Open Access @ KU
KU Celebrates Open Access Week, October 24th through October 28th. This is an international celebration, with over 900 institutions world-wide holding events last year, representing over 90 countries.
KU Libraries will host a week of events for KU faculty, graduate students, and others who want to learn how open access affects them as authors and scholars and citizens.
Handouts, presentations, audio and video highlights of Open Access Week 2011 can be found in KU ScholarWorks, KU's institutional repository. The entire collection can be found at http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8330.
Schedule
Coffee and Conversations:How to do OA (Open Access) at KU
Watson Library, Room 455
This is a ‘how to’ session on making your published scholarship publicly available, geared to those faculty who are new to KU or new to the idea of open access and KU faculty’s open access policy. Presenters: Ada Emmett, Scholarly Communications Librarian and Marianne Reed, Digital Information Specialist. Refreshments will be served.
Publication Agreements: Going Beyond the Boilerplate for Copyright and Future Access
Watson Library, Room 455
Learn more about publication agreements, copyright, and publicly accessible scholarship. Presenters: Townsend Peterson, Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Rachel Rolf, attorney with the KU General Counsel’s office. Refreshments will be served.
The Future of Scholarly Publishing: Alternative Perspectives to the Commercialization of Knowledge
Kansas Union, Alderson Auditorium
This panel discussion will feature three national experts on open access and scholarly publishing:
Heather Joseph
Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
David Shulenburger
former Provost of the University of Kansas and
Senior Fellow (retired), Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU)
Clifford A. Lynch
Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Refreshments will be served.
As the events take shape, more information will be shared here and around campus. Last updated 10/24/2011.
To view, watch and listen to last year's events please see those available in our KU ScholarWorks' Open Access Week 2010 collection.
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