August 13 | 2:00 p.m. EDT | Online
Beyond STEM: Mapping the New Open Access Landscape
Early researchers in physics, medicine, and the sciences saw the potential of the internet before almost anyone else, removing barriers and accelerating discovery with STEM-driven open access (OA) content. How did the OA movement shift from a grassroots initiative to the blueprint for global academic publishing—and how does it continue to evolve today?
Join us for the August installment of our OA Master Class for Academic and Special Libraries, where we’ll discuss how scientific pioneers democratized scholarly communication and dig into data on the top 25 most frequently occurring subject areas in open access publishing.
Together, we will:
- Trace the historical shift in OA subject coverage from a STEM-dominated landscape to genuine multidisciplinary representation, using publishing trend data since 2017
- Examine what the data in CloudSource OA's index reveals about which fields are rising, falling, and holding steady and what that means for research support across disciplines
- Explore the implications of this shift for collection development strategy and how librarians can evaluate OA coverage as part of a broader scholarly communication strategy
- Learn how CloudSource OA can help you support that full disciplinary range — providing access to 95M+ open resources across every field, with no barriers or logins
See how genuine multidisciplinary equilibrium across the OA landscape has direct implications for collection development, budgeting, and how institutions evaluate OA's role across every department and research field they support. Register today.
August
13
Date: Thursday, August 13
Time: 2:00 p.m. EDT
Place: Online
About the Series
The Open Access Master Class Series for Academic and Special Libraries will help you get acquainted with OA and the ways it can benefit your students, researchers, faculty, and alumni. Whether you’re familiar with OA or just starting your journey, this series will ensure you have all the information you need to develop your collection and provide high-quality, freely accessible content to all.
Presenters
Maryśka Connolly
MLIS, CloudSource Director of Partnerships & Communications, SirsiDynix