Posts Tagged: open access

Open Access Night at Kennisland

By Kelly Mostert, November 9, 2018

On November 2 Kennisland organised a networking event in their “Out of Office” format on open access. A screening of the documentary Paywall: The Business of Scholarship took place which focuses on the current state of Open Access publishing and showcases some fierce proponents of open publishing. One of the highlights in the documentary are [...]

Death Knell for Open Politics

By morgancurrie, November 14, 2010

Open source, open government, open culture – as Nate Tkacz, PhD at the University of Melbourne points out in his talk, the ubiquity of ‘openness’ as a master category of politics in network cultures turns into a multidimensional, and even more into a political term in the debate on the free and open. With referring [...]

“Our common mission” – Charlotte Hess as keynote speaker

By morgancurrie, November 14, 2010

What is scholarly communication? Should higher education be considered a public good? How will we be able to structure the zettabytes of the digital universe? What is the trend in open access and public depositing? Scholar Charlotte Hess addresses her main concerns regarding digital commons, and knowledge commons in particular. As an Associate Dean for [...]

Eelco Ferwerda Talks About Open Access in Academic Publishing

By morgancurrie, November 13, 2010

by Catalina Iorga Eelco Ferwerda, the president of the recently established Association of European University Presses, has been involved in electronic publishing since 1995. Ferwerda is also the Project Manager of OAPEN and leads the work on its Open Access Publication model. He received the Dutch SURFshare Open Access award in recognition of his work [...]