Welcome to International Open Access Week 2021 and Open Access Month at Harvard Library · Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication

"Harvard Library is investing in open-access infrastructure and services that support equitable, sustainable models for scholarly communication and open knowledge. This year, the library will hold Open Access Month from October 25 through November 19... For nearly four centuries, our library’s mission has been to advance the learning, research, and pursuit of truth that are at the heart of Harvard. In years gone by, when collections were purely physical, there was a sense of wrapping our arms around amazing resources that we had amassed for scholars within our gates. Today, we see things a little differently. We’ve opened our arms to engage with researchers around the world, as well as our scholars on campus, as a major node in a global knowledge network.... It is less than a quarter of a century since the open access movement began, but its steady progress promises systemic change in our oldest institutions. Here at Harvard Library, we’ve been focused on three areas to support the cultural change required to ensure that research results of all kinds are shared as equitably, as rapidly, and with as few barriers as possible: influencing policy, delivering services, and developing infrastructure.   One of our current key priorities is modernizing our repository infrastructure, as participants in a global repository network that is critical for open scholarship....  For example, the Harvard Data Commons project is a collaboration between the Harvard Library, Harvard University IT, Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Research Computing, the Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School, and the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences to better integrate systems that support the lifecycle of research data. This project includes automating the process of archiving data from the Harvard Dataverse in the Library's digital preservation repository (the DRS).... An important component of this work will focus on employing emerging open standards to establish automated and durable links between publications in our open access repository (DASH) and related research data stored in Harvard Dataverse. This work is part of Harvard's contribution to an international collaboration called the Notify Project, led by the Confederation of Open Access Repositories, which aims to facilitate links between repository resources and external services such as peer review. ..."