New Mexico Library Association – Special Interest Groups

Open Access SIG

Join us!

Attend our August 2025 quarterly meeting!

Date: Wednesday, August 6th, 2025

Time: 2 p.m.

Place: Zoom – Register to attend the Open Access SIG meeting.

Mission Statement

The Open Access SIG will champion issues of open access in the state of New Mexico.

Definition of Open Access

Free and openly available curated scholarly or professional content published or housed on the Internet.

-Adapted from the American Library Association.

Our values

Open access removes the barriers caused by subscription and licensing fees in order to promote scholarly growth. OA scholarly literature is free of charge and often carries less restrictive copyright and licensing barriers than traditionally published works, for both the users and the authors. The open access movement is transforming the traditional model of scholarly publishing and challenging established norms for the access, sharing, and re-purposing of knowledge. 

While OA is a newer form of scholarly publishing, many OA journals comply with well-established peer-review processes and maintain high publishing standards. For more information, see Peter Suber’s overview of Open Access.

Participate

Choose us when you become an NMLA member or renew your membership.

  1. From nmla.org, click on the Membership tab.
  2.   Click the “Log In” button in the upper right hand of the screen 
  3.   Enter your email and password.
  4.   Click on your name at the top right hand of the screen.  This will bring you to your profile.
  5.   Click the “Edit Profile” button. 
  6.   Scroll down to Group Participation and select the SIGs you are interested in joining.
  7.   Then click the Save button at the top of your profile. This will save your SIGs to your profile and appear in the Membership Directory. The chair of the SIG will be able to pull your contact information from this list.
  8.   You can also send an email to the SIG chair to let them know of your interest. Check the NMLA Board Members list for contact information.

Already a member? Send us an email.