The Robertson Library invites you to recognize and celebrate International Open Access Week during the week of October 22 - 28, 2018 on the UPEI campus. The theme for 2018 is “designing equitable foundations for open knowledge,” which reflects the need for all stakeholders in designing new, open systems to ensure that they are inclusive, equitable, and truly serve the needs of a diverse global community. Events include:
- True Cost of Research Exhibit, October 22 - 26, Lobby of Robertson Library
- The exhibit will illustrate the True Cost of Research by investigating the cost of the cited references (70) in a published article authored by a UPEI faculty member. Seventy articles will be posted, along with the cost for university access for all UPEI students, faculty, and staff. The total is over $100,000!
- Data from this exhibit is available at https://library.upei.ca/openaccess.
- Screening of the movie Paywall: The Business of Scholarship, Friday, October 26th, noon - 1:30 pm, Robertson Library Rm 265 (LINC)
- Bring your lunch and enjoy free dessert (cake)! Bottled water will also be provided. A discussion of the movie will follow as time allows.
- From the movie’s website: Paywall: The Business of Scholarship is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science, questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher Elsevier and looks at how that profit margin is often greater than some of the most profitable tech companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google.