Celebrate Open Access Week

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October 20-26, 2014 is international Open Access Week.


What is Open Access?  “Open Access mean free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need. Open Access has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole.”

The world of open access sometimes focuses on journal articles, but some academics have been exploring options for making their monograph publications freely publicly available.
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The Library also has a number of books related to open access, including:

Open Access by Peter Suber (2012)
Call # Z286.O63 S83 2012
 

Opening science: the evolving guide on how the Internet is changing research, collaboration and scholarly publishing  by Sönke Bartling and Sascha Friesike (eds). 2014
Call # Q179.97 .O74 2014
 
The access principle: the case for open access to research and scholarship by  John Willinsky. 2006.
Call # Z286.O63 W55 2006
 

 





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