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FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
Open Access Week 2013 Final Report
http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=library_faculty_publications
Florida State University Open Access Week 2013 Report
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“...inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and
research.” Open Access Week 2013 occurred in the last full week of October, the 21st through 27th.
This was the sixth year that Open Access Week was celebrated, and the fourth year it was observed
at Florida State University. This year’s theme for Open Access Week was “Redefining Impact.”
As open access is generally heralded by librarians, events and initiatives around that topic are hosted
by Florida State University Libraries. Following the lead of other universities that hosted Open
Access Week events, the 2010 and 2011 programs included lectures, panels and discussions. While
the programs were generally well-regarded and in line with current events and interesting topics, they
were largely attended by open access advocates and librarians. As the goals of FSU’s open access
program became clearer, the decision was made that lectures and panels hosted in the library were
not achieving the desired effect of raising campus-wide awareness about open access. The 2012
initiative for Open Access Week took the form of an information campaign, including eight posters,
informational brochures, and staff time spent at an information table in the main floor of the library.
While unable to measure effectiveness by numbers of attendees, it became apparent that the level of
knowledge about open access is increasing as outreach takes new flavors.
2. Open Access Week 2013
Brainstorming produced two campus-wide initiatives
Open Access Week planning began with the start of the fall semester. The Scholarly Communication
Librarian, Micah Vandegrift, organized a committee that included members representing
Undergraduate Commons, Scholars Commons, the Engineering Library, the College of Medicine
Library, and Goldstein Library, led by Scholarly Communication Assistant, Josh Bolick, with
assistance from Nina Rose, Intern for the Scholarly Communication Office. After initial discussions
outlining previous year’s events and low levels of participation, the committee held several
brainstorming sessions to explore ideas for reaching a broader audience. Two principal initiatives
emerged, one directed at faculty (the traditional audience for Open Access advocacy), and the other
directed at undergraduate students, who have often been neglected in discussions of open access.
DigiNole Commons Upload-A-Thon
The faculty-centered initiative of Open Access Week was a campus-wide institutional repository
“Upload-A-Thon,” with the goal of at least one faculty member from each department depositing at
least one article into DigiNole Commons. Beginning in October, liaison librarians began identifying
and e-mailing individual faculty members to ask for their participation in the Upload-A-Thon, which
was also publicized in Florida State 24/7, the FSU community news website.
Twelve departments within ten colleges participated in the initiative. Highlights and illustrative
charts are below.
As a result of the Upload-A-Thon and momentum achieved through other scholarly communication
activities this year, we have identified five new target departments for outreach:

Art History

Art Education

School of Library and Information Studies
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