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Open@UM

The University of Manitoba is committed to facilitating student learning and enhancing the student experience. Open access and open scholarship are avenues to achieve this mission.

Open access and open scholarship encompass a wide variety of supports and initiatives that endeavour to make research, information, and creative works more accessible, more transparent, and more equitable.

UM Libraries offers many supports to help you in your pursuit of open scholarship.

Learn about open initiatives

Need financial support for creating Open Educational Resources?

Apply to Advance Open Ed

Publish open

Author rights

How to make choices to retain your rights as author
Open access at UM

Discover APC discounts and other Library services for open
Navigating funder and publisher OA policy and compliance

3 steps to comply with funder or publisher mandates
Author assistance for self-archiving, publishing versions and permissions

Points to know when depositing work in a repository
Creative Commons and other open licenses

Understand how to apply CC and other licenses
Create open education resources

Create and modify OER's with Pressbooks
Using LaTex

Benefits and applications of LaTex in publishing

Evaluating open publishers and resources

Evaluating open access publishers

Learn how to protect yourself from predatory publishers
Evaluating open education resources

Use criteria and tools to assess the reputability of OERs
Evaluation of open science

Use standard criteria and tools to assess reputability of open research

Finding open resources

Finding open access resources

Use these starting points to find open access related tools
Finding open education resources

Use these starting points to find existing OERs
Finding open data

Use these starting points to find open data sources

Why open scholarship?

Advocacy for open science

Learn and share about the philosophy and value of sharing research
Open pedagogy

How teachers and learners come together in collaborative exploration
Citizen science

Learn how researchers and the public work together in collaborative discovery
Advocacy for open education resources

Learn and share about the philosophy and values of OERs

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Open@UM

Learn about open initiatives

Need financial support for creating Open Educational Resources?

Apply to Advance Open Ed

Publish open

Author rights

Open access at UM

Navigating funder and publisher OA policy and compliance

Author assistance for self-archiving, publishing versions and permissions

Creative Commons and other open licenses

Create open education resources

Using LaTex

Evaluating open publishers and resources

Evaluating open access publishers

Evaluating open education resources

Evaluation of open science

Finding open resources

Finding open access resources

Finding open education resources

Finding open data

Why open scholarship?

Advocacy for open science

Open pedagogy

Citizen science

Advocacy for open education resources

UM open scholarship examples