The UMass Amherst Libraries will celebrate International Open Access Week with two in-person workshops focusing on open access publishing, Oct. 21 and 22. Both events are free and open to the public. 

This year’s International Open Access Week theme continues last year’s call to put “Community Over Commercialization,” focusing on the approaches to open scholarship that prioritize the best interests of the public and the academic community.

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The first workshop, “Taking Advantage of the ACM Agreement to Publish Open Access” will be held on Monday, Oct. 21, from 4-5 p.m., in the Science and Engineering Library Learning Studio. This session will highlight how UMass Amherst authors can publish their Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) conference proceedings and journal and magazine articles with open access licenses at no cost to them under an agreement between ACM and the Libraries.

The second workshop, “Taking Advantage of Open Access Publisher Agreements in the Humanities and Social Sciences” will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 22, from 4-5 p.m., in Room 2601 of the W. E. B. Du Bois Library. This workshop will detail how UMass Amherst authors can publish their articles and books with open access licenses at no or very reduced cost to them under agreements the Libraries have with various publishers. 

As part of their commitment to open and to building a community of open scholarship for public knowledge, the Libraries provide funding to more than 15 publishers so UMass authors can publish open access without cost after going through editorial and peer manuscript review. These agreements represent partnerships with journal and monograph publishers, including Association for Computing Machinery, Cambridge University Press, Company of Biologists, MIT Press Direct to Open, Peer J, PLOS, Punctum Books, and University of Michigan Fund to Mission.

More information about the Libraries’ commitment to open can be found here.