As part of Open Access Week, Oct. 23 through 29, the University Libraries is bringing together a panel of local and global scholars to offer their perspectives on the importance of community control of knowledge sharing systems, and the costs of entrenching publicly-funded research activities in profit-seeking business models. The panel will take place on Oct. 24 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Zoom. Registration is required.

Register for the panel discussion

“Authors' right to share and distribute their work is central to the university’s role as a public institution,” said Melissa Cantrell, scholarly communication librarian. “The Libraries and the university are dedicated to the advancement of science and the dissemination of scholarly research. Open access supports this along with the goal of equitable access to information across the world, but some business models create new barriers and operate according to values that conflict with public and academic communities. Community and academy-controlled infrastructure seeks to correct for that.”

The Center for Research Data & Digital Scholarship (CRDDS) have released their 2023 "State of Open" report, detailing and quantifying the state of open access at the University of Colorado Boulder. This yearly report covers the number of open-access journal articles published by CU Boulder researchers, Libraries funds allocated to author fees for publishing open-access articles, the total number of open-access articles in the university’s institutional repository, CU Scholar and more.

Read the 2023 State of Open report

The Libraries also support open-access publishing, open monographs and open articles. If you have questions about these initiatives, please contact Scholarly Communications Librarian, Melissa Cantrell.