International Open Access Week is 23-29 October. The year’s theme is ‘Community over Commercialisation’ which focuses on the benefit of community activities in combating the negative sides of commercialisation in scholarly communications, for example, publicly funded research and knowledge being behind paywalls or excessive fees being charged to publish open access.
In keeping with the theme, the Library is launching a new Community of Practice focusing on the development of a University Press – as part of a Strategic Major Project. The University Press Community of Practice (UP CoP) is open to staff and Post graduate students, we would especially like to hear from members of the University community already engaged in scholarly communication publishing activities under the banner of the University of Southampton.
To join or for more details of the CoP’s aims and priorities please visit the CoP Sharepoint or the Teams site and join using code kjecmnl. We look forward to working with you.
For help and support with Open Access queries please visit https://library.soton.ac.uk/openaccess or contact [email protected].