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Opening Doors Open Minds: The Open Access Movement

  • When
  • April 6, 2006
    5:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. (EDT)
  • Where
  • Washington, DC

Sponsored by the Washington, D.C., chapter of the Special Libraries Association, this event focused on the open access movement and its effects on access to scholarly information resources in the United States and in developing countries.

Open access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright holder. Two primary vehicles deliver open access to research articles: OA journals and OA archives or repositories. Melissa Hagemann, program manager of OSI's Information Program, spoke at the event.

For more information, see www.sla.org/chapter/cdc/events_files/Apr0606SLD.html.

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