As part of the 8th International Open Access Week, we invite you to a celebration of Open Access at City University London.

The event consists of an informal, friendly panel discussion presenting progressive voices from the humanities and the sciences advocating for open access and explaining why it matters. This will also be a satellite event launching the Open Access Button.

Confirmed Speakers:

• Anne-Marie Ainsworth, journals manager, Ubiquity Press
• Caroline Edwards, Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature, Birkbeck College; Director of the Open Library of Humanities; editor of Alluvium journal
• Stuart Lawson, librarian and Research Analyst at Jisc Collections.
• Joseph McArthur, Open Access Button Co-Lead and Assistant Director of Right to Research
• Ernesto Priego, Lecturer in Library Science, City University London; editor-in-chief, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
• Jon Tennant, PhD student, Imperial College London

• Featuring a live music set by indie/pop singer-songwriter Paddy Johnston (University of Sussex).

Chair:

• Lyn Robinson, Reader in Library & Information Science, Centre for Information Science, City University London

Hashtags: #oanowcity, #oaweek2014

This event is free but requires registration.