Shedding light on open access

Open Access Week 2012 is well under way with events being held across the world and information, resources and opinion being widely shared. A series of blog posts from Creative Commons NZ sheds light on a number of areas, including:

• Open Access in the Book Disciplines (Sigi Jöttkandt, co-founder, Open Humanities Press) - While the move towards open access is often framed in terms of journal articles, Sigi considers “the growing need for viable open access dissemination options, particularly in Humanities disciplines, which are heavily reliant on the book form.”
• Open Access and the Role of Universities in Society(David Nichols, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato)
• The Challenge for Scholarly Societies (Cameron Neylon, Advocacy Director, Public Library of Science) 

The first of these topics is very relevant to us in St Andrews, with our main event of the week focusing on the opportunities and challenges of open access in the humanities.

University of St Andrews Library Open Access Week event - still a few places left, see programme and booking details at: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library/information/furtherhelp/researchsupport/researchoutputs/openaccess/OAweek/OAhumanities/

St Andrews sunrise 24 Oct 2012