Next week, AU Press will be celebrating Open Access Week, an international celebration of open access publishing, scholarship, and research. This year, we, AU Press, are also celebrating our tenth anniversary and so we are ten times as excited to be sharing this week with the OA community. We have a special presentation planned called “The Truth about Open Access Publishing.” We’ll be debunking myths about open access, discussing what we’ve learned, and answering questions. Everyone is welcome to attend this presentation on Tuesday, October 24 at 12:00 pm MST through Skype for Business using this link: Join Skype Meeting. You will need to download the Skype Meetings App if you are not signed up with Skype for Business. If you are unable to attend, we will be posting a recording of the presentation on our social media channels. Stay tuned!
There are many more public events happening across Canada. Check out a few of them below! Find events around the world on the Open Access Week website.
Edmonton
October 24: AU Press presents “The Truth about Open Access Publishing” and shares what they have learned over the past ten years as Canada’s first open access university press.
October 27: Librarians from MacEwan University and the University of Alberta are hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon that celebrates the music of Edmonton!
Montréal
October 23: Vincent Larivière, Canada Research Chair in the Transformations of Scholarly Communication, is speaking at McGill about “Scholarly communication and open access: what researchers should know.”
October 25: Learn how to make your work open access at Bibliothèque de la santé.
Lethbridge
October 24: The University of Lethbridge library is hosting a webinar about sustainable models for making monographs openly accessible.
October 25: Joerdis Weilandt will provide an overview of open educational resources at the University of Lethbridge Library.
October 27: Rumi Graham will share the advantages of publishing your next article open access.
New Westminster
October 26: Christina Hendricks discusses open pedagogy and how it might be used to open up teaching and learning practices.
