Open Access & Open Education News

International Open Access Week is October 24 - 28. The theme this year is “Open for Climate Justice.”

It’s part of a larger commitment from the National Science Foundation to strengthen coordination among researchers to advance fair data principles and open science practices.

The University Libraries’ three-year agreement with PLOS will help more CU Boulder authors publish their research articles open access.

Faculty and GPTIs interested in open educational resources are encouraged to apply by August 1, 2022.

The tool is an initiative from the Office of Faculty Affairs, the Office of Data Analytics and the University Libraries to connect new audiences with faculty works.

CU Boulder faculty and participating university presses can apply to receive funding from the libraries to fund an open access monograph publication through the Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) initiative.

The Office of Academic Affairs and the Open CU Steering Team are accepting nominations for the annual Open Educational Resources (OER) Champion Award.

Unlocking COVID-19 through Open Access is a video series produced by the University Libraries and the Center for Research Data & Digital Scholarship that highlights CU Boulder faculty and researchers using the open access publishing model to make their work on COVID-19 more accessible to the public. Learn how CU...

Learn how Shelly Miller, a professor of Mechanical Engineering at CU Boulder and faculty in the Environmental Engineering Program, is using the libraries' institutional repository CU Scholar to make her research on the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 through instruments available to the public during the pandemic.

This is a special audio documentary affiliated with Opentober , a month-long celebration of open access at the University Libraries—and a reminder that we as citizens have the right to an open and responsive system of government for the welfare and wellbeing of the communities they represent. The University Libraries...