Thanks to everyone who showed up for OA Week 2013 events! We had great discussions about OA issues and hope we sparked some long term interest in OA. A big thanks to everyone who helped make our first OA Week a success. In addition to everyone on the planning group, the following people were instrumental in making our OA events possible:
- Greg Aker
- Geoff Bahre
- David Carlson
- Maria Esteva
- Garin Fons
- Debra Hanken-Kurtz
- Tracie Harrison
- Fred Heath
- Jon Lebkowsky
- Frank Meaker
- Elena Mota
- Elise Nacca
- Stephanie Phillips
- Jason Sick
- Travis Willmann
- Krystal Wyatt-Baxter
- Staff at Fine Arts Library
- Staff at COERLL
- All the cleaning crews at PCL, SAC, and Fine Arts Library
We’d also like to thank The Daily Texan reporters and photographers who did such a great job covering the events: Riley Banks, Lizzie Jespersen, Debbie Garcia, Leslie Zhang and Helen Fernandez.
If you’d like to explore additional information about Open Access, you can start with the following list of resources:
- Open Educational Resources: Past, Present…Future?, presentation by Garin Fons for UT OA Week 2013
- Open Access to Scholarly Literature: Which Side Are You On?, presentation by Jill Cirasella
- SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
- Open Educational Resources Commons (OER Commons)
- Texas Digital Library, open access scholarly publishing tools
- University of Texas Digital Repository, UT online archive
- Predatory Publishers, a presentation by Jeffrey Beall
- Open Access: Six Myths to put to Rest, article by Peter Suber
