Open Access Workshop for Faculty and Grad Students

Event Date: 11/01/2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Location: SCH 705 (Center for Teaching and Learning)

The RU Library and the Center for Teaching and Learning are sponsoring events celebrating Open Access Week, a global event promoting Open Access as the new norm for scholarship and research. The open access model of publishing continues to emerge as an alternative means of enhancing and broadening scholarly communication without the problems of unequal access to scholarly resources, loss of authors’ copyrights, restricted and limited circulation of new research, and skyrocketing journal prices that subscription based for-profit publishers impose upon the scholarly community. Scholars, researchers, authors, teachers, and students in all disciplines have been, and will continue to be, affected by these and other changes in the scholarly communication process.

Join the workshop and discussion with Freeda Brook, Reference/Instruction and Scholarly Communication Librarian and learn what you can do as a researcher and author to influence today’s scholarly publishing environment. Topics will include: economics of open access, quality and peer review, institutional support, and practical steps you can take.

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