Institutional Repository Manager, Nikki Hentz, will introduce you to the ways in which the Library can help you make your research open access to maximize its reach. Digital Collections Manager, Sarah Stinson, will discuss our growing openly accessible Digital Collections of photos, books, newspapers and other primary research materials.

You have created a resource you want to be open access, why should you care about metadata? And what is metadata? Playing the metadata game What’s for Lunch? we will delve further into the functions and requirements for a complete metadata description and why it matters for open access material.

Ever wonder if your beauty or skincare products are helpful or harmful for you? Let’s examine Environmental Working Group’s database of cosmetic toxicology rankings to find out.

The landscape of open-access geospatial data is vastly growing with an abundance of open source software, websites, and datasets available to the public. How do we find and access these resources? Find out from the Geospatial Services Center.

Want to make your work freely available but feel nervous about unfamiliar journals? Join us for tips on evaluating journal quality, retaining your rights, and sharing your scholarship to maximize impact.

As part of Open Access week, the UNH Library is screening The Internet's Own Boy which depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews with his family and friends as well as the internet luminaries who worked with him. The film tells his story up to his eventual suicide after a legal battle, and explores the questions of access to information and civil liberties that drove his work.

Learn about the recent global history of scholarly publishing and its affects on the UNH Libraries. Open Access publishing offers one possible solution to the budget pressures we face.

The UNH Sustainability Institute and the University Library, with funding from the Provost's Office, have teamed-up to offer UNH faculty, students, and staff an incentive for participating in the Scholars' Repository. If you've submitted 8 or more articles for publication in a journal, you may be eligible.

Zotero is a powerful open source citation manager. Come learn how it can help you keep track of your research, create citations and bibliographies in Word, and keep you organized as you go!

Multiple US government agencies offer data visualizations that can be useful in the classroom, for presentations, or for general interest. We’ll tour a few of these sites, some of which offer interactive visualizations.

Dimond Library Instruction Librarian and avid genealogist Kathrine Aydelott will identify pros and cons of several open genealogical resources, and will include sites for getting more information out of your genealogy DNA test results.

Online, open-access preprints began in a single discipline in 1991. After a long period of slow development the quantity of preprint/postprint/eprint servers, disciplines represented, and sheer contentappears to have mushroomed (see Jordan Anaya’s chart), and maybe it truly has. What is going on? What drives the existence of so many distinct servers? Why are so many of them related to specific disciplines? Which journals accept submissions post-preprint-posting, and what is an author to do?

As part of Open Access week, the UNH Library will be screening Killswitch. This documentary explores the story of two young hactivists, Aaron Swartz & Edward Snowden, who symbolize the disruptive and dynamic nature of the Internet. Their lives parallel one another as they free information to millions on the Internet, putting them directly in the cross-hairs of the most powerful interests in the world.

The decision of how to share your data depends on several factors, including whether the data can be shared openly or not. Patti Condon (Research Data Services Librarian) discusses sharing data responsibly.

Did you know that the University Library provides hosting for open access journals? If you're intrigued by the idea of starting a journal or paper series, this presentation will walk you through the steps from conceptualization to launch.