University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries Open Access Week Presentations

[Marianne Buehler]

If you are in the neighborhood, stop by for a presentation and say hello!

--Showcase Your Scholarship on a Global Scale–focus on the open access advantage to research and deposit in Digital Scholarship@UNLV.


--Open Access Textbooks: Why and How? Key features of open access textbooks offer UNLV faculty strategies to take advantage of these personalized, sustainable, and cost-saving options.


--Predatory Research Practices, Beware! Learn about the questionable scholarly, open-access publishers and their impact factors.

--Shift Your Journal from Paper or Create Anew–Dr. Porter Troutman will discuss his experiences in moving his paper journal to an open access model and why.

[Ron Mader]

Two questions: what percentage of faculty and students are able to edit a wiki? Are there local examples of open access in practice?