Free Culture @ NYU Hosts FreeCulture.org’s Open Access Day
December 20, 2006 by FredFrom the FreeCulture.org blog:
Freeculture.org will be holding an organization-wide Open Access event in NYC on Jan. 13, 2007 from 12-5pm at NYU, exact location TBA. All chapters are invited and encouraged to attend.
The event will be free and is open to anyone interested in advocating for Open Access and Free Culture on university campuses. There will be food and refreshments and we’re hoping to record the entire session to post online.
As opposed to last year’s Freeculture.org NYC regional summit, this event will be more specific and focused. We’ll be tackling the issue of how to advocate for Open Acces on university campuses. We want to take action and start targeting faculty and professors whose work is publicly (or university funded) but is published in closed journals that charge exorbitant prices to libraries and students. There is an alternative out there and we want to make sure everyone knows about it. Access to Knowledge isn’t just important, it is your right as a student and member of a larger academic community.
The event will be interactive, with presentations from influential professionals working in the Open Access world followed by smaller working groups.
Interested in coming? Just RSVP to oa [at] freeculturenyu.org right now — we’ll have an official list and page set up soon, but we just wanted to get the word so that you could be sure to save the date.
And for those FC @ NYU’ers who will be attending: Free Culture @ Harvard will be coming down and there might be a couple of people who need places to crash. I’ll obviously host one or two of them, but please let me know if you might be willing to put up a fellow copyfighter for a night or two. I’m sure they’ll be willing to buy you a beer or two at Swift’s.