Scholarly Communication and Publishing Lunch and Learn Talk #12: Kickstarting Open Access Week 2014

For the June 2014 talk, we discussed plans for Open Access Week 2014, the 7th Open Access Week commemorated internationally and the 4th at Pitt.\ud \ud We began with a report on the recent SPARC-sponsored 2014 Open Access Week Planning Kickoff Webcast. Featuring speakers from California, Kansas, and Kenya, the webcast offered many good ideas on how to engage faculty, students, and library colleagues in Open Access Week activities and scholarly communications issues. \ud \ud Then we continued with some brainstorming to generate ideas on how we can use Open Access Week to get our message out about the open sharing of knowledge and how we can all deliver that message in a way that resonates with Pitt faculty and students. \ud \ud We also discussed some of our ideas for this year's Open Access Week, scheduled for October 20-26, 2014.\u