International Open Access Week is Monday, Oct. 21, through Sunday, Oct. 27, and the J. Murrey Atkins Library will hold a number of public events to promote the open access movement in the publishing of scientific and scholarly literature.
Peter Suber from the Harvard University Office of Scholarly Communications is a leading voice in the Open Access Movement. His definition of open access has been accepted widely in the academic publishing world – open access literature is digital, online, free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. He will present a Web conference at 2 p.m., Oct. 23, in Atkins Library, Room 273.
There also will be information sessions and other webinars throughout the week on a variety of topics, such as “Measuring Impact and Changing Scholarly Practices” and “Researchers’ Guide to NIH Open Access Mandate.” A schedule is on the Web.
Atkins Library also plans to hold an Open Access Symposium on Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 4-5.