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It's Open Access Week 2012!

Did you know...

• Carleton has an open access policy
• Applications are now open for the 2nd annual Graduate Student Open Access Award
• Applications are ongoing for CURIE funding- Providing funds to offset article processing fees for open access journals.

Want to learn more about open access?

• Videos on traditional versus open access, gold open access & green open access (part of Writing for Scholarly Journals Library Series)
• Understanding author rights
• Beall's List of Predatory Open Access Journals- It's important to be aware of publishers/journals "that unprofessionally exploit the author-pays model of open access publishing (Gold OA) for their own profit"
• How Open is It? (pdf)- Moving the conversation from "Is it Open Access" to "How Open is it?"

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Open Access Week 2011 (October 24-28th)

MONDAY

Who: Karen Morgenroth (CISTI) & Wendy Watkins (Data Centre- Library) (This presentation is hosted by the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) and Carleton University Library, in association with the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL))

What: Introduction to DataCite Canada

When: Monday, October 24, 2011; 2:00pm-3:00pm

Where: Room 235 Library

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WEBINAR: The State of Open Access and the Student Role in Creating Change

When: Monday, October 24, 2011; 8pm EDT

Hosted by SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). Registration is required but free. Click here for detailed information and to register.

WEDNESDAY

Who: Wayne Johnston (University of Guelph)

What: Data Management and Improving Access to the Products of Research

When: Wednesday, October 26th; 3:00-4:00pm

Where: Room 235 Library

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WEBINAR: Open Access and the Impact of Open on Research

When: Wednesday, October 26, 2011; 12pm EDT

Hosted by SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). Registration is required but free.  Click here for detailed inforamtion and to register.

FRIDAY

Who: Members of the University Scholarly Communications Committee (includes members from Library, Faculty, Graduate Student Association & OVPRI)

What: Open Access Week Celebration (Including announcements about Graduate Student OA Award and CURVE- Carleton's new Institutional Repository)

When: Friday, October 28th; 12:00-1:00pm

Where: Room 235 Library

Note: Light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP the Library to attend.