{"id":35908,"date":"2015-10-16T08:43:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T12:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=35908"},"modified":"2018-05-24T16:20:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T20:20:11","slug":"open-access-week-2015-at-brock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2015\/10\/open-access-week-2015-at-brock\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Access Week 2015 at Brock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openaccessweek.org\/page\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open Access Week<\/a>, October 19-23, is a global event aimed at\u00a0educating academic and research communities on the benefits and procedures of Open Access and to advocate for its widespread adoption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpen Access\u201d to information \u2013 the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research and the right to use and re-use those results as needed \u2013 has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry and for society as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Brock University\u2019s James A. Gibson Library is offering a number of activities to commemorate the week:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Oct. 20 &#8211; Global Open Access Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, 2-4 p.m., Learning Commons Classroom A<\/p>\n<p>Brock will join a virtual, global edit-a-thon to improve Open Access-related content on Wikipedia. No experience needed for this hands-on experience, to be facilitated by Giulia Forsythe, Special Projects Facilitator, CPI.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Oct. 22 &#8211; Life after Access Copyright: Moving towards Open Access, 2:30-3:30 p.m., TH253 e-classroom. Register <u><a href=\"https:\/\/cpi.brocku.ca\/events\/node\/969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>Join us for a discussion of where we are at and where we are going.\u00a0Facilitators:\u00a0Blayne Haggart, Dept. of Political Science,\u00a0Jordan Snel, Brock University Legal Advisor, Research &amp; Copyright and\u00a0Giulia Forsythe, Centre for Pedagogical Innovation<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Oct. 19, 20, 22 &#8211; Open Access Fact or Fiction Prize Wheel. 12-1 p.m., Mackenzie Chown A Block<\/p>\n<p>Spin to win some sweet prizes and chat about Open Access.<\/p>\n<p>Questions? Contact Elizabeth Yates, Acting Head Liaison Services\/Scholarly Communication Librarian, ext. 4469 ~ <a href=\"mailto:eyates@brocku.ca\">eyates@brocku.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Open Access Week, October 19-23, is a global event aimed at educating academic and research communities on the benefits and procedures of Open Access and to advocate for its widespread adoption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":1800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,5],"tags":[2701,25,3484],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51205,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35908\/revisions\/51205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}