OUDaily.com | Open Access Week promotes free use of scholarly research

"For the first time ever OU Libraries are participating in Open Access Week this week to promote the free use of information for scholarly research...  OU Libraries has created a resource guide for faculty members, librarians and research funders to educate them about what they can do to promote open access. There is a display about open access on the main floor of Bizzell Memorial Library, and the library will also hold a webinar about copyright laws from 1:30-3 p.m, according to the OU Libraries website...  Although Open Access Week has been held globally every year for the past five years, OU Libraries public relations director Sarah Robbins said OU libraries has never participated in it.  Brown said the OU School of Library and Information Studies has not done anything for open access week in the past either.

This year, Rick Luce, the new dean of OU Libraries, pushed OU Libraries to get involved with Open Access Week, Brown said.  Luce was selected to serve as dean of OU Libraries in July, according to the OU Libraries’ website.  'We have a new dean, so we’re using that as our opportunity to start the conversation [about open access] on campus,' Robbins said."