Open Access Week will be celebrated worldwide October 24 - 31.  This year, Galter Health Sciences Library is joining with Northwestern University Libraries to plan and host multiple events across both the Evanston and Chicago campuses. 

Galter has presented special classes and seminars during OA Week in the past, and we will have a couple of offerings at Galter this year, too.  Additionally, staff and faculty from Northwestern's Chicago campus will be participating in events in Evanston during OA Week.  Of special note is a faculty editors' panel to be held on Thursday, October 27 at 12 Noon in Room M349 of the Tech Institute in Evanston.  This panel will feature the Feinberg School of Medicine's Dorothy Dunlop.  Dr. Dunlop is a Professor in Medicine-Rheumatology, Preventive Medicine and the Institute for Healthcare Studies.  She was selected for this panel because she currently serves as an editor for PLoS Medicine, an Open Access journal, and Arthritis Care & Research, a subscription-based journal.  Joining Dr. Dunlop will be Bill Halpern, John Evans Professor of Physics and former editor of the New Journal of Physics, and Bernard Black, Chabraja Professor of Law and the Kellogg School of Management and Managing Director of the Social Sciences Research Network.

Here is a listing of events at Northwestern for Open Access Week 2011:

Chicago Campus Events

• Monday, October 24, 2011 - NIH Public Access Policy and Publication Management with MyNCBI (class)
  Time: 12 Noon - 1 PM
  Location: Galter Health Sciences Library Learning Resources Center (LRC) Classroom
  Sign up for the class
   
• Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - I Wrote It, But I Don’t Own It? Keeping Your Copyright (interactive information session)
  Time: 12 Noon - 1 PM
  Location: Galter Health Sciences Library Learning Resources Center (LRC) Classroom
  Galter Library Associate Director, Heidi Nickisch Duggan and Head of Education, Stephanie Kerns will present a fun and interactive information session based on research conducted by Heidi on authors' rights, copyright, and Open Access publication awareness among Northwestern faculty.
  (Registration is not necessary for this session)

Evanston Campus Events

• Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - Opening Ceremony for the newly redesigned Seeley G. Mudd Library (formerly Science and Engineering Library)
  Time: 3 - 4:30 PM
  Location: Mudd Library, 2233 Tech Drive
   
• Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - Fifteen Years of First Mondays: Scholars, Readers, and Openly Accessible Research
  Time: 2 - 3:30 PM
  Location: Forum Room, Northwestern University Library
  An Open Access Week lecture by Ed Valauskas, Instructor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University and the founder and current editor-in-chief of First Monday, one of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet. This event will be followed by the opening ceremony for the new Center for Scholarly Communication and Digital Curation, located in room 2699A, Northwestern University Library, from 3:30-5pm.
   
• Thursday, October 27, 2011 - Northwestern Faculty Editors Panel: Do Open Access Journals Measure Up?
  Time: 12 Noon - 1 PM
  Location: Mudd Library Room 231
  An Open Access Week panel discussion with Bernie Black (Northwestern School of Law and Kellogg School of Management, Social Science Research Network), Dorothy Dunlop (Institute for Healthcare Studies and Preventive Medicine, PLoS Medicine and Arthritis Care & Research), and Bill Halperin (John Evans Professor of Physics, former editor of the New Journal of Physics).
   
• Friday, October 28, 2011 - Launch Your Own Journal: A Discussion with Student Editors
  Time: 2 - 3 PM
  Location: Forum Room, Northwestern University Library
  An Open Access Week panel discussion with Northwestern University student editors of open access journals Helicon, TriQuarterly, Northwestern Art Review, and Prompt.

You can also see a listing of these events at the NU Libraries page for Scholarly Communications. 

To find out more about Open Access Week events across the world, check out the OA Week 2011 website.

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