Open Access Week at UHM

What is Open Access? More importantly, why is it important and why should you care?

For starters, think about this: all over the world, university libraries are paying exorbitant fees to publishers for access to journal articles penned by their own campus' faculty - meaning that research has already been payed for by the university. What's more, the public - whose tax dollars have also funded that research - must also pay the publisher out-of-pocket to access the same article.

Open Access (OA) seeks to change this. Universities around the world are turning to institutional repositories to maintain access to their own research. OA journals are also gaining ground in publishing peer-reviewed research using a non-profit model. The groundwork has been laid, now we just need to get informed and get involved - starting with Open Access Week later this month!

The week of October 19-23 is Open Access Week - an international effort to draw attention to scholarly communication, authors rights and open access publishing. UHM library is hosting two talks that week as well as an information booth in Campus Center. Please join us to learn more about OA, meet others and join the conversation. Take a look at the announcement below and email me (asjordan[at]hawaii.edu) with any questions.

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