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Skill building opportunities for graduate students

As a graduate student at ASU, you may find yourself working in a research lab or a major project sponsored by a national funding agency but you may not always start a project with the skills you need to be efficient and successful. Here are a couple of opportunities both in and outside of ASU to giv...

Mimmo Bonanni

Open Access, the Other, and Cultural Change

There is an African proverb that illustrates open access for me, "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." The idea of working collaboratively in life, and with information, can help us to achieve more than we can do on our own. Prior to infor...

photo of Janice Hermer with open access logo

Open Access, COVID-19, and Being a Public University

Open COVID pledge Almost 10 years ago, while working in a public health department, a nurse asked me for suggestions on journals to publish in. I asked several questions about her goals, including whether she wanted traditional publ...

Matthew Harp

The FAIR and CARE way to meeting our commitment to Open Access - Open Access 2020 musing

In celebration of the second decade of Open Access Week, we want to share with you some new developments in ASU Library Research Data services and updates to our institutional repository, first launched in 2011.  Screenshot from Repository Servic...

Anali Perry

International Open Access Week 2020: Open With a Purpose

Established by SPARC and partners in the student community in 2008, International Open Access Week is a global, community-driven week of action to open up access to research. The event is celebrated by individuals, institutions, and organizations across the world. Each year...

Get certified in data science

ASU Library Unit for Data Science and Analytics now offering a six-module ASU Canvas Foundations of Data Science certification course....