Open Access Week 2017: October 23 – 29
19/10/2017, 3:53 pm - TO 19/10/2017 - 3:53 pm
Imagine you could access any scholarly article or use any existing data set in the world, online and free of cost or access barriers.
From October 23-29, take part in International Open Access Week activities and learn more about how McMaster and other institutions, organizations and agencies across the globe are working to make this vision a reality.
Learn more about how McMaster University Libraries support open access
Open Access is a worldwide movement to make scholarly publications, data, and educational resources, such as open textbooks, available free of legal, financial or technical barriers for the benefit of researchers, students and society as a whole.
Institutions and funding agencies around the world are adopting open access policies that encourage researchers to make their scholarly work, including their data, freely available online in an open access journal or repository such as McMaster’s institutional repository, MacSphere.
McMaster University Library has developed a week of programming to help the McMaster community learn more about the evolving world of open access and to provide opportunities to participate in this global movement.
See the Schedule-at-a-Glance
See the Full Schedule