What is Open Access?
Open Access is a growing international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge.
Open Access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder. OA is entirely compatible with peer review, and all the major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist on its importance. Just as authors of journal articles donate their labor, so do most journal editors and referees participating in peer review.
OA literature is not free to produce, even if it is less expensive to produce than conventionally published literature. The question is not whether scholarly literature can be made costless, but whether there are better ways to pay the bills than by charging readers and creating access barriers. Business models for paying the bills depend on how OA is delivered.
Learn more about Open Access this week by attending any of our Open Access Week events or stopping by our table outside of the Lantern on Tuesday, Oct. 23 between 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
View or download the flyer here.
October 22
Screening of Paywall The Movie
12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
KL 397
The UC Open Access Policies Workshop
2 p.m.- 2:50 p.m.
KL 360
October 23
eScholarship and Open Access Publishing Workshop
1 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.
KL 360
ORCID IDs Workshop
2:30 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
KL 360
October 24
Creative Commons Workshop
12 p.m. -12:50 p.m.
KL 360
October 25
The UC Open Access Policies Workshop
10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
KL 360
October 26
Movie Night - The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
KL 397
