Open Access Info & Resource Guide

“Open access starts at home,” says Salo, who sees the profession as “disastrously timid about supporting experimentation and the business models we think preferable, speaking truth to power, even just modeling the behaviors we want faculty to adopt.” Issuing a call to arms, she warns, “We can’t just wring our hands about the serials crisis [...]

Adventures in poster making

Alternate title: An indefinite guide on how to make a conference poster for a library conference.

Yesterday, I took part in my first poster session at the OLA Super Conference and all in all, things went really well. I went into this endeavor a total novice, however, so I thought it might be helpful to others [...]

Open Access Week 2010

Save the date: October 18-24, 2010

A date has now been selected for International Open Access Week 2010. *hooray*

Program details will be available in the coming weeks and months at http://www.openaccessweek.org.

Last October, a significant number of academic libraries in North America took part in Open Access Week, promoting OA publishing initiatives through hosting guest speakers and [...]