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The UCSB Library is seeking proposals for their Open Access Week activities. Open Access (OA) Week is an annual international event that takes place the last week of October. In 2019 Library programming for OA Week will occur October 21-25. Proposals are accepted from members of the UCSB community through August 1. Read on for details!
The UCSB Library is seeking proposals for their Open Access Week activities. Open Access (OA) Week is an annual international event that takes place the last week of October. In 2019 Library programming for OA Week will occur October 21-25. Proposals are accepted from members of the UCSB community.
The Library welcomes a variety of program types and formats that showcase open access initiatives, or that illustrate (literally and figuratively):
- The opportunities, challenges, and impacts presented by potentially transformative open access initiatives
- The scholarly communication system of the future
- Research, collaborations, innovations, practices, and experiments concerning any of the numerous issues surrounding open access journals; repositories; preprint servers; monographs; data; open peer review; open educational resources and textbook affordability; community owned and controlled infrastructures; scholar-led initiatives, etc.
Open access is critical for increasing access to the scholarly record for research, teaching, and learning, and for promoting knowledge sharing and the advancement of knowledge for the public good. Our aim is to raise awareness of and to investigate the various approaches and strategies for advancing the transition to open access.
Proposal types include:
- Lecture (45 minutes)
- Roundtable discussion - seminar-style group discussion session facilitated by 1-2 conveners (one hour)
- Panel presentation (45 minutes)
- Tutorial or hands-on workshops (1-2 hours)
- Creative works to display or perform. These could include but are not limited to the visual arts, animations (e.g. Open Access Explained), visualizations, spoken word, poetry, one-act plays, monologues, reader's theater, songs, videos, films (features or shorts), musical compositions, etc. with a Creative Commons license.
The deadline for submission is August 1. Proposals received after August 1 will be considered for the following year. Complete details and the submission form are available here.