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Open Access Week Double Feature @ the Grad Center, 10/26/2012

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
Friday, October 26, 2012

Celebrate Open Access Week with an Open Access Double Feature, Starring Faculty from Across CUNY!

Morning Session (10am-noon) — How to Go Open Access and How CUNY Can Help: Learn about open access scholarly publishing, authors’ rights, and progress toward a CUNY open access repository

Afternoon Session (2pm-4pm) — Open Access Textbooks and Open Educational Materials: Hear from faculty about how they created and used open access educational materials

A light breakfast will be served in the morning session.

Location: Graduate Center, Room 9205
Space is limited — RSVP required
Please RSVP to Jill Cirasella (cirasella [at] brooklyn.cuny.edu) or Maura Smale (msmale [at] citytech.cuny.edu), and please indicate whether you’d like to attend the morning session, afternoon session, or both.

Sponsored by the LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable (https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/lacuny-scholarly-communications-round-table/), the Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/oapn/), the UFS Open Access Advisory Group, and the CUNY Graduate Center’s Mina Rees Library.

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Save the Date(s)!

The semester’s just begun, but it’s not too early to save the date for this year’s Open Access Week, scheduled for October 22-28, 2012. We’ve heard that events and programs are brewing at several of the CUNY campuses, so watch this space for more information as the dates draw closer. And if you’re interested in getting involved in planning OA Week events, please get in touch!

What is Open Access Week? Visit the international Open Access Week website to learn more!

(Photo by Jean-Etienne Minh-Duy Poirrier)

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Take our poster, please!

What are among the stickiest, most strangling tentacles in the world?  That’s right, the tentacles of profiteering journal publishers!  (Why am I saying such nasty things about them?  Well, because they charge huge fees for access to articles that researchers give them for free and other researchers peer review for free.  That’s right, they get articles, copyrights, and labor for free, and then they make a fortune charging the (often nonprofit) institutions that employ those researchers for access to those articles!)

For Brooklyn College’s Faculty Day Conference this week, a few colleagues and I made a poster illustrating just that predatory behavior and introducing open access as an alternative. But we didn’t make the poster for in-house use only!  No, we want to share the files with you.  Change them a little or a lot and use them for your educational campaigns about open access!

(The octopus image is adapted from http://www.flickr.com/photos/luca-beanone-barcellona/4776886666/ (CC-BY-NC))