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Resources and Information about the Open Access Movement
Last update: Oct 29th, 2009 URL: http://guides.library.ucla.edu/OpenAccess  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Open Access Week Events


  • Mon, Oct 19th, 2009: CDL’s eScholarship for Librarians  
    10-11 a.m., Charles E. Young Research Library West Electronic Classroom
    Elise Proulx, outreach and marketing coordinator for the eScholarship publishing program, will unveil the new eScholarship interface and services available to scholars.
  • Mon, Oct 19th, 2009: Graduate Student Association Publications Panel on Open Access Journals  
    1-3pm, Kerckhoff Hall 131
    This session will introduce student editors of GSA publications to the benefits of moving journals from print to online, inform them about open access, and showcase eScholarship services.
  • Tue, Oct 20th, 2009: How Can OA Change the Ways We Do Scholarship in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences?  
    4:30-6:30 p.m., Charles E. Young Research Presentation Room
    Is open access simply an easier, less expensive way for scholars to publish their research, or does it effect fundamental changes in how we “do” scholarship?
  • Wed, Oct 21st, 2009: The Google Book Settlement: Issues and Options  
    11 a.m.-noon, Charles E. Young Research Presentation Room
    Jonathon Band will give an informal talk on and answer questions about issues of concern to academic authors and libraries regarding the Google settlement.
  • Thu, Oct 22nd, 2009: Opening Access to Students  
    3-5 p.m., GSEIS 111
    UCLA campus groups are developing creative new ways for students to easily access essential course materials and publications and to publish and broadly disseminate quality undergraduate research.
  • Thu, Oct 22nd, 2009: Melnitz Movies Screening of RIP: A Remix Manifesto  
    7:30 p.m., James Bridges Theatre, Melnitz Hall 1409
    This documentary about the emerging remix culture and its conflict with current copyright law focuses on musical mash-up artist Girl Talk, while also spanning the history of copyright law.
 
 

What is Open Access?

"...digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions."

"...compatible with copyright, peer review, revenue (even profit), print, preservation, prestige, career-advancement..."
 - Open Access Overview

 

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