This week (October 20-26) is Open Access Week, an annual global event promoting open access as the new norm in scholarship and research.
According to openaccessweek.org, “ ‘Open Access’ to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole.”
The visibility of UNK research can be raised to a global scale when digital scholarship is made freely available online at no cost to readers. Sharing UNK research and scholarship on the open web will broaden its impact and create a global readership. Providing access to everyone, not just institutions that can afford to purchase journal subscriptions, helps to inspire creativity, enable innovation and to accelerate the development of important new discoveries.
Open Access Resources:
In Brief Online 