Deakin University Library invites you to a free symposium to celebrate international Open Access Week in Australia.

'Open Access: How Open? How Accessible?' features keynote speaker Professor John Houghton, who will present his latest research, and a panel of experts who will discuss what open access means for researchers, academics, publishers and librarians.

Speakers:

* Professor John Houghton: Economic Impacts of Open Access: Implications from studies in Europe and the United States.
Professorial Fellow, Victoria University's Centre for Strategic Economic Studies (CSES) and Director of the Centre's Information Technologies and the Information Economy Program.

* John Lamp: Where is Open Access in the ARC's ERA?
Senior Lecturer, School of Information Systems, Deakin University

* James Mercer: Open Access: An Academic Publisher's Perspective
Licensing Manager Oceania, Springer

RSVP by Monday 11 October 2010
Valerie Lestrange
Deakin University Library
Email: uni-librarian@deakin.edu.au