Join the Libraries as we celebrate Open Access Week! October 19-25, 2015
What is Open Access you ask? Learn more from the Libraries’ OA Research Guide and from the OA Week website:
Open Access Week, a global event now entering its eighth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share 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.
“Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole.
Check out the Libraries’ events during Open Access Week:
Your Writing Rights: Understanding Publication Agreements
MONDAY, OCTOBER 19
9:30 AM • Klarchek Information Commons, Room 120
You put a lot of work into your scholarly writing. Make sure that you have the rights to use it again. This workshop will teach the skills of how to read an author’s agreement in order to understand what rights you are signing to your publisher and how you may reuse your work. You will then learn how to negotiate for additional rights and how to self-archive your work legally.
This workshop is intended for faculty and graduate students. Light refreshments will be served.
Questions? Please contact Margaret Heller at mheller1@LUC.edu
Who’s Devouring Whom? Preventing Publishing Predation
Featuring Dorothea Salo, Faculty Associate, School of Library and Information Studies, UW Madison
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21
10:30 AM coffee & pastries, 11 AM presentation
Klarchek Information Commons, 4th Floor
Scholarly publishing, once a quiet predictable oasis, has metamorphosed into a wild bramble-thicket that feels as full of threats as of opportunities. This Open Access Week, how will we learn to see beyond the thorns? How will Loyola ensure that its mission to “expand knowledge in the service of humanity” is not devoured by dread and doubt? How will libraries help build a fearlessly open scholarly community?
RSVP to libraryprograms@LUC.edu
Edit Wikipedia Workshop
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21
4:30-5 PM • Klarchek Information Commons, Room 120
To celebrate Open Access Week, join us for a session on becoming a contributor to Wikipedia. You will learn how to edit pages, create new pages, improve already existing content, and leave meaningful comments on the most popular open access website on the Internet.
Questions? Please contact Will Kent at wkent@LUC.edu
