Open Access Week 2010
NEWS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: 10/7/10
CONTACT: LESLIE SCHALER, COMMUNICATION PROGRAM COORDINATOR, (413) 545-0162
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES AND PARTNERS HOST OPEN ACCESS WEEK
October 18 - October 22
“LEARN. SHARE. ADVANCE.”
Amherst, MA – Open Access Week, a global event in its fourth year, will be held from Oct. 18 to Oct. 22 this year. As part of 2010 Open Access Week, UMass Amherst Libraries will host a series of events relevant to open access journals, open conference proceedings, open educational resources, open data, and copyright and author rights. All events are free and open to the public. Full schedule at http://scholarworks.umass.edu/oa/2010/.
“Open Educational Resources: Teaching Material for the Public Good” will be held on Tuesday, October 19, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m., in Room 1320, Du Bois Library. It will provide an open discussion about the OER movement, which offers materials for all to use freely. Instructors will learn how to re-mix, repurpose and redistribute materials while saving students money. Discussion will focus on the successful use of OERs and touch on issues raised at the 9/21 event, “How Can a Textbook Be Free? Keeping Higher Education Affordable with Open Resources.” Lunch will be provided.
“I Can Has Data?” a focus group for graduate students, will explore how research data is created, used, and shared by students on campus on Tuesday, October 19, from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m., in Room 1320 of Du Bois Library. The goal of the focus group is to inform the Libraries’ own investigation into research data management, with the idea of building useful services for students and faculty. Pizza will be served. Co-sponsored by the Graduate School.
“Hosting a Scholarly Conference on Campus? ScholarWorks Can Help!” will be held on Tuesday, October 19, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m., in Room 1320, Du Bois Library. Keynote speaker, Susan Leschine, professor of microbiology, will share her experience working with ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst. Other speakers include Michael Ellman, Director of UMass Amherst Hospitality Services, and scholarly communication librarians. Refreshments will be served.
“Using Images in Your Research,” an informal discussion about image resources both on and off campus, will be held on Thursday, October 21, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., in Room 2601, Du Bois Library. Refreshments will be served.
“Making the Open Access Choice for your Thesis or Dissertation” will be held on Thursday, October 21, from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m., in Room 1320, Du Bois Library. The event will give graduate students an overview of open access and the benefits of choosing open access for electronic theses and dissertations. Discussion time will explore graduate students' thoughts about open access. Pizza will be served. Co-sponsored by the Graduate School.
“Exploring Open Access Journals: Celebrating the Launch of Landscapes of Violence” will be held on Thursday, October 21, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m., on Rm 2601, Du Bois Library. The event will provide an overview of the field of open access journals, introduce ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst, and celebrate the launch of the new interdisciplinary open access journal, Landscapes of Violence, a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal focused on studies of violence, warfare, conflict, trauma, and human rights. Refreshments will be served. Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.
“Copyright Issues for Faculty” will be held on Friday, October 22, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Room 2601, Du Bois Library. This overview of copyright issues for instructors will discuss how faculty can protect the rights to their own works, share what they want to share, find copyright-free works, and properly use the copyrighted works of others. Refreshments will be served. Co-sponsored by Academic Computing.
Open Access is the principle that research should be made freely available via the Internet, especially in the case of publicly funded research. Research has shown that providing open access to scholarly work dramatically increases the number of times the work will be cited in the future. UMass Amherst faculty can provide open access to their work by participating in ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (http://scholarworks.umass.edu/), a digital repository service provided by the UMass Amherst Libraries. For more information, contact Marilyn Billings, mbillings@library.umass.edu, 413-545-6891.
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Last Edited: 18 October 2010
