Centrum Cyfrowe and Library of Gdańsk University of Technology will host a FOSTER co-funded workshop — training the trainers session for librarians — on open access (OA) and Open Science.

The workshop will cover the following topics:

• What is OA? Definitions and types of OA.
• OA publishing models. Green and Gold OA. Benefits of publishing in OA for librarians and researchers.
• OA journals and OA repositories (disciplines and institutional) in Poland and in the world.
• Creative Commons licences and elements of copyright.
• Open Educational Resources.

More information about the event and contact details are here.

BACKGROUND

EIFL is a partner in FOSTER, a European Commission funded project that aims to support different stakeholders, especially young researchers, in practicing OA, open data sharing and open science. EIFL leads the training programme. Read more about EIFL’s involvement in the project here and about the projects events in 2015 here.