Open Access Week is an annual program of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), which organizes global events to promote informed consideration of the potential benefits, complications, and challenges surrounding open access to scholarly information. Open access publications are digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
INFORMATION ON 2018 OPEN ACCESS WEEK PROGRAMMING TO FOLLOW SOON!
The USC Libraries have coordinated a keynote address to bring an important topic to the forefront:
Navigating an Open Access World: Avoiding Publishing in Predatory Journals
Join us for this year's recognition of Open Access!
Jeffrey Beall, University of Colorado, Denver, Scholarly Initiatives Librarian, will give a keynote presentation on the shifting landscape of open access publishing and the threat of predatory publishers.
This keynote will be followed by a Q&A with respondents offering alternative perspectives to open access publishing.
Monday, October 9th, 2017 in Doheny Memorial Library (DML) 240 at 12:00pm
Please RSVP at the link to reserve a lunch and seat.
http://bit.ly/2jqY72c
Events will be held at Doheny Memorial Library (DML) & Norris Medical Library
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Monday, October 24, 2016
10:30 am – 11:30 am, DML 241 (Doheny Memorial Library)
Open Access, Archives, and the Digital
This panel will pertain to the stakes in open access, as it relates to archives and digital culture in the humanities. As liaisons and generators of information between regulated spaces and the public, these panelists will discuss how information can be shared and accessible to the individual, no matter their status as professor or student or otherwise. What does it mean to their field to support open access and why does it matter?
Panelists:
Moderated by Eszter Zimanyi, PhD candidate, Cinema & Media Studies
Coffee and tea will be available
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Monday, October 24, 2016
Friends of USC Libraries Lecture Hall (DML 240)
Lunch and Learn: 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
(lunch delivered at 11:30 and the panel starts at 12:00 p.m.)
Open Access Publishing in the Social Sciences and Humanities: USC Faculty Perspectives
This panel will explore the reasons why scholars in the humanities and social sciences support open access publishing. How are USC faculty contributing to open access initiatives? How might contributing to open access journals, and monographs reshape the practice of scholarship, tenure and education? How can libraries support and promote open access publishing? The panelists will discuss these and other questions related to the challenges and benefits of evolving scholarly communication practices.
Panelists:
RSVP at http://bit.ly/opendml
Wednesday, October 26th
10:30 am – 11:30 am, DML 240
Open Educational Resources (OER)
Join USC Libraries faculty to discuss open education resources (OER) and how they can be used to allow for open teaching, learning, and research. Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed documents and media used for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes. Universities across the country are replacing costly textbooks with OER materials in their curriculum to promote ‘open’ resources and also for cost savings for students. In California, the state-wide Textbook Affordability Act (AB798) promises to expand the use of OER materials and provide professional development to professors who choose to use the free materials. The law and changing trends have implications for professors, students, and librarians at USC.
Coffee and tea will be available
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Wednesday, October 26th
12 – 2 PM, DML 240
Scholarly Publishing and Open Access
Join Sabbi Lall and a panel for a discussion of scholarly publishing and open access from the perspective of the publisher and editors. The panel of experts will answer your publishing questions. Lunch will be served.
Sabbi Lall has worked at Cell Reports for 5 years. She helped launch the journal, the first Open Access journal within Cell Press and went on to take the reins as Editor-in-Chief in 2014. Before that she was a Senior editor at Nature Publishing group for 5 years and a post-doc in Dr. Rajewsky’s lab at New York University after gaining her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Oxford/Cancer Research UK.
Lunch will be served.
RSVP @ http://bit.ly/opendml
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Thursday, October 27th, 2016
12pm-1pm
West Conference Room - Norris Medical Library (Health Sciences Campus)
Tech Lunch Series
Close Only Counts in Horseshoes and Slow Dancing: Open Access Options
Have you ever tried accessing a journal article and been asked to pay $20, $50, or even more for a PDF? Have you ever found the perfect article in PubMed only to find out the library didn’t subscribe to that journal? Then open access might be your new favorite thing! Open access is a movement to use current technologies to share information to further progress science and research. We'll talk about locating open access journals, how open access connects to NIH and NSF funding, discounts available to USC authors, and how to figure out which journals are open access and which are just plain predatory.
Pizza and bottled water will be provided
No RSVP required