Date: Tuesday, October 23,2012
Time: 12:10 – 1:00 pm
Location: Palace Road Building P-207, Simmons College
Learn about career opportunities in open access!
Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Over twenty years in the making from a grass-roots effort, it has emerged with a “big tent” of specific career paths, including scholarly communications officer, open access publishing, institutional repository manager, open data curator, and open education facilitator.
Join Professor Robin Peek to learn more about these types of positions and other exciting opportunities including the role of advocate. She will present the results of her research done through the Open Access Tracking Project’s investigation of emerging careers in the field and discuss the knowledge set clusters that have emerged as a pattern across job descriptions. If you are willing to take a risk in a vibrant but rapidly growing area, this may be a career path for you!