CRAI Library of the UB takes part in the International Open Access Week
The International Open Access Week is taking place from October 23 to 29. Like every year, the CRAI Library of the University of Barcelona takes part in several activities.
The International Open Access Week is taking place from October 23 to 29. Like every year, the CRAI Library of the University of Barcelona takes part in several activities.
The University of Barcelona is promoting more and more reading and the downloading of educational and academic material published online. During 2010-2016, the UB went from a 8,53 % to a 18 % of open access published articles (out of all the recorded ones). Since 2010, more than 15,000 articles have been published in the institutional archive, and more than 9,000 papers by authors from the UB in open access journals. To promote publications in this modality, more than four hundred grants of an investment of more than 380,000 euros were awarded. Moreover, the UB has more than 6,000 theses in the institutional archive.
In these lines, and on the occasion of the International Open Access Week, the CRAI Library of the UB offers a series of resources to promote the initiatives related to open access and all the information about this topic, apart from a help guideline for the open access publications.
Micro-MOOC
The main activity of this week is the participation of the CRAI Library of the UB in the micro-MOOC on open access created by the Catalan universities together with Jaume I University (Castelló) and led by the UOC. The micro-MOOC has five daily sessions to be communicated in the Twitter account @moocmicro, with the hashtag #OAMOOC. All the participating universities have worked on its content, mainly aimed at researchers. Each day of this week, at 12 noon, there will be around twenty tweets and there will be a place for debate, doubts, questions and suggestions.
Activities in the different CRAI libraries
Among the different proposals carried out by the libraries of the UB for this week, the Fine Arts CRAI Library will provide information about the portals with open access art images through social networks. Also, using social networks, the Clínic Campus CRAI Library will inform about the content on open access, such as an open guideline on research.
Moreover, the Economics and Business CRAI Library has created a computer graphic on the work papers of the Faculty published in the Digital Archive of the UB.
The contents of the Digital Archive are important also in the proposal of the Pharmacy and Food Science CRAI Library, which has collected data on the number of research materials the Faculty has stored in this archive, and it shows them from a global perspective as well as categorized under departments.
The Philology CRAI Library prepared a daily program of information about the open access in the field of humanities and the subjects taught at the Faculty of Philology. This content will be published on social networks and in their Bloc de Lletres. Among other materials will be the EHEA bachelor's degree final projects or open access journals of the Faculty.
Last, the Mathematics CRAI Library prepared a graphic showing the publishing process in the Digital Archive of an article from the online resumé researchers have in GREC, the data system on research activities carried out by the UB.