What lasts longer than a handout? An online version of a handout! To see an online version of the handout we distributed at the open access teach-in at the Free University of NYC on May Day, go to https://openatcuny.commons.gc.cuny.edu/oa-academic-publishing-the-free-university-of-nyc/. As always, feel free to use, edit, distribute, etc.!
Join Us on May Day at the Free University of NYC!
This May 1st (tomorrow!), students, faculty, and the public are collaborating on a collective educational experiment: the Free University of NYC. Classes, teach-ins, skill shares, and more will be held in Madison Square Park (details + full schedule).
We’re delighted to be facilitating a teach-in on open access scholarly publishing at the Free University of NYC. Guiding questions may include:
– What is open access publishing?
– Why is it important?
– How can it help students, researchers, libraries, and the public?
– Why are academics boycotting publishing giant Elsevier?
– What are open access mandates and pledges?
– Where can you find open access materials?
– How can you make your own work openly-available?
We’ll be at the South Fountain in Madison Square Park at 10am tomorrow. Look for our sign, and come on out and join us!
–Jill, Alycia, and Maura
“Take it. Break it. Share it. Love it.”
On Mad Men, Peggy’s pitch for Popsicle was “Take it. Break it. Share it. Love it.” I say the same to you (well, whether you’ll love it is debatable) about this slideshow about open access scholarly publishing. I’ve presented variations of this slideshow (sometimes with the very awesome Maura Smale from City Tech, sometimes with the also awesome Margaret Smith from NYU, sometimes by myself) at a number of conferences and meetings, and now I present it to you to do whatever you’d like with it. Use it. Revise it. Share it. Decide you hate it and make something better.
(The slideshow didn’t entirely survive the migration to Slideshare. To see everything properly formatted and to watch the xtranormal video on slide 3, go to the original Google Docs presentation at http://tinyurl.com/oapn-cuny. Also, in the “Actions” menu, you can choose to create a copy of the slides or download the slides as a PPT or PDF file.)
As we spread the word about open access, we have to talk to a lot of people. Let’s not reinvent the wheel each time. If you have or know of any good materials for promoting open access, please post them in the comments!
