Open Access Week 2013

Happy Open Access Week!
Tune in Monday October 21, 2013, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm for a live stream of the kickoff event, a panel discussion on “Open Access: Redefining Impact.”
Jeffersonians can commit to providing open access to their research outputs by depositing them in the Jefferson Digital Commons. Contact [e-mail] for assistance.
From http://www.openaccessweek.org/page/about
Open Access Week, a global event now entering its sixth 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.
Open Access (OA) has the potential to maximize research investments, increase the exposure and use of published research, facilitate the ability to conduct research across available literature, and enhance the overall advancement of scholarship. Research funding agencies, academic institutions, researchers and scientists, teachers, students, and members of the general public are supp...

Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - October 21, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Gary Kaplan Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news