Join the Frohring Library in celebrating 2020 International Open Access Week in October!
The theme this year is ‘Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion’.
October 19 - 25, 2020
According to the 2020 Open Access Week Advisory Committee, “Openness can be a powerful tool for building more equitable systems of sharing knowledge. Rebuilding research and scholarship to be open by default presents a unique opportunity to construct a foundation that is fundamentally more equitable. Yet today, structural racism, discrimination, and exclusion are present and persistent in places where openness is a core value. As a global community, it is important to understand that the systems and spaces of the present are often built upon legacies of historic injustice and that addressing these inequities is a necessity.”
ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) offers a free webcast celebrating Open Access Week. Tune in on Wednesday, October 21, at 1:00 pm CT, for “Celebrating Open Access Week: Building Structural Equity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications.”