From October 19-25, the Yale Library is celebrating international Open Access Week with a series of wide-ranging events. Events will focus on topics from the use of data, images and government documents, to knowing your rights as an author and understanding "predatory publishers."
What is Open Access Week? Here's a taste, from the week's official website:
Open Access Week, a global event now entering its eighth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.“Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole.
All events are listed on the library calendar.