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Philip Cohen, Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland, provided an introduction to OSF: "Transparency in Research: Leveraging the Open Science Framework".

Click here to view this event which was hosted by UMD Libraries and introduced by Dean Adriene Lim.

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Other opportunities to learn more about making the most of the OSF platform will be offered… Continue

The University of Maryland has joined TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), a national initiative to advance open-access publishing of monographs in the humanities and social sciences. TOME aims to make important long-form scholarship available to readers across the globe, without cost and permission barriers, by creating a system in which academic institutions subsidize the publication of open access books.

For its initial two-year pilot program, TOME@UMD will sponsor the publication of open access, digital monographs by UMD… Continue

The University of Maryland Libraries and the Division of Research are pleased to announce that UMD is now an institutional partner of the Open Science Framework (OSF), an online research management and collaboration platform from the Center for Open Science. The OSF system makes it easier for UMD researchers to manage projects throughout their life cycles and to collaborate with others across institutions, with an overarching goal of making more research outputs and data transparent, discoverable, and reusable. UMD researchers can log into the new OSF… Continue

Peter Suber, Director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, Director of the Harvard Open Access Project, and a Senior Researcher at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society attended this virtual meeting. He also attended on August 20, 2020.

PACT members have continued to disseminate information to UMD faculty on the proposed policy; they invited Peter to their… Continue

You're invited to join UMD PACT for an open forum on Tuesday, April 20 at 2pm online via Zoom.

Equitable Access to Scholarly Articles Authored by UMD Faculty: A Proposed Campus Approach from the UMD PACT Working Group

Researchers and scholars at the University of Maryland are on the front lines, creating knowledge and developing innovative solutions to enhance the lives, well-being, and health of the planet and people across the world. Yet, what happens when access to this knowledge is impeded by price and permission barriers?

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David Durden [Data Services Librarian] gave an overview of the Qualitative Data Repository [QDR]: the “first repository in the United States dedicated to storing and publishing digital data generated through qualitative… Continue

UMD PACT members reviewed the first draft policy language that mirrors the recommended Harvard policy model. The final draft will be reviewed by the Office of General Counsel after which it will be taken to a series of discipline-specific meetings hosted by PACT across campus. 

Dan Mack [Associate Dean of Collections] updated the group on current trends in scholarly publishing including the effects of Nature’s “gold option” and leveraging the power… Continue

UMD PACT members welcomed Eric Olson from the Center for Open Science, a not-for-profit organization based in Virginia. Their aim is to support open science by providing access, to and… Continue

Back when she was a student in Bulgaria, Nedelina Tchangalova was attempting to finish up her degree when she hit a roadblock: she couldn’t access many of the publications she needed to write her thesis.

That frustrating experience put her on the path towards advocating for open science, a path she continues to walk today as the University of Maryland’s Public Health Librarian.

“Libraries value intellectual freedom as part of their mission to provide and protect access to information and ideas,” Tchangalova said. “Scientific knowledge and discoveries should be widely… Continue

The group reviewed a draft change proposal for its policy initiative: “Achieving Equitable, Sustainable Access to the University of Maryland’s Scholarship and Research”. It is now under review by the Office of General Counsel and will be used to guide discussions with stakeholders to build support. 

The group discussed whether the document was directed purely at faculty, rather… Continue