Category: OA Week 2013

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Open Access to Scholarly Literature: Which Side Are You On?

120x240You are invited to the first event in the Information Interventions @ CUNY series!

Open Access to Scholarly Literature: Which Side Are You On?
Friday, October 25, 2013
10am – noon
The Graduate Center
Rooms C201/C202 (Concourse Level)
Refreshments will be served

Open access (OA) to scholarly literature recently hit a major milestone: Half of all research articles published become open access, either immediately or after an embargo period. Are the articles you read among them? What about the articles you write? Are the journals to which you submit open-access friendly? What about the journals for which you peer review? Are there any reasons why the public should not have access to the results of taxpayer-funded research?

Jill Cirasella (Associate Librarian for Public Services and Scholarly Communication, Graduate Center) will explain the motivation for OA, describe the details of OA, and differentiate between publishing in open access journals (“gold” OA) and self-archiving works in OA repositories (“green” OA). She will also dispel persistent myths about OA and examine some of the challenges to OA.

Please RSVP by Friday, October 18 to Jill Cirasella or Maura Smale. This event is sponsored by the LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable and JustPublics@365.

And that’s not all! There are more Information Interventions @ CUNY coming up!

Save the Date for our upcoming event on predatory journals and conferences!
Friday, November 15, 2013
10am-noon
The Graduate Center
C203/C204 (Concourse Level)

And stay tuned for Spring 2014 events about open educational resources and the controversy surrounding dissertations and open access!

This workshop is being offered as a part of Open Access Week (October 21-27, 2013). For more information about the problems with traditional journal publishing and the promise of open access publishing, and to learn about Open Access Week events across CUNY, visit https://openaccess.commons.gc.cuny.edu/.

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Open Access: The Basics, October 21 at Queens College

The Center for Teaching and Learning at Queens College is sponsoring an event during Open Access Week. If you’d like to learn more about open access, this talk is for you! We will cover:

– The benefits of open access publishing
– Authors’ rights
– Green open access (self-archiving on the web)
– Gold open access (open access journals)
– Evaluating potential publishers
– Resources at QC to help you learn more about open access.

Speakers:
Nancy Foasberg, Humanities Librarian, Benjamin Rosenthal Library
Kelly Blanchat, Electronic Resources Librarian, Benjamin Rosenthal Library

Date: Monday, October 21, 2013
Time: 12:15pm-1:30pm
Location: Razran Hall Room 360, Queens College
Light refreshments will be served.

Please help us plan the event by registering here.

For more information, visit the CTL website.

This workshop is being offered as a part of Open Access Week (October 21-27, 2013). For more information about the problems with traditional journal publishing and the promise of open access publishing, and to learn about Open Access Week events across CUNY, visit https://openaccess.commons.gc.cuny.edu/.

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Open Access Week is Coming Soon!

This year’s Open Access Week — the 6th year for this international event — is scheduled to take place October 21-27. If you’re planning an event at your campus to celebrate, please let us know so we can include it here! Last year there were lots of fantastic events across the university, and there are surely lots of great plans in the works for this year, too.

Email your event info to msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or post it on our Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY forum and we’ll be sure to add it here.

And if you’re looking for posters, info sheets, logos, or other materials to use for Open Access Week on your campus, definitely check out the OA Week website. There’s even a gorgeous new poster for this year:

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