Ep 02 - A Discussion on Open Access
In conjunction to Open Access Week, fellow students Melissa Seelye and Cal Murgu came by earlier this week to talk about the significance of Open Access in the fields of academia and LIS.
Various topics such as the positive impacts of Open Access publishing, how insitutional repositories work, and why Open Access should matter were discussed, among several others.
Discussions on Westerns' own institutional repository, the infamous Psyhub and Twitter pirating also included.
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Feel free to browse this list of resources to learn more about the Open Access movement.
(Jan. 30 Edit: Additional content plus extended resource descriptions to be added)
Open Access: Six Myths to Put to Rest - Guardian's Higher Ed Network Blog
Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications - Government of Canada
The Open Access Citation Advantage - SPARC Europe
Benefits of Open Access - SPARC Europe
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