UC Merced Library to Celebrate Open Access Week
October 9, 2013
The UC Merced Library invites the campus community to celebrate Open Access Week 2013. Open Access Week is a global event focused on informing the academic and research communities about the benefits of open access publishing and scholarship. UC Merced will join other UC libraries and academic libraries throughout the world by hosting Open Access Week events during the week of Oct. 21-27.Events include:
- Webcast - Open Access: Redefining Impact, sponsored by SPARC and the World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
- Reception honoring UC Merced faculty members who are open-access-fund recipients
- Film Screening - "Copyright Criminals," a 53-minute documentary about the hip hop music sampling industry and the surrounding copyright issues
Visit the library’s Open Access Week webpage for event times and locations.
