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Open Access Week is an annual event advocating for free and immediate online access to research articles worldwide.

Open Access

Open access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. - Peter Suber

Open Access Tools

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At SVSU

OER Introduction
Monday, October 25
2:00-2:30 pm
Copyright and the Creative Commons
Tuesday, October 26
1:00-1:30 pm
Free Citation Tools
Wednesday, October 27
12:00-12:30 pm

Other OA Events

Monday, October 25

Back to Basics: Demystifying Scholarly Communications
Kennesaw University
12:00pm – 12:45pm EDT

Tuesday, October 26

Breaking Down Paywalls and Building Up Equity: Open Access, Open Science, and Connections to Inclusive Knowledge
University of Maryland
12:00pm – 1:00pm EDT
Decentering Whiteness in Academic Knowledge Production
University of Colorado Boulder
3:00pm – 4:00pm EDT

Wednesday, October 27

So, You Hit a Paywall: Introducing Undergraduates to Information Privilege
Kennesaw University
12:00pm – 12:45pm EDT
Acknowledging everyone’s labor in science: The Heliocentric model of Open Science
University of Colorado Boulder
12:00pm – 1:00pm EDT

Thursday, October 28

Funding OA Book Publishing: New Initiatives at Cambridge, Michigan, and MIT
Adelphi University
10:00am – 11:00am EDT
Free Your Mind: A Discussion on Intellectual Freedom
Kennesaw University
12:00pm – 12:45pm EDT
TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) Meeting
1:00pm – 3:00pm EDT