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Spotlight on Open Access

Librarians are increasingly receiving questions from faculty and graduate students about Open Access. What is it? Why should you care about it? To assist, the Library has created an Open Access FAQ and is planning a variety of activities during Open Access Week running from October 24-30.

“Open Access” is the term used to describe scholarly literature available online free of charge that can be copied, distributed, and used with proper attribution. There are a lot of benefits to Open Access, but two of specific interest to faculty and graduate students include more exposure to your research and higher citation impact.

To learn more about Open Access …

• Check out the Library’s Open Access FAQ. It includes answers to questions such as: |
  
  
  • “How scholarly are open access journals?”
    
    
  • “What is the relationship between Open Access and copyright?”
    
    
  • “How is Open Access valuable for faculty and students?”
    
    
  • “How does the uWaterloo Library support Open Access?"

The FAQ is available on the Library’s Subject Guides page (under “Interdisciplinary”) and is also linked to from the Copyright page .

• Review the “Five Benefits of Open Access (pdf)” document created by uWaterloo librarians. If it is useful to you, consider printing it and posting it in your department or saving it and sending it to your colleagues. See web version.
  
  
• Participate in Open Access Week activities. Visit our Open Access Week 2011 page for a full list of activities. Highlights of the week include:
  
  
  • Open access information booths at the Davis Centre and Dana Porter Libraries
    
    
  • A webinar Open Scholarship in the Digital Era by Chad Gaffield, President of SSHRC
    
    
  • Many open access giveaways, including handouts, buttons, and a chance to win 1 of 10 open access t-shirts.

We hope that you find the Open Access FAQ and Open Access Week information valuable. If you happen to be involved in open access activities already, either by publishing in open access journals or supporting other open access initiatives, we’d love to hear about it. Tell us how you’re supporting Open Access or connect with your liaison librarian to let him or her know.

For more information, contact:

Associate University Librarian, Information Resources & Services
ext. 33312

University of Waterloo Library
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Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
519 888 4883

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