The ART of the Digital Scholar – Open Access Session – Wednesday 5th March | ulcc da blog

"This Wednesday (5th March) will see the start of the ‘ART of the Digital Scholar’ lunchtime sessions. The first session in this short programme will look at Open Access, a hot topic in UK Higher Education right now. With all seven of the main UK funding councils now requiring Open Access compliance in some way, it seems anyone engaged in research must also start to engage with the issues of sharing their work in this way. We will start with an overview of the Open Access movement, and explain the options available for researchers. We will  be exploring some practical ways researchers can publish in an Open Access-compliant way. We will also be examining the implications of sharing outputs via Open Access, which aims to ‘remove both price barriers and permissions barriers’ (from Peter Suber’s Open Access Overview) Speakers will include Stephanie Taylor from the Academic Research Technologies team at ULCC , Dr Jane Winters, Reader in Digital Humanities and Head of Publications & IHR Digital from the Institute of Historical Research and Adam Crymble, editor of the Programming Historian and the project manager of British History Online. Come along to find out more and to join in the discussion ..."