Support for Open Access at MacOdrum Library and Carleton University

MacOdrum Library supports Open Access and Scholarly Communication through a number of projects and initiatives intended to provide the widest possible access to the work of Carleton researchers and scholars.

Open Access Publication and Repository Services

CURVE

The Carleton University Repository Virtual Environment, or CURVE is an open access repository which holds academic research output and creative work deposited by Carleton faculty, staff and students, as well as dissertations and theses produced at Carleton.

Open Journal Publication

Using Open Journal Systems, our journal hosting service allows Carleton faculty members to publish open access journals as a means of increasing availability of scholarly research and writing, and to increase involvement in disciplinary discourse.

Dataverse

Dataverse is a research data platform and repository for sharing, discovering and preserving research data. The service is offered to Carleton faculty and scholars in partnership with the ScholarsPortal service of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL).

Funding to Support Open Access

MacOdrum Library works in partnership with other entities on campus to provide direct financial support for Open Access publishing through the following initiatives.

CURIE Fund

The Carleton University Research Impact Endeavour (CURIE) Fund is a project to provide supporting funds to partially reimburse of article processing fees for works authored or co-authored by Carleton researchers which are published in eligible peer-reviewed open access journals.

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The Graduate Student Open Access Award, sponsored by the Graduate Students' Association (GSA), the Library and the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs (FGPA), was established to recognize the excellent work of Carleton University graduate students in publishing research in open access journals.

Public Knowledge Project (PKP)

Through a partnership with Ontario academic libraries we support the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), an international initiative developing open source software to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing.