Oct 19 to 24 is Open Access Week. Open Access is a movement within the global research community to make published work freely available, immediately after publication. The Budapest Open Access Initiative, introduced in 2002, articulated the philosophy behind it. Open access quickly took root in the scientific and medical communities because it offered an alternative route to research literature that was frequently closed off behind costly subscription barriers.

You may also take part in the initiative by depositing your published work with DR-NTU. DR-NTU comprises two Digital Repositories: DR-NTU (Open Access) and DR-NTU (Restricted Access). DR-NTU (Open access) focuses primarily on collecting conference papers and journal articles by NTU faculty & researchers for which publishers permit self archiving in open access repositories. DR-NTU (Restricted access) comprise student submissions such as theses, work attachment reports and final year project reports that require user authentication to access the full text.

APS (American Physical Society) and Harvard University has reached an agreement on the Harvard’s “open access” policy, which was adopted in 2008. The “open access” policy has allowed the university to make all articles published by its faculty freely available. So what did APS agree with Harvard? Read more about the agreement between APS and Harvard.

MIT’s faculty have approved a resolution that allows MIT to distribute their research papers via the institution’s online repository.

The open access resolution hopes to address two problems with publishing in scientific journals:
1. faculty members are forced to give up rights to their own articles
2. publishers charge exorbitant subscription fees to MIT for access to these articles.

Source : The Tech – Online edition

DR-NTU (Open access) is our institutional repository that collects conference papers and journal articles by NTU faculty & researchers for which publishers permit self archiving in open access repositories.

The advantages of an institutional repository include:

1. IT IS A PERMANENT ARCHIVE
   Preserves intellectual output of the university; provides easy storage & retrieval.
2. IT SHOWCASES UNIVERSITY RESEARCH OUTPUT
   Raises visibility/prestige of university staff and increases impact of faculty research.
3. IT SUPPORTS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION EFFORT
   Provides easy & free access to scholarly output funded by public & the university and increases circulation of research materials.

You can find out more information about DR_NTU (including FAQ & Procedures). If you are keen to submit your publications, you may want to contact the respective science librarians.

Digital Repository – NTU (restricted access) comprises student submissions such as final year project reports, theses and work attachment reports that require user authentication to access the full text.  NTU staff and students need to login with their NTU network account.  For submissions to this repository, please note that Library is collecting only full text documents. Students whose work are confidential or are awaiting publication are not required to submit to the DR-NTU.

Students submitting their final year project reports or theses are advised to refer to the submission procedures  for more instructions.

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NTU Library and Emerald Publishing 

Presents
“The Insiders’ Guide to Getting Published in International Research Journals”
Date : 12 February 2009
Venue : LT28, Nanyang Technological University

The session will contain insider’s information on:

·          How to get published in the right journal

·          How to target your work more effectively

·          What editors and reviewers actually look for

·          The key questions that make or break a paper

·          How to peer review your own work

·          The secrets of revision

The event is free.
Click here to register.