Open Access Week

2011 Open (Access Week) Idea Swap - October 3

Save this space! Online discussion coming October 3.

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Permalink Reply by Kimalee Phillip on October 3, 2011 at 1:33pm

Amazing! Thank you!

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer McLennan on October 3, 2011 at 1:20pm

Listeners are asking what SPARC is planning for the Week. Yes! We will launch a welcome/kick-off video, featuring stars of Open Access and the Web. An announcement is set for the week of October 17.

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Permalink Reply by Graham Steel on October 3, 2011 at 1:21pm

gr8 :)

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Permalink Reply by Yuan Li on October 3, 2011 at 1:29pm

Is that possible we can get the date, time and a couple of sentences of what's about it before Oct. 17. We'd like to send out our events flyer by Oct. 11, including the SPARC webcast.

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer McLennan on October 3, 2011 at 1:24pm

FROM MEL DESART AT WASHINGTON

The University of Washington is taking a completely different tack this year re: OA Week. In the past we concentrated on programming – usually 3-4 programs per year. Had quality speakers, good content (or so said the attendees) and pretty good PR/advertising, but mediocre to bad attendance. This year is a complete change – no formal programs at all. All efforts this year are being put into creation of an extensive exhibit in a high traffic lobby of our main library that will run for most of the month of October, and on advertising the exhibit. Exhibit content will include: journal/book pricing/purchasing history; for-profit vs. not-for-profit pricing and where journal revenue goes in each case; a life cycle of scholarly communication diagram; author rights: Creative Commons licensing; IRs and their use; interactive OA peer review; a glossary of terms used in the exhibit; a “Sticker Shock”-like price comparison; and a “guess the price of this journal” contest (with the journal changing weekly).

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Permalink Reply by Marianne Reed on October 3, 2011 at 1:25pm

Are you going to capture this content?

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer McLennan on October 3, 2011 at 1:27pm

This is it! Consider it captured : )

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Permalink Reply by Marianne Reed on October 3, 2011 at 1:29pm

Thanks, Jennifer! I was also wondering if Mel is going to capture the content of these exhibits and post them somewhere.

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Permalink Reply by Mel DeSart on October 3, 2011 at 1:33pm

Definitely going to. At least most of it. We have a publicly available Scholarly Publishing and Open Acccess page. Our exhibit content will be up on a page that will be linked from that top level page, starting sometime next week.