CUNY OA Road Show

Introducing the CUNY Open Access Road Show:
Bring CUNY’s Open Access Experts to Your Library

What Is Open Access?
Read all about open access.

Plan an OA Program!
Plan a program that will bring attendees up to speed on open access and enable them to be campus leaders in the open access movement. The program will provide:

  • A background on open access
  • A testimonial to the benefits of embracing open access
  • Insight into the political issues surrounding open access
  • Tools for bringing open access into research and teaching
  • A vision for moving open access forward on campus

What We Do
The CUNY OA Road Show can provide a program to fit your interests, needs, and schedule, from a two-hour presentation to a full-day program.

Program Modules
Design a program from these program modules:

  • OA introduction and definitions
  • OA models
  • OA benefits for the author, institution and discipline
  • A scholar’s how-to for becoming an OA author
  • OA peer-reviewed journals
  • The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition’s (SPARC) Author’s Addendum
  • Creative Commons licensing/usage
  • OA course materials: build your own
  • OA course materials: use what others have built
  • OA E-government
  • OA global issues
  • Electronic books & reader rights
  • OA in the arts and culture
  • Running an OA Week program on your campus
  • Starting an OA journal using Open Journal Systems
  • OA and reaching your students

Choose the modules that would most interest your attendees:

  • 2-hour event = 4 modules
  • Half-day event = 6 modules
  • Full-day event = 10 modules

DIY: Enhance Your Event!
Consider the following ways of enhancing your event. These are elements that you would organize — but we can give you ideas!

  • Promote your event to the library and all departments
  • Involve your students
  • Offer give-aways
  • Cap off your program with a free cultural event

Who We Are
CUNY OA Road Show presenters are primarily library faculty from CUNY who have previously spoken about and been engaged with OA. When appropriate, other speakers may be included as well.

What Next? Contact Us!
If you’d like the CUNY OA Road Show to create an event on your campus, or if you’d like more information, contact: