A global event now entering its eighth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they've learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.
We created this GIF as a good (shareable) way to highlight the dedication of the university (via the library) for supporting authors in the open access publication of their research and also spread some positive OA messages at the same time. The very central london backdrop of somerset house gave it a nice touch. Paul Weller was in the area watching with bemusement as we created this masterpiece.
Drop in sessions
We hosted several drop in sessions over the week across the university. We were available answer any questions authors' had and were able to provide information about the many services available to them through the library. Points of interest included:
- Depositing your outputs in Pure
- Funder policies (RCUK, Wellcome Trust, and many more)
- Freebies, competitions and more!
We came up with this neat poster based on OA week branding and shared this widely across all our communication outlets; the library services homepage, emails to heads of schools and A1 posters around the college.
Competitions
We cheesily offered a cuddly BioMed Turtles to reward deposits into Pure over the week as a fun icebreaker and chance to repeat this as a fundamental message promoted by our service. We also got involved with the knowledge unlatched competition as well as sending our GIF and pictures across the twittersphere!
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