Open Scholarship Café: Open Access Publishing

This Open Scholarship Café, co-presented by the James Hardiman Library at NUI Galway and the Open Scholarship Community Galway  looked at the fast moving area of Open Publishing.

The transition to Open Access Publishing is moving quickly not least driven by initiatives like Plan S or funder mandates like the SFI Open Access Policy.

Agenda for the session was

1. What is Open Access Publishing?

2. Routes to Open Access Publishing

3. How can authors benefit from Open Access agreements with publishers?

4. Rights Retention Strategy. What is that?

5. Discussion and Q&A.

Important resources mentioned in the talk:

• Slides can be viewed here.
• List of all journals covered by IReL Open Access agreements: http://bit.ly/irelOAjournals
  
• NUI Galway Library support on Open Access Publishing: http://library.nuigalway.ie/openscholarship/openpublishing/deals/
• IReL information on Open Access agreements: https://irel.ie/open-access/

The presenter:

Hardy Schwamm is the Open Scholarship Librarian at NUI Galway and an active member of the Open Scholarship Community Galway.