Open Access (OA) is a movement seeking to make scholarly research freely available to the widest possible audience.  The goal of OA is to advance knowledge through communication and sharing. Sound familiar?  Open Education and OER have roots in OA. All three share a common philosophy of democratizing access to knowledge through a structured framework which gives individuals flexible rights (e.g. Creative Commons) to use existing knowledge to accelerate new discoveries and innovation in the research lab,  the classroom, and elsewhere.  Learn more about OA by viewing this animation, Open Access Explained!

UH is celebrating Open Access Week, October 24-28th, by hosting a series of events throughout the week. View the complete schedule here.  On Tuesday, October 25th, the Leeward OER Committee is hosting a live viewing of the panel discussion: Copyright, Intellectual Property, Creative Commons & Fair Use via HITS in LC 108B at 10:30 AM.

Topics include:

• Key points to consider when using Open Access materials or creating your own;
• Copyright maximalism in the information age;
• Creative Commons licenses, including examples in our everyday lives; and
• Four factors of the Fair Use doctrine and how to apply them.

Presenters:

Brian Huffman, Electronic Services Librarian and teaches Scholarly Research at William S. Richardson School of Law.

Debora Halbert, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and the author of The State of Copyright, the co-edited Handbook of Intellectual Property.

Billy Meinke, OER Technologist for the UHM Outreach College; formerly at Creative Commons, specializing in education applications of their open licenses.

Peter Shirts, Music & Audiovisual Librarian, Acting Head of Sinclair Library & the Wong Audiovisual Center.

For more info about this panel, contact Junie Hayashi at junie@hawaii.edu