For 2022, our Open Access Week programming explores the importance of openly sharing knowledge to address the inequities that shape the impacts of climate change and our response to them.

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CU Boulder authors can publish open access in PLOS journals without charge

Sept. 8, 2022

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

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CU Boulder adds new discovery tool for open access research

Oct. 26, 2021

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.

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University Libraries commits funds to support publishing open access monographs

April 7, 2021

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.

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'Unlocking COVID-19 through Open Access' with Jason Shuo Zhang

Dec. 11, 2020

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...

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'Unlocking COVID-19 through Open Access' with Shelly Miller

Oct. 27, 2020

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.

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United Nations Global Climate Summit

December 1 – 4, 2022

This year's Open Access Week theme, "Open for Climate Justice," aligns with the University Libraries’ involvement with the UN Global Climate Summit, hosted by CU Boulder in December 2022.

Virtual registration and volunteer signups are available. Due to limited capacity, in-person attendance opportunities will be shared by invitation this fall.

Learn more about the Climate Summit

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