Open Access Week

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Open Access Week Resources

Follow this link to see the Open Access Week presentations from the University of Cape Town. They have presentations for you to view or download on the following topics:

Demystifying Open Access

Exploring 'Impact': new approaches for alternative scholarly metrics in Africa

Finding open stuff

Creative Commons practical workshop

Academics' online presence: assessing and shaping your online visibility

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For my classmates... Here is a look at the business cards I left around Simmons this past week. Hopefully people saw them and stopped by my blog!

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Here is an interesting video I found on the Open Access Week website. It is an interesting way to visually explore the history of European countries to see what others have seen. So much is written about open access journals, but there's a lot of visual materials out there that are open access too. 

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Here is the description from Donna Pezzutto's post on the Open Access Week website:

OPUSeJ (Open-access Peer-reviewed Universal Scholarly electronic Journal) at www.opusej.org. is a new site, still in an incubation state, which is our answer to "Set the default to OPEN ACCESS". OPUSeJ is an academic article sharing site designed to handle all scholarly articles. Any article, by any author, on any subject, in any language, in any format could be submitted for peer-review to be published for free online access by all. Any article (or a pre-reviewed version of the article) that has already been published after peer-review, in any journal, could be registered at OPUSeJ as a Forum article. This is a site in which the author acts as a moderator for open comments and can post addendum, erratum and citations forward.

OPUSeJ is strictly electronic, run by volunteers and is peer-produced, so costs are low. Author registration fees would be nominal and are currently not being charged. All are welcome to view the site and consider contributing a new manuscript or registering an already published article. For more info read the editorial, Scholars without Borders at http://www.opusej.org/2012/10/24/scholars-without-borders/.

Sincerely,

Donato Pezzutto

Editor OPUSeJ 

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Open Access Resources

One of my classmates has created a wonderful website with lots of great open access information. She has lists of open access journals, open access software, and ways to get involved in the movement. I recommend checking it out! Find her website Open Access at the Turner Free Library here

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Event reminder

Don't forget to stop by the information table at Simmons GSLIS West @ Mt Holyoke College today. Simmons GSLIS students Natalia May and Laura Garcia will be hosting an information table on the Open Access movement in the Mt Holyoke College library courtyard from 12:00 - 1:00 PM. Stop by, grab a beverage at Rao’s coffeeshop, chat and ask questions about OA, watch entertaining short videos on what OA is all about, pick up your very own OA button and literature and learn more about the importance of the Open Access movement and its efforts to open scholarly research and publishing so that is it free and accessible to all on the web.

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According to the description on OCLC Research, "Hosted on P2PU (Peer to Peer University), the challenge is free, open to all and no experience is necessary. Participants will improve one Wikipedia article by embedding media harvested from open access journals. There are also optional and customized lessons available that teach the basics of Wikipedia editing. For experienced Wikipedians, the task should take 10 minutes. Others may take an hour or two to work through the lessons. All participants will receive a special edition open access Wikipedia barnstar (a badge of honor on Wikipedia)." Source

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Last year when I blogged about the Directory of Open Access Books, there were 756 academic peer reviewed open access books.

Today there are 1,217 from 33 publishers and they cover a range of subjects including Languages and Literature, Law and Political Sciences, Technology and Engineering,…

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If you head into Simmons this week, look out for my business cards advertising Open Access Week! Take some for your friends too!

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To celebrate Open Access Week 2012 Oct. 21-28 DuraSpace will post a new "For Your Repository Viewing Pleasure" each day (and beyond) to highlight the "splendid stuff in YOUR repository".

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We want access to all the arguments, evidence, and discussion. We want access to everything that could help us decide what to call knowledge, not just to the results that we agree to call knowledge. If access depended on the outcome of debate and inquiry, then access could not contribute to debate and inquiry.

Peter Suber "Open Access"

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SPARC/World Bank Open Access Week 2012 Kickoff Webcast

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How to make your own work open access

Here are some notes Peter Suber used in a recent presentation that discuss how to make your own journal articles open access. Follow this link to read more...

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Peter Suber Open Access Week event at MIT

In case you were unable to attend the event at Simmons College, you can see Peter Suber speak at MIT later this week. As MIT states on their website:

"Please join us for a lively discussion about open access and its importance for scholarship and research at MIT and beyond, with panelists Peter Suber, author of the recently released MIT Press book Open Access, and Richard Holton, MIT professor of Philosophy and Chair of the MIT Faculty Open Access Working Group."

Details:

The session will be held Wednesday, October 24, from 4-5 pm, in Room E25-111

For more information, you can check out their website here

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Boston area Open Access Week events

I just want to reiterate some of the Open Access Week events that are happening this week in the Boston area.

Event #1

“How to Make Your Research Open Access (Whether You’re at Harvard or Not).” 

Date: October 23rd - 12:30 p.m.

Location: Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, 2nd Floor

Hosted by: the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Office for Scholarly Communication

Event #2

“Open Access to Health Research: Future Directions for the NIH Public Access Policy”

Date: October 24

Location: Harvard Law School in Hauser Hall, room 104

Co-sponsored by: the Office for Scholarly Communication, Right to Research Coalition, and Universities Allied for Essential Medicines