Do We Need A Revolution? Open Access and the Future of Scholarship

The current model of scholarly communication is broken. The costs of journals and monographs continues to outpace inflation. As university presses fail, faculty have fewer and fewer venues for their work, and their work reaches fewer readers. Open Access is a model that turns the current system on its head. In this highly interactive session, join a conversation with Peter Suber, one of the leading figures in the Open Access movement, to learn what Open Access is (and isn’t), why it should matter to you, and what we might do about the changes taking place in how scholarship is produced and shared.

Cider and cookies will be served.

You can learn more about Peter Suber’s work at his home page which is at http://bit.ly/petersuber>. His seminal book on Open Access can be found at http://bit.ly/oa-book. Middlebury’s Open Access working group’s website is at http://go.middlebury.edu/openaccess/.