Dan Ream of VCU Libraries is conducting a workshop titled 'Open Access Scholarly Publishing for Faculty' on October 27, 2011, from 1pm to 2pm.
As journal subscription costs have increased dramatically, fewer and fewer libraries can afford every journal that is needed, including some that are considered prestigious and essential. Faculty worldwide have responded by creating and publishing their research in open access (OA), peer-reviewed journals that charge no fee to their readers. Faculty Senates from Harvard to Berkeley to the University of Virginia have endorsed OA publishing for their faculty, with a few even mandating that their faculty share their research with the world via OA publishing.
VCU's Faculty Senate last year passed a resolution urging the VCU promotion and tenure committees to reconsider the value of peer-reviewed OA publishing in promotion and tenure deliberations.
Next week's one-hour session, open to all, will introduce faculty to this revolution in publishing of open-access, peer-reviewed journals and demonstrate how to locate them in almost any discipline. It will also discuss the potential benefits of worldwide free access to faculty research. Options for faculty retention of copyright will also be discussed.
The workshop will be held in library classroom/lab 319 in James Branch Cabell Library. No advance registration is necessary. A repeat session will also be offered on November 7 at 1 pm at the same location.
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