UNL Libraries support Open Access
Open Access Vouchers
Since 2013 UNL Libraries have enabled the open access
publication of 15 articles by three UNL professors through the Royal Society of
Chemistry’s (RSC) Gold for Gold program which provides vouchers on an annual
basis which can be used for open access article fees. The number of vouchers
available is based on UNL’s subscription to RSC journals. Vouchers are freely
available on a first come first serve basis to all individuals affiliated with
UNL who are publishing in a Royal Society of Chemistry journal. To request a
voucher please email Kiyomi Deards at kdeards2@unl.edu
no later December 22nd.
Digital Commons
UNL’s
institutional repository has been offering open access to the research done by
UNL’s faculty and staff since 2005.
Content from the Digital Commons is searchable by Google and averages
more than six (6) million downloads per year from readers around the
world. The Digital Commons contains more than 60,000 articles, papers,
e-books, documents, presentations, creative activities, master's theses, and open-access dissertations. It also contains Peer-Reviewed Journals and Series and UNL Dissertations from ProQuest-UMI featuring
more than 13,000 Ph.D. dissertations from the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln.
Content from the Digital Commons is searchable by Google and
averages more than six (6) million downloads per year from readers around the
world. Bibliometric studies indicate a
25% to 400% citation advantage for articles published under open access
licenses. See B. Wagner, "Open Access Citation Advantage: An Annotated
Bibliography," Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship 60
(2010); http://www.istl.org/10-winter/article2.html
For assistance in
depositing documents or for more information regarding the Digital Commons,
contact Paul Royster, 306 Love Library, tel. 402 472-3628, email proyster@unl.edu, or Sue Ann Gardner, 302 Love Library, tel.
402 472-8566, email sgardner2@unl.edu.
Really happy to see UNL take an interest in the Open Access movement again.
ReplyDeleteJai-- Thank you for your interest in open scholarship at UNL! We have been longtime supporters of that movement to the extent that it serves our constituents, who are the students and faculty of UNL. Recently, however, it has seemed to us that the “official” OA movement has been co-opted by corporate publishers more concerned with selling for-pay (“Gold”) open access than in disseminating research and scholarship. Outside of this corporatized Open Access movement, per se, we remain passionate about providing quality services to our readers, and are happy that you are interested in this issue.
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