Please join us at Syracuse University Libraries for an exciting series of events to celebrate Open Access Week.
Science Communication and the Threat of Predatory Publishers
Monday, October 21 11 a.m.–Noon Bird Library, Peter Graham Scholarly Commons
Open Access Week will kick off with a talk by Jeffrey Beall (virtual presentation) about the current state of predatory open access journals. Beall will advise researchers how to recognize and avoid such journals that pretend to be legitimate but trick scholars into submitting money and papers to them for publication. Beall is the author of the Scholarly Open Access blog and compiler of Beall’s List of Predatory, Open Access Publishers.
Open Access: What’s in it for Authors?
Tuesday, October 22 10–11 a.m. Bird Library, Peter Graham Scholarly Commons
SU faculty members Ian Gallacher (College of Law), Krista Kennedy (College of Arts & Sciences, Writing & Rhetoric), and Omer Preminger (College of Arts & Sciences, Linguistics) will discuss their perspectives on open access as faculty members, scholars, and authors, and will share their experiences in making their own work open access.
Issues in Digital Scholarship Forum
Wednesday, October 23 4–5 p.m. Bird Library, Peter Graham Scholarly Commons
Albrecht Diem (SU Department of History) will talk about his participation in a collaborative online translation project of Hildemar of Corbie’s 9th century Commentary on the Rule of Benedict. Chris Forster (SU Department of English) will discuss his work applying “distant reading” techniques to 20th century works in his investigation of the history of obscenity and literature.
OA Journal Publishing at SU Libraries and Press: Public: A Journal of Imagining America
Thursday, October 24 12–1 p.m. Bird Library, Peter Graham Scholarly Commons
Panelists will discuss the newly launched OA journal, Public: A Journal of Imagining America, supported jointly by SU Libraries and SU Press. Founding co-editors and designers Brian Lonsway and Kathleen Brandt will discuss the project’s origins and execution. Press and Libraries staff (Suzanne Guiod and Suzanne Preate, respectively) will discuss supporting OA projects through the open source software Open Journals System (OJS).
More details at: http://surface.syr.edu/oa_week/2013