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#OAWeek: Opening LIS Work with the LIS Scholarship Archive

Last Updated on October 26, 2017, 3:00 pm ET

*This is a guest blog post by Vicky Steeves, the Librarian for Research Data Management and Reproducibility at New York University. She serves on the LIS Scholarship Archive Advisory Board.*

Folks in all walks of LIS are celebrating #OAWeek with beautiful posters, polls, social media campaigns, events, and cookies (like these awesomely decorated cookies from the Ryerson Library in Toronto). Most of all, during this week there is a special emphasis  on assisting patrons in opening up their scholarship. However – what about our work, as folks in LIS? What can we do to ‘walk the walk’ of open access?

You can submit your work to the Library and Information Science  Scholarship Archive (LISSA)! LISSA, in partnership with the Center for Open Science, is a free, open source, open access, and community-led archive for scholarship in library and information science and allied fields. On LISSA, LIS workers, students, trainees, and others in the field can make their incredible work open and discoverable, from metadata records to oral histories to manuscripts to data, and more!

Currently on LISSA, there are preprints, postprints, grant narratives, posters, book manuscripts, student work/assignments, data, and code, in a variety of languages, from a diverse authorship! Let’s keep this going! If you are someone who works in LIS and who supports open scholarship, this is what you can do:

  • Submit your work in < 5min.
  • Spread the word about LISSA, and encourage others to submit their work.

For #OAweek, let’s make a strong showing of not only helping our patrons, but our fellow colleagues in libraryarchiveland!

You can get updates from LISSA on lissarchive.org or Twitter at @LISSArchive. We have a feed of new work on LISSA via RSS feed or Twitter @LISSA_SCHOL. You may also reach the LISSA board via email at lissarchive@gmail.com for questions, comments, or general feedback, which is most welcome.

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