OU Libraries is Celebrating International Open Access Week!
October 23 - 27, 2017
*Open Access (OA) is free, immediate access to scholarly information online, along with the right to use and reuse that
information.
It's our fifth year participating in this event to raise awareness
about open access.
OU Libraries will be hosting three events:
Monday, October 23 from 12:00-1:00pm in KL 222
Searching and Selecting Open Access literature
Presenter: Stephanie Swanberg, Assistant Professor, Information Literacy & eLearning
Discover the best ways to locate OA publications. Learn how to select high quality journals for publishing your scholarship.
Thursday, October 26 from 12:00-1:00pm in KL 242
Open Access Cafe: Why Open Access Matters
Panel: Valerie Palmer-Mehta, Professor of Communication; G. Rasul Chaudhry, Professor of Molecular Biology
Learn about open access publishing and why it matters to research and scholarship. Join in the panel discussion with faculty publishing in OA journals
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Friday, October 27 from 12:00-1:00pm in KL 225B
Ditch the textbook - Save your students' money adopt an open textbook
Presenter: Caterina Pieri, Special Lecturer - Italian; Julia Rodriguez, Health Sciences, Nursing & Scholarly Communications Librarian
Learn how locate, use and create OER’s for your courses.
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning resources released under an open license that permits their free use and repurposing by others.
Light refreshments will be available at all events.
If you have any questions, please contact Julia Rodriguez, juliar@oakland.edu or Stephanie Swanberg, swanberg@oakland.edu