{"id":756,"date":"2015-10-13T02:15:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T02:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/?p=756"},"modified":"2015-10-18T20:36:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T20:36:21","slug":"open-access-what-is-it-and-why-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/open-access-what-is-it-and-why-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Access. What is it and why should I care?  &#8211; plus OA baking! (1pm, Mon 19 October, #OAweek)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_760\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-760\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/files\/2015\/10\/Open-Access-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-760 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/files\/2015\/10\/Open-Access-logo-300x145.png\" alt=\"Open-Access-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/files\/2015\/10\/Open-Access-logo-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/files\/2015\/10\/Open-Access-logo-500x242.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/files\/2015\/10\/Open-Access-logo.png 516w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image CC BY, openaccessweek.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Why are governments, funders and institutions around the world mandating or encouraging Open Access? What does it mean for my discipline? My department? Me, as an individual researcher or teacher?<\/p>\n<p>Our opening event for OA Week offers an introduction to OA, its demonstrable benefits to the scholarly pursuit and the challenges it presents. This session will provide a broad overview of current developments in OA and examine what the future might hold.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll also be launching a survey of Otago staff, which asks about practices in and attitudes towards OA publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Come along and share your experiences or bring your questions.<\/p>\n<p>As an added bonus there will be open access baking. You&#8217;ll have to come find out what that is!<\/p>\n<p>When: 1 &#8211; 2pm Monday 19 October 2015<br \/>\nWhere: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otago.ac.nz\/library\/locations\/#central\">Central Library<\/a> Conference Room 3 (1st floor East end, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otago.ac.nz\/library\/pdf\/central_floorplan.pdf\">floorplan<\/a>)<br \/>\nOnline: join virtually via <a href=\"https:\/\/connect.otago.ac.nz\/copyright\/\">Connect<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are governments, funders and institutions around the world mandating or encouraging Open Access? What does it mean for my discipline? My department? Me, as an individual researcher or teacher? Our opening event for OA Week offers an introduction to OA, its demonstrable benefits to the scholarly pursuit and the challenges it presents. This session [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10559,30973,10560,10564,10572,10557,10576],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-creative-commons","tag-oaweek","tag-open-access","tag-open-data","tag-open-educational-resources","tag-open-publishing","tag-open-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}