Open Access Week is coming up October 24 – 30, 2011, and many a university library is in the process of planning! Here are some of my thoughts as a scholar and activist:

• highlight and celebrate the work of open access activists on campus. Tell people about the OA journals we publish, edit, author / review for. Point people to our author pages and articles in the institutional repository – perhaps rotating on the library’s website, on monitors or posters around campus?
• have an event or event(s) for people doing stuff in open access – a drop-in networking event for journal editors, for example
• would anyone on campus be interested in a round table on working with your association to move towards open access?
• invite scholars to tell libraries what the library should do to move to OA
• basic educational workshops on OA – author’s rights, setting up an OA journal, participating in the repository – are always a good idea

Why not fit OA week planning into overall scholarly communication initiatives? For example, why not recruit content for the IR with a goal of highlighting this new content on OA week?

My two bits…

Posted: Thursday, September 15th, 2011 @ 1:27 pm
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