In celebration of International Open Access Week, the Leddy Library will host a discussion Monday, Oct. 21, about how it can help researchers make their work Open Access.

Presenters will discuss key developments and changes within the worlds of Open Access that UWindsor researchers should know about: publishing and self-archiving infrastructure and available supports, scholarly communications updates at Leddy and beyond, the library’s licence agreements with journal publishers, open science and open data, copyright considerations, Open Educational Resources, and more.

The theme of this year’s Open Access Week, Oct. 21 to 27, is “Community over Commercialization,” says scholarly communications librarian Amelia Ritchie of the Leddy Library.

“Open Access is important because it means that more people can discover, read, and expand upon quality research,” she says. “Open Access Week gives us the opportunity to come together with the global scholarly community in pursuit of the ideal of making our research more accessible.”

The Leddy event will run online from 2 to 3 p.m., with a chance to ask questions after the formal presentations. It is free and open to the campus community, and aimed particularly at faculty members, graduate students, post-docs, and research staff. Register here.