For the third year, CORROSION journal will be participating in Open Access Week. This worldwide event, taking place from October 21-27, recognizes the benefits of open research. Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) started this yearly initiative in 2008 to help foster a discussion about open research. This year’s topic, “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge,” builds on last year’s topic of “Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge” to help authors, editors, and publishers reflect on the topics of inclusion, equitable participation, and accessibility.
To provide an avenue to help all of our authors share their research openly, to the benefit of the entire research community, CORROSION supports green open access. This means that our authors may post an unformatted version of their final article in their institutional (or funders’) repository, giving them a means of publishing their research openly, regardless of their ability to fund the work. We also encourage all of our authors to promote their work through means such as Kudos and are continually adding resources to help them accomplish this goal. This provides authors with the tools to bring additional visibility to their research, regardless of the level of support they receive from their funders, institutions, or others.
We also “unlock” many of our articles temporarily, on a monthly and quarterly basis. These include our monthly Technical Editor Open Access pick, our Science Behind It crossover feature with Materials Performance, and other initiatives detailed on our social media pages and web site. By making more of our archive accessible to everyone, we aim to equip our readers with the research needed for their current projects, drive and inform decisions, and advance the general understanding and technologies related to corrosion.
During the week of October 21, CORROSION will be unlocking articles written by authors and research teams from around the world, highlighting the range of what we publish and the diversity of research being conducted in different regions. CORROSION will also be unlocking our invited critical reviews during Open Access Week to ensure that the global community has access to some of the most in-depth information available on different corrosion-related topics. The October issue of CORROSION will once again be unlocked during this week as well.
CORROSION will be posting more information about these collections on our web site and social media pages in the coming weeks. For more information about Open Access Week, visit http://www.openaccessweek.org/.
