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Community over Commercialization

“Community over Commercialization” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week (October 23-29). This theme encourages a candid conversation about which approaches to open scholarship prioritize the best interests of the public and the academic community—and which do not." READ MORE

OA week 2023 evebts

This year’s OA week event will put you, us, and academic libraries at the center of the discussion.

October 26, 2023, 12-1 pm Nyberg Room

Bring your lunch and join your colleagues for an engaging discussion about how open-access publishing impacts your work and how a future where most academic journals will be free to read will alter our roles and academic libraries. Refreshments and sweets will be served.

Suggested reading  {if pinched for time- only read The OA environment and coming challenges section]

Tim Schlak & Alexis Macklin (2022) Open Access Overtaking Academic

Library Leadership: Staying Ahead of the Organisational Dynamics an Increasingly Open Future May Bring, New Review of Academic Librarianship, 28:2, 117-124, DOI:

10.1080/13614533.2022.2079539

Not into reading an article… here’s an enlightening video. (I just love the way he says libraries.) 

Library Futures 2019. Keith Webster -- Building the library of the future: leveraging OCLC research

Watch Clip  - 11:51- 29:58

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxAGPmR9VY0Rh-lw0qeOVRcDGlwrjeHwdq?si=slHgatRtQjZxu38g

All events posted here are open to the public. 

ACRL/SPARC Forum: Editorial Board Resignations to Align Journals with Community over Commercialization
90-minute discussion among representatives from editorial boards that have recently resigned in protest over publisher policies. 
When: Oct 12, 2023, 12:00 PM EST
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The Digital Humanities Lab and the Scholarly Communication and Information Policy unit at Yale Library invite you to our Open Access Week Keynote Session with Peter Suber, Senior Advisor for Open Access and Director of the Harvard Open Access Project and Daniel Dollar, Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources, Yale Library. 
When: Oct 25, 2023, 1:00-1:30 PM  ET -  Open Access at Yale Library Presentation
1:30-2:30 PM  ET  -  Fireside Chat and Discussion
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San José State University Library for its Biennial Open Access UnConference.
Fee, virtual event will offer opportunities for discussion and dialog on critical issues in scholarly communications. We welcome participation from all viewpoints and stakeholders in the scholarly communications process, including students and early career professionals.
When: October 25, 2023, 1 PM - 5 PM EST
Register at tiny.sjsu.edu/oa2023

"The Times They Are A' Changing: How Can We Fund Open Access Books Equitably and Sustainably?"
Expert speakers from the California Digital Library will give a library perspective, then we'll hear the publisher perspective from CEU Press, a small publisher with a big OA mission, who will talk about their Opening the Future program and where it fits within the evolving landscape of open access book publishing. 
Nov 1, 2023, 11:00 AM in EST
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