The University of Oregon Libraries will help celebrate Open Access Week on the UO campus Oct. 19-23 by hosting a series of lectures, panel discussions, workshops and other activities on the topics of scholarly publishing and open access.
Open access is defined as the “worldwide electronic distribution of the peer-reviewed journal literature, with completely free and unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars, teachers, students, and other curious minds.” Open access shifts the costs of producing scholarship away from the reader, and by so doing makes it more likely that research results and scholarly works will be used as they are intended: to be read and cited.
During Open Access Week, UO faculty members and others can learn about a UO program sponsored by the UO Vice Provost’s office that underwrites publication fees for publishing in open access journals, and about commitments by several departments to make all of their scholarship open access. Other sessions will explore issues related to open access textbooks, open access to primary legal materials, and the UO’s own open access archive, Scholars’ Bank.
The complete schedule of events follows. All events will be held in Knight Library.
Monday, Oct. 19, 2:00 p.m., Studio A
Open Textbooks and Other Educational Resources
Tuesday, Oct. 20, 12:30 p.m., Room 144
Scholars’ Bank Hands-On Workshop
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 10:30 a.m., Rm. 115H
Panel on Open Access Mandates (w/Oregon State University)
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 1:00 p.m., Room 122
An Introduction to Open Access
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2:00 p.m., Room 122
Panel on Open Access Author Funding
Thursday, Oct. 22, 10:00 a.m., Studio A
Panel on Open Access Mandates
Thursday, Oct. 22, 11:30 a.m., Rm. 267B
How Do I Put My Work in Scholars’ Bank?
Friday, Oct. 23, 11:00 a.m., Studio A
Open Government, with Carl Malamud
For more information and a detailed program link, visit http://libweb.uoregon.edu/scis/sc/oaweek09.html or contact JQ Johnson, the library’s director of scholarly communications, jqj@uoregon.edu, 346-1746.
