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Open Access Publishing - the Why & How In-Person
Open Scholarship Café - Part of Open Access Week 2022
In recent years, the rapidly evolving world of scholarly communication has been subjected to several divisive issues, but none as hotly debated as the transition to Open Access publishing. It seems to be a good idea but also a bit daunting and you might have heard about large fees in order to publish Open Access? And how is this useful for you as a researcher and author? If these are the questions you are asking yourself then this Open Scholarship Café (in-person) is for you!
Open Access is an academic publishing model which makes research freely available to read, avoiding subscriptions or paywalls. Open Access comes in many flavours and this session will focus on the Library’s recent Open Access agreements (also called transformative agreements) with a number of publishers that allow you as the author to publish Open Access without cost to you.
No previous knowledge or publishing experience is needed for this session! The University of Galway Open Scholarship Librarian Hardy Schwamm will introduce the rationale and process of these Open Access agreements, and the context in which these agreements have been developed. We will also look briefly at Green Open Access and how you can publish your research using our institutional repository ARAN.
At the end of this session you will:
- Understand the need for Open Access publishing
- Know how to benefit from the Open Access agreements that are available to you
- Be familiar with the options that Green Open Access provides
This In-Person Open Scholarship Café is part of the international Open Access Week which provides the chance to connect the global momentum toward the open sharing of knowledge.
Open Scholarship Cafés are organised by the Library of the University of Galway in partnership with the Open Scholarship Community Galway.
Image used by Chaosheng Zhang.
Related LibGuide: Open Access Publishing by Trish Finnan
- Date:
- Friday, October 28, 2022
- Time:
- 11:00 - 12:00
- Time Zone:
- UK, Ireland, Lisbon Time (change)
- Location:
- THB-G010 (Hardiman Building Seminar Room)
- Campus:
- Galway
- Audience:
- Postgraduate Researchers Staff
- Categories:
- Open Research