On October 14, Purdue University Libraries will host a gathering as a part of the first Open Access Day, a special event prepared by SPARC, PLoS, and Students for Free Culture to highlight the importance and impact of open access to research publications.
Purdue’s event begins at 6:45 p.m. on October 14 in the iLab (room G-959) in the Hicks Undergraduate Library, and all Purdue University faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend. At 7:00 p.m., the event moderators will broadcast a live video stream presentation by Richard Roberts, a Nobel Prize winner and notable advocate for open access to scientific research. The presentation will discuss the significance of Open Access to scholarly research, and it will be followed by a question and answer session with attendees at more than 50 sites nationwide by teleconference. After the presentation, the Libraries will showcase work that has been done at Purdue to support open access research, and attendees will have the opportunity to engage the session moderators in additional discussion.
Open Access Day sponsors at Purdue University include the Purdue University Libraries; the Purdue University Press; and PUGWASH, the Purdue University student organization for Social Responsibility in Science and Technology.
Refreshments will be served. For more information, please check the Open Access Day Web page.