{"id":8309,"date":"2014-10-23T09:01:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T14:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=8309"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:02","slug":"10-ways-to-celebrate-open-access-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/23\/10-ways-to-celebrate-open-access-week\/","title":{"rendered":"10 ways to celebrate Open Access week"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week is the eighth annual\u00c2\u00a0Open Access Week<\/strong>, and that means confetti! No, actually, it means something much better than that: a week of discussions about the great and vital movement to make scholarship freely available online, so that it can be used by researchers and students and interested persons to advance knowledge.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Open Access Week started out in 2007 as a humble Open Access Day, with events organized by students and\u00c2\u00a0SPARC<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0(the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)\u00c2\u00a0on campuses across the US. Since then it has grown by leaps and bounds, and is now fully international \u00e2\u20ac\u201d on the\u00c2\u00a0Open Access Week\u00c2\u00a0website<\/a>, there are events listed in London, Kiev, Milan, Singapore, Cape Town, Valencia, Tunis, Belgrade, Poznan, and\u00c2\u00a0Aberystwyth, Wales.<\/p>\n

Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a list of a few other ways to get involved this week:<\/p>\n

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  1. Read\u00c2\u00a0David Dobb<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs fantastic\u00c2\u00a0Wired<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0article\u00c2\u00a0<\/a>on biologist\u00c2\u00a0Jonathan Evans<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dc crusade to publish his father\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s research, which is also a good primer on how OA journals like\u00c2\u00a0PLoS One<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0work<\/li>\n
  2. Study the\u00c2\u00a0timeline of Open Access\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Ask questions about the future at the OA\u00c2\u00a0Reddit AMA<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Look at an\u00c2\u00a0alarming graph<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0about the largest scholarly publishers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 profits (they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re bigger than\u00c2\u00a0Google<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs)<\/li>\n
  5. Memorize\u00c2\u00a0Peter Suber<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs\u00c2\u00a0six myths about Open Access<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and recite them during lulls at cocktail parties<\/li>\n
  6. Make a\u00c2\u00a0waffle rabbit meme<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0more or less about OA<\/li>\n
  7. Wear a\u00c2\u00a0real button<\/a>, or use a\u00c2\u00a0digital one<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0to get access to paywalled articles and contribute to a project that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recording all the times researchers are blocked by paywalls<\/li>\n
  8. Get mad (ok, mad\/scared) about the many, many articles on Ebola that are still not available to the public, and the recent attempts by scholarly publishers to\u00c2\u00a0use token releases for good\u00c2\u00a0pr<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. See an Open Access book\u00c2\u00a0in the wild<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. Tweet your support at\u00c2\u00a0#openaccessweek<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0or#oaweek2014<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    10 ways to celebrate Open Access week \u00c2\u00bb MobyLives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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