The Libraries presented updated information about the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy on July 2, 2025. It included an explanation of the new requirements for NIH grant awardees and how they can show compliance for new publications arising from their grant funding. The recording is available to view here and the slides are available to review. There is also information available on the Libraries’ Resource Guide.
Librarians are available to help with any questions about complying with the new NIH policy when you’re ready to publish your findings. Also, we have agreements with a number of publishers to waive any fees if you want to publish an open access article. Our Open Access and Fee Waiver Agreements page has more information about these opportunities.
LSU Health Digital Scholar has a new look! Our repository has grown significantly since it was established in 2023, and a redesign of the home page was undertaken to better reflect and navigate our many collections.
Digital Scholar is LSUHSC-NO’s Institutional Repository, a platform where scholarly output and events created and hosted by our academic community are shared. Here you will find Faculty Publications, Research Events, Dissertations & Theses, two journals: the Journal of the Louisiana Public Health Association and the Louisiana Journal of Counseling, Data sets, a collection of Campus Art & Images, and Historical Collections such as academic bulletins, graduation programs and student newspapers dating back to the first days of the originally named “Louisiana State University Medical Center”.
Digital Scholar is growing in content daily and we actively seek out items to include on this open-access platform! Possible submissions include:
Faculty bibliographies
LSUHSC-affiliated authors’ articles or research suitable for open-access publication
Post-embargo Dissertations & Theses
Research Days, Events, or Symposia – past and present
School- or Department-specific professional development seminars
Data sets suitable for open-access publication or storage
Benefits to having your work or event archived in LSU Health Digital Scholar include: reader analytics and tracking, a consistent URL for inclusion in CVs and communications, access to a broader network of research, proceedings, and data sets, and contributing to the impressive body of LSUHSC scholarly output! If you are interested in submitting a scholarly work or event to the repository or have any questions, please reach out to DigitalScholar@lsuhsc.edu.
You can navigate to LSU Health Digital Scholar from the Libraries homepage, or visit it directly via digitalscholar.lsuhsc.edu. Digital Scholar is a member of the Digital Commons Network representing over 500 institutions in the Medicine and Health Sciences disciplines and over 700 academic institutions across all disciplines.
Join us for four weeks of activities and awareness starting October 21, 2024. Each week, the Library will be focusing on a new topic related to Open Access. Make sure you stop by to learn more, or check out the full schedule of events, available here: https://libguides.lsuhsc.edu/scholpub/openaccessmonth2024
Tags: open access | Library Events, Library News | Permalink | Comments Off on Open Access Month 2024 at LSU Health Sciences Center – New Orleans! | Posted Monday, October 21, 2024 by Rowan Marye
Open access to information—the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research and the right to use and re-use those results—has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole. October 20-26 has been declared International Open Access Week, an opportunity for education and advocacy regarding the open sharing of information. Visit the Open Access Week website for more information about events being held around the world.
In honor of Open Access Week, LSUHSC-NO will be offering a Library Lunchtime Learning workshop on the topic tomorrow, October 21, at noon in the Computer Laboratory on the 4th floor of the Isché Library. We hope to see you there!
In honor of International Open Access Week, October’s Library Lunchtime Learning will focus on this hot topic in scholarly communication by introducing attendees to the concept and looking at the latest news in OA mandates. The workshop will also discuss predatory publishers (some of who disguise themselves in the cloak of open access) and how to identify article and conference solicitations that may not be on the up and up.
We hope to see you at 12 p.m. on either Thursday, October 9, in the Wirth Room (2203) on the Dental Campus or Tuesday, October 21, in the Ische Library’s Computer Lab for this important and timely topic. Please RSVP at dentlib@lsuhsc.edu if you can, but remember that drop-ins are always welcome.
Just as the second email ever sent was probably spam, the advent of open access publishing has brought individuals and businesses attempting to exploit scientists and researchers unfamiliar with their tactics. Becoming informed about these predatory publishers and how they operate is vital to avoiding their snare.
Predatory publishers and journals take advantage of the author-pay model of legitimate open access by charging large fees without providing any editorial or services and engaging in other nefarious behaviors, such as:
One strong source of information about predatory publishers is the Scholarly Open Access blog, written by Jeffrey Beall, Scholarly Initiatives Librarian at the Auraria Library, University of Colorado Denver. Beall’s lists of questionable publishers and standalone journals should be a first stop for information if you receive a suspicious solicitation from an unfamiliar journal.
An interesting article in the Times Picayune today discussed how the US government is requesting two major scientific publishers (Science and Nature) restrict details about the development of lab-bred bird flu in upcoming publications. The NIH funded research was conducted in the Netherlands and at the University of Wisconsin, in order to study the epidemiology of H5N1 avian influenza.
“…In a statement, Science editor-in-chief Dr. Bruce Alberts said his journal “has concerns about withholding potentially important public health information from responsible influenza researchers” and was evaluating how best to proceed.
Nature’s editor-in-chief, Dr. Philip Campbell, called the recommendations unprecedented.
“It is essential for public health that the full details of any scientific analysis of flu viruses be available to researchers,” he said in a statement. The journal is discussing how “appropriate access to the scientific methods and data could be enabled.”
After review by the US government’s biosecurity advisers, the Department of Health and Human Services requested the two journals not publish the full genetic information of lab bred bird flu, fearing it could fall into the wrong hands.
You would think that due to the First Amendment of the US Constitution, governmental agencies can only request the journals restrict details, and not openly censor the published work. However, according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (which publishes Science), there are several methods to restrict publication and dissemination of research: classification, export controls, and pre-publication review. “Pre-publication review is sometimes used as a condition for accepting research grants or contracts. These restrictions are usually narrowly-targeted, and do not apply to whole fields of research.”
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