[GOAL] Open Access Week at the Office of Scholarly Communication, Cambridge - Monday

[Danny Kingsley]

<Apologies for cross posting>

Welcome to Open Access Week 2016! The Office of Scholarly Communication 
at Cambridge is celebrating with a series of blog posts written by 
members of the Office of Scholarly Communication team, events and 
announcements. We will send out a daily notice, and information will be 
added to our OA Week webpage - 
http://osc.cam.ac.uk/open-access/open-access-week-2016 throughout the week.

*Blogs*

Today we have published two blogs looking at the issue of hybrid open 
access:

*Hybrid open access- an analysis* 
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=969 looks at the origin 
of hybrid, the changing funder requirements and the uptake of hybrid in 
the UK versus the rest of the world
*Who is paying for hybrid?* 
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=1002 analyses whether 
funds allow payment for hybrid open access

*Announcement*

In response to issues with compliance we have written an *open letter to 
/Blood/  journal* to request they amend their advice to authors funded 
by RCUK and COAF and offer a compliant option. You can see the letter 
here https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=1018 and if you 
wish to add your name to the signatures, please email info at osc.cam.ac.uk 
<mailto:info at osc.cam.ac.uk>

*Events*

*Today* we are holding an*/Introduction to Open Research for STEM PhD 
students/* 
http://osc.cam.ac.uk/introduction-open-research-stem-phd-students This 
is part of the work we are doing around the issue of Open Research at 
Cambridge, given our researcher's expressed interest in the topic - 
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=817 we have started 
building some resources around Open Research on the OSC website 
http://osc.cam.ac.uk/open-research in addition to our blog post series 
on the topic 
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?page_id=2#OpenResearch

On *Tuesday *we are presenting an event */"Preprints: biomedical science 
publication in the era of Twitter and Facebook"/* 
http://osc.cam.ac.uk/preprints-biomedical-science-publication-era-twitter-and-facebook We 
will be live streaming the event *you can join in the discussion on the 
**hashtag#pptsCamOA*

This event will bring together publishers and funders to talk about 
about how preprints might help researchers:

  * John Inglis (BioRxiv, CSH)
  * Mark Patterson (eLife)
  * Katherine Brown (The Company of Biologists)
  * Hannah Hope (The Wellcome Trust)
  * Sophia Abbasi (BBSRC)
  * Steven Royle (University of Warwick),
  * Raymond Goldstein, Alfonso Martinez Arias, Sudhakaran Prabakaran and
    Aylwynn Scally (University of Cambridge)


On *Wednesday* we will be holding a debate - */"Open Access: grassroots 
movement or top-down imposition?"/* 
http://osc.cam.ac.uk/open-access-grassroots-movement-or-top-down-imposition-panel-discussion-open-access-week-2016 where 
panellists will discuss this question and any related questions from the 
audience and general public. *You can send your questions via Twitter to 
**#OAWeekCam *

The panel are:

  * Mark Patterson - Executive Director, eLife and former Director of
    Publishing at PLoS
  * Kirstie Whitaker - Cambridge neuroscience researcher, advocate of
    open science and organiser of OpenCon Cam 2015 and 2016
  * Matt Hodgkinson - Head of Research Integrity at Hindawi, formerly
    editor at PLoS ONE and BioMed Central
  * Stuart Lawson - researcher at Birkbeck, University of London
    undertaking a PhD in the politics of open access.

In addition to the live audience, we will stream the session through the 
Cambridge University Library YouTube channel and invite engagement via 
Twitter throughout the discussion*on the hastag #OAWeekCam*

-- 
Dr Danny Kingsley
Head, Office of Scholarly Communication
Cambridge University Library
West Road, Cambridge CB39DR
P: +44 (0) 1223 747 437
M: +44 (0) 7711 500 564
E: dak45 at cam.ac.uk
T: @dannykay68
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S: http://www.slideshare.net/DannyKingsley
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3636-5939

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