Open Access Week Showcases Research [Tufts University]

Associate Provost Mary Lee is hosting Tufts’ fourth annual Open Access Week from Oct. 22 through Oct. 28. Part of an international program to expand education and research audiences, the initiative at Tufts is an opportunity for professors to showcase the work they will publish in open access journals, or publications that anyone can access for free.

“Scholarship that is both high-quality and openly available is more likely to be used and cited, thus raising the prominence of the faculty and of the affiliated institution, as well as increasing the opportunity for interdisciplinary work and reuse,” Lee told the Daily in an email. “Open access is a movement of concern for all of us involved in advancing scholarship and research — no discipline is excluded.”

Throughout the week, professors’ and some of their Ph.D students’ articles will be on display in Tisch Library on the Medford/Somerville campus and Hirsh Health Sciences Library on the Boston campus. Yesterday, these libraries live-streamed an International Open Access Week lecture from Harvard University entitled “How to Make Your Research Open Access.”