The University of California, Riverside Library will host International Open Access Week 2016, an event that is part of a global effort called Open Access Week. Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn about the potential benefits of sharing what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make “open access” a new norm in scholarship and research.
The Open Access movement is made of up advocates (librarians, publishers, university repositories, etc.) who promote the free, immediate, and online publication of research. The event will be held on Oct. 25 in the Orbach Science Library, room 240, from 1-3 p.m. ‘Open in Action’ is the 2016 event theme – the program will provide information on new publishing models, including those based on Open Access and other alternative publishing models for faculty. The panel at UC Riverside will discuss, ‘Challenges of Open Access in the Digital Age.’
The program will conclude with a presentation from three UCR librarians, Kat Koziar (engineering), Tiffany Moxham (medicine), and Michele Potter (engineering), who will provide an update on UCR’s Open Access discount and waiver agreements, and a brief look at emergent open access publishing models.
This will be the seventh International Open Access Week program hosted by the UCR Library. Those interested in attending should visit: openaccess2016.eventbrite.com. The event is free and open to the public.
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