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Are you participating in OAWeek 2021? (You can update this later): Yes--definitely!

First name: Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing

Last name: University Library System

Organization/institution name: University of Pittsburgh

Type of institution: Academic Institution

What's your position?: Librarian, Publisher, Technologist

What's the level of OA awareness where you are?: High

What are your goals for OA Week?: *Increase knowledge of innovative peer review operations.
*Promote faculty involvement in OA activities on campus.
*Include faculty and researchers who are doing OA-related activities in our yearly celebration.
*Involve more students.

How did you hear of the OA Week site?: We have been participating in OA Week since its inception.

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Better Together: Partnerships to Bring Open Access Week Events to the Disciplines

by Lauren B. Collister and Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh

Introduction:

For Open Access Week 2017, the University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh took a new approach for scheduling events built on outreach work done in prior years. The library, instead of hosting an event for OA Week all on our own, partnered with several departments to co-sponsor a talk of broad interest that wove in Open Access as a…

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Posted on May 31, 2018 at 6:00am

Open Access 2012: Greater Impact for Your Research

Upcoming Events

Mendeley: Social Networking for Your Research

Monday, October 22, 12 noon to 1 pm

Ballroom, William Pitt Union

Mendeley is an academic social network and citation manager that helps scholars organize research, collaborate online, and discover the latest research. With Mendeley, faculty and students can create citations and bibliographies, read and annotate papers, and make…

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Posted on September 21, 2012 at 6:08am