23-29 October – Community over Commercialization
This year’s theme encourages a candid conversation about which approaches to open scholarship that prioritise the best interests of the public and the academic community – and which do not.
On this theme, KIB is meeting with committed individuals with slightly different perspectives on the changing publishing landscape.
Did you know that you can publish with immediate open access in more than 12,000 journals without having to pay an open access publication fee?
We met with Patrik Magnusson, chair of the Open Science Working Group (OSWG), for the first time in 2022. Again in 2023 and now, during the Open Access week 2024: Open science at KI, where are we now? A new interview with Patrik Magnusson.
Open Research Data is an area of Open Science that is gaining momentum. One example of an open dataset from KI that has already proved useful to researchers around the world is the CSAW-CC mammography dataset which was made openly available by Fredrik Strand’s research team after approval from the KI data protection office.
KIB offers several workshops on open access and research data. The workshops are open to all researchers and doctoral students and at KI.
Read more and register in the calender!
Open Access Week is an invaluable chance to connect the global momentum toward the open sharing of knowledge with the advancement of policy changes and the importance of social issues affecting people around the world. The event is celebrated by individuals, institutions and organizations around the world.
In 2022 we had the opportunity to meet Tobias Alfvén, senior researcher and associate professor in Global Health at KI and a paediatrician at Sachs’ Children and Youth Hospital in Stockholm. In this video he shares his thoughts on openness and its role in research.
Publishing research data is becoming an important component of Open Science. The Data Access Unit (DAO) is a group of librarians providing support to researchers publishing their data. DAO sat down to talk with Malin to about her recently published article.
Here you will find information about how to publish open access in accordance with KI's policy, what agreements and discounts with prepaid publishing fees there are, and descriptions of different licences.