Is your scholarly research really intended only for those wealthy enough to afford the journal you publish in? Or would you rather have your work freely accessible to everyone without charge, while still published in a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal?
On Monday, November 7, from 1 to 2 p.m., Dan Ream of VCU Libraries offers the workshop "Open Access Scholarly Publishing for Faculty." It is open to all.
As journal subscription costs have increased dramatically, fewer and fewer libraries can afford every journal that is needed, including some that are considered prestigious and essential. Faculty worldwide have responded by creating and publishing their research in open access, peer-reviewed journals that charge no fee to their readers. Faculty Senates from Harvard to Berkeley to the University of Virginia have endorsed open access publishing for their faculty, with a few even mandating that their faculty share their research with the world via open access publishing.
VCU's Faculty Senate last year passed a resolution urging the VCU promotion and tenure committees to reconsider the value of peer-reviewed open access publishing in promotion and tenure deliberations.
This one-hour session will introduce faculty to this revolution in publishing of open-access, peer-reviewed journals and demonstrate how to locate them in almost any discipline, as well as discuss the potential benefits of worldwide free access to faculty research. Options for faculty retention of copyright will also be discussed.
This workshop will be held in library classroom/lab 319 in James Branch Cabell Library. No advance registration is necessary. Address questions to Dan Ream, or call 828-6545 for more information.