Panel Discussion
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
The University Libraries are hosting a brown-bag forum:
“Open-Access Publications: A Faculty Panel Discussion”
Tuesday October 20th, noon to 1 p.m. in Room 303 of Michener Library
Dr. Jenni Harding-DeKam, School of Teacher Education
Dr. Deborah Kauffman, School of Music
Dr. Kathleen LaSala, School of Nursing
Dr. Madeline Milian, School of Teacher Education
Dr. Mark Riddle, School of Sociology
Moderated by Dr. Gary Pitkin, Dean of University Libraries
Celebrate Open Access Week
A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access by Peter Suber
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm
Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder.
OA is entirely compatible with peer review, and all the major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist on its importance. Just as authors of journal articles donate their labor, so do most journal editors and referees participating in peer review.
OA literature is not free to produce, even if it is less expensive to produce than conventionally published literature. The question is not whether scholarly literature can be made costless, but whether there are better ways to pay the bills than by charging readers and creating access barriers. Business models for paying the bills depend on how OA is delivered.
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