Check out our Open Access Guide! It’s chock full of information on what OA is; what it is not; how to retain your copyright; and much more.
https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/openaccess
Have questions navigating the OA landscape? Contact Kate.
Resources and Services
Questions about Data Management Plans? Just Ask!
Working on a grant and putting together a data management plan?
Check out our Guide for some tips and tricks: https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/datamanagement
Contact Kate if you’d like a one-on-one consultation.
Reinvent medical textbook publishing. Reach a worldwide audience. Get paid.
Are you interested in writing for a new open access point of care resource, Open Library of Medicine?
University of California Press, PLOS, and a growing collective of partners are working on the idea for a peer reviewed open access service that allows people to write and use point-of-care summaries at a cost that is multiple times less than current commercial products.
Interested in becoming a paid author/contributor? Complete this brief (3-5 minute) survey.
Why are they doing this?
- Physicians at medical schools and teaching hospitals author a large share of the content in point of care tools.
- Trainees and physicians at those institutions are also key users of these, and their institutions are key buyers.
- If the collective faculty and staff across these institutions write and consume much of the content, why does it cost the same institutions ever-increasing premiums to re-acquire their collective knowledge?
- The Open Library of Medicine publishing initiative envisions an open access service that allows people to write and use point-of-care summaries at a cost that is multiple times less than current commercial products.
- Open Library of Medicine will be kick-started with foundation grants.
- When it has enough content to have parity with the current fee-based point of care tools, sponsor institutions will join the initiative and share the cost of supporting the lower cost and non-restricted access of Open Library of Medicine.
- Editors and authors will be paid honoraria. They can keep or pay this forward to their institutions to offset costs for the initiative.
Learn more about the Open Library of Medicine publishing initiative
Reinventing academic publishing, one article at a time: thanks to Deborah Finfgeld-Connett
Congratulations to Deborah Finfgeld-Connett, who recently published an article via open access, joining the growing ranks of MU authors who are reinventing academic publishing, one article at a time.
Making their articles available via open access is the best defense the academic community has against out of control journal price increases, and we salute Deborah and other MU authors for leading the way.
By paying a fee up front, they made their article available instantly to everybody on the web – no paywalls or subscriptions required. In most cases, they also retain ownership of their work, and don’t have to sign over their rights to the publisher.
Learn more about the Open Access movement .
Need help identifying reputable, high impact outlets for publishing open access? We can help. Contact us.
A message from our director about the library fee vote
Student Leaders informed the Acting Director of Libraries last evening that the library student fee referendum placed on the student election ballot failed. In order to pass, the referendum required 60% of voters to vote yes. We were informed last evening that only 54% of the votes were yes votes, and that percentage was adjusted slightly downward by them this morning.
We want to thank the students who supported the libraries, those who participated in the discussions, and to all of those who took the time to vote. Given the outcome of the vote, we will continue to serve the needs of our users in the most effective way possible, with available resources. We continue to value input from our users, and we look forward to working with you as we move forward.
Deb Ward, Director, Health Sciences Libraries
MU researchers publishing via open access: We salute you!
You hear a lot of chatter about escalating journal subscription prices, which typically inflate about 6-7% year after year, in good economic times or bad.
But some of our faculty are helping to change the publishing paradigm by making their work available via open access. By paying a fee up front, they made their article available instantly to everybody on the web – no paywalls or subscriptions required. In most cases, they also retain ownership of their work, and don’t have to sign over their rights to the publisher.
Open access is the best defense the academic community has against out of control journal price increases, and we salute these authors and others like them for leading the way!
Have you recently published an open access article? Add your name to this list.
Learn more about open access publishing
Scan to Email Now Available on ELTC Copier
In addition to scanning to USB, you can now scan directly to your email from the copier in the Engineering Library! Both of these functions are free.
As always, you can also make regular copies for 5 cents a page using your student ID, or 10 cents a page using cash.
Submit your work to the MOspace campus repository!
Go to https://library.missouri.edu/secure/mospace/ to upload your article, poster, or other scholarly work, and you’ll:
- increase its visibility (MOspace items come up on Google searches)
- find out how many times it was viewed, and from which countries
- retain your copyright (MOspace operates under a Creative Commons license that allows others to use your work as long as they give you credit, and don’t sell it or change it).
- help reinvent scholarly publishing by supporting open access
- provide a permanent home for your work and ensure that it is preserved for the future.
MOspace is a website of scholarly works created by faculty, students, and staff at the University of Missouri–Columbia and the University of Missouri–Kansas City. Its contents can be viewed by anyone on the web worldwide.
UpToDate, DynaMed, and more medical apps
Visit our Mobile Medical Resources page for medical apps and mobile websites for your tablet and phone.
Free Coffee, Nov 1-3
Stop by Bookmark Cafe in Ellis Library from 10 to 11 pm on Nov 1, 2 or 3 to get a free cup of drip coffee!