The Scholarly Communications Initiative presents the inaugural event in the Scholarly Publication Speaker Series: Open Access: What it Means for Research, Teaching, and One’s Career, Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 12 noon – 1:30 pm, Accolade Building East – Lecture Hall 001, York University. Lunch is provided.
Speakers Jean-Claude Guédon, Department of Comparative Literature, Université de Montréal and Leslie Chan,Program Supervisor for the Joint Program in New Media Studies and the International Studies, University of Toronto at Scarborough, will explore the open access movement in the scholarly context. The open access movement, which has been is gaining momentum in the past year, challenges traditional models of scholarly publishing and provides opportunities for new forms of evaluation, discourse and discovery. The main goals of open access are to enable and improve the use of research and scholarship in a networked environment.
