Faculty Celebrates Anniversary of OpenEmory : The Emory Wheel

"Emory is celebrating International Open Access Week with a number of events in honor of the one-year anniversary of OpenEmory, a free database for faculty to publish their work. Emory’s database has logged 1,800 articles with more than 9,000 article downloads, according to an Oct. 16 University press release. Thus far, the University has hosted a faculty panel and two webcasts. The panel consisted of Emory faculty who discussed the effect of open access on scholarly communication. The two webcasts explored the positive impact of free digital availability of research results and a conversation with Peter Suber, director of the Harvard Office of Scholarly Communications, respectively ..."