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Programme & Objectives

 

 

Target Audience

Professional Service colleagues in a research-related role.  

 

 

Priority will be given to colleagues who are employed by the University if the course reaches capacity.

 

Workshop Overview

This session will introduce you to open access and how it relates to academic publishing. It will give you an overview of the different types of open access and how we support these, considering the routes available, funder and institutional expectations, copyright and rights retention and sources of funding.

 

 

Learning Objectives 

At the end of the workshop participants will be able to: 

 

 

• Understand open access and its benefits

• Be aware of different types of open access publishing

• Understand funder and institutional open access expectations and requirements

• Know about open access-related copyright and licencing

• Have an awareness of the open access publishing options available to researchers at Newcastle University

 

 

 

 

Programme 

The workshop programme is as follows:

 

 

• Welcome and introductions

• Introduction to open access

• Routes to open access

• Overview of copyright and licencing

• Funder and institutional policies

• Open access publishing agreements at Newcastle University

• Our repositories

• Refreshments and Q&A

 

 

 

 

Duration: 2 hours

Facilitator: Heather McKenna and Jack Burns