Readings for Open Access Week.

peter.suber's bookmarks 2016-10-17

Summary:

"Next week (Oct 24-28) is Open Access Week. I hope you'll find some opportune moments to talk with colleagues about OA. To me, this is the main purpose of OA Week. If you don't have opportune moments every week to talk with colleagues about OA, then use OA Week as an excuse.

Talk from a stage, your office, their office, a hallway, a sidewalk, or a café table. (I just got back from a good session at the library of the Harvard Graduate School of Design.) The setting doesn't matter. Or if it does, personal settings may matter more than impersonal ones. Make the case in a way that your colleagues will understand, which you understand because you're their colleague.

If you inspire your colleagues to want to learn more, or to act, then follow up with some suggested readings. Here's a handful of my own that I can recommend, from shortest to longest...."

Link:

https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/QWBnpPmcp1Y

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Tags:

oa.new oa.oa_week oa.advocacy

Date tagged:

10/17/2016, 13:19

Date published:

10/17/2016, 09:19