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UNMC Published Journals in Digital Commons: An Open Access Week Conversation with the Editors 

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By Heather Brown

On October 22 from noon – 1 p.m., McGoogan Health Sciences Library will host a panel discussion of UNMC based journal editors in observance of International Open Access Week. The editors will discuss their experiences starting and maintaining an open access scholarly journal. Panelists will represent three journals that are hosted in the McGoogan Library’s DigitalCommons@UNMC repository.  

  • Graduate Medical Education Research Journal (editors: Chandrakanth Are, MBBS, MBA, FRCS, FACS and Premila Leiphrakpam, MBBS, DGO, PhD) 
  • Innovations in Health Sciences Education Journal (editors: Elizabeth Beam, PhD, RN and Maha Farid, MBBCH, MS, PhD) 
  • Translational Science in Occupation (editors: Nancy E. Krusen, PhD, OTR/L and M. Nicole Martino, PhD, OTR/L) 

This panel will be presented via Zoom.
Registration (https://unmc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_N-HPK4-KTnGJ3rS_73bViA) is required. 

DigitalCommons@UNMC is an institutional repository provided by the McGoogan Library. Scholarly works of UNMC faculty, staff, and students are represented in this open access platform that is searchable in Google and Google Scholar. The journal platform within DigitalCommons@UNMC contains full editorial and peer review management, as well as an analytics dashboard and is available to the UNMC community members wishing to publish a recurring open access journal. For more information, contact Heather Brown at hlbrown@unmc.edu.   

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