will need speakers or headphones to hear the presentation.  You will be communicating with the instructor via chat, so no microphone is required.

At the day and time of the class, go to: http://msl.adobeconnect.com/open-access-publishing/

By the end of the class, participants will be able to:

• Articulate some of the advantages associated with open publishing
• Interpret author agreements to understand how to legally post versions of previously-published articles
• Navigate to OAK Trust to deposit articles, data, or grey literature

Resources for session:

SHERPA/RoMEO Publisher Copyright Policies & Self-Archiving

Peter Suber’s Open Access (MIT Press, 2012)

MIT Libraries Open Access FAQ

TAMU Libraries OAK Trust Repository

Recording of TAMU Libraries' webinar, "Unlocking the Keys to Open Access Publishing" (Jan. 2015)