Open Access @OSU Libraries: Open Access Week

Open Research Oklahoma (ORO) is a digital repository that serves as a central hub for the intellectual output of Oklahoma State University. Learn how ORO can benefit you by providing increased visibility for your research, fostering collaboration, and preserving your work for future generations. Discover how to submit your research to ORO, explore the various types of content available, and understand the impact ORO has on both the university and the wider academic community. 

In this presentation, we will explore the potentially transformative impact of the Nelson memo, issued by the White House Office of Science and Technology policy and set to go into effect by the end of 2025, which mandates immediate public access to federally funded research. We will also look at National Security Presidential Memorandum 33, highlighting the critical role of persistent identifiers (PIDs) in ensuring research integrity and traceability. Finally, we’ll discuss the National Information Standards Organization’s efforts to develop a comprehensive US National PID Strategy, aiming to standardize the digital infrastructure linking scholarship to authors and institutions in order to support research discovery and ensure compliance with funder requirements. 

This open-access anthology features short texts that can be read in a single class period and are designed to spark deep conversations. Organized around themes of being, love, land, world, and futures, these poems, essays, and flash fiction offer inclusive and affirming perspectives to align with junior high and high school English language arts (ELA) curriculum. With contributions from acclaimed young adult authors, flash fiction writers, and teacher-poets, Just YA provides educators with contemporary texts that resonate with and inspire today’s students to write their own stories.

Join Dr. Sarah Donovan, Associate Professor of Secondary English Education, and various authors from the Just YA anthology for an informal reading! 

Discover the essentials of Open Access (OA) publishing in this informative session. We’ll demystify what OA really means (Gold OA?, Green OA???), explain why it can boost the visibility and impact of your work, and guide you in finding reputable OA journals. Plus, learn how our library’s Read and Publish agreements with certain publishers including Cambridge and Oxford can help you publish OA at no extra cost. Whether you're a seasoned researcher or just beginning to explore OA, this session will provide valuable insights and tools for maximizing your scholarly reach. 

We all value the work art and museum curators perform to preserve valuable information, items, and works so that they exist far into the future. Research data should be treated with much of the same care and meticulousness so that it can be properly archived and available to other researchers as well as the general public many years from now. As more funding agencies and journals require or encourage data sharing as a condition of funding or publication, researchers find themselves navigating metadata schemas, data documentation, and data repository selection which may all be completely new to them.

This workshop will suggest some small research workflow alterations to improve the quality of your data and streamline the process from data collection to archiving. It will also cover common metadata schemas and resources, data documentation templates, and an overview of data repositories and how to go about selecting one that is appropriate for your research. 

Open access data and data sets published by U.S. government agencies are available to researchers in Data.gov and Science.gov, as well as the data catalogs that many agencies maintain. Data can be cleaned and standardized using OpenRefine and other software packages. Learn the key access points to federal data and how to improve data usability with OpenRefine. 

The HathiTrust Digital Library brings together the collections of more than 60 academic and research libraries from across North America and other countries. The 18+ million digitized items are open to researchers globally with additional features available to affiliates of OSU and other members. Join us to learn how to discover and access full-text documents, research government information, and create datasets for text and data mining.