​To celebrate Open Access Week (Oct. 20–24), the Regents libraries are co-hosting Juan Pablo Alperin, scientific director of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), associate professor in the Publishing Program, and the co-director of the Scholarly Communications Lab (ScholCommLab) at Simon Fraser University.

Alperin will discuss how the proliferation of open access journals, led by scholars and published out of universities from around the world, are challenging publishing models, reshaping access to knowledge, and redefining the global landscape of scholarly communication.

Among other things, he will draw on work from these two papers:

* Recalibrating the scope of scholarly publishing: A modest step in a vast decolonization process

* Scholarly publishing's hidden diversity: How exclusive databases sustain the oligopoly of academic publishers

Join us on Oct. 20 at noon CDT by registering here:

https://uiowa.zoom.us/meeting/register/FTdY4Hb2SXu65m9vZZ7MZA