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2011 Open (Access Week) Idea Swap - October 3

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Permalink Reply by Mel DeSart on October 3, 2011 at 1:38pm

Part of the reason for that is because UW is on quarters, not semesters, so our students just started classes last week. That timing makes it a bit more difficult to get info disseminated to our university community prior to the start of OA Week. So we're stretching out the time available for people to see the exhibit and putting in an area where people will almost stumble into it.

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Permalink Reply by Nick Shockey on October 3, 2011 at 1:31pm

Really excited to hear about people's reactions to the Sticker Shock idea. It sounds a lot like the Overprice Tags students put on journals at MIT in 2007.

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Permalink Reply by Mel DeSart on October 3, 2011 at 1:36pm

Yes, very similar. A Health Sciences library, I think at Maryland, did something along those same lines a few years ago.

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Permalink Reply by Kimalee Phillip on October 3, 2011 at 1:37pm

I really love the Sticker Shock idea! It was discussed at our Steering Committee meeting. Will definitely distribute it to our members.

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Permalink Reply by Graham Steel on October 3, 2011 at 1:43pm

Really like the idea of this....

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Permalink Reply by Nick Shockey on October 3, 2011 at 1:48pm

Also, our Open Access 101 video uses that same sticker shock idea. Check it out here: http://vimeo.com/13686591.

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Permalink Reply by Sue Kriegsman on October 3, 2011 at 1:32pm

Harvard has had the same problem getting people (faculty) to attend events. Last year we invited people to a "faculty recognition" event where we highlighted about 50 faculty who deposited in our OA repository. The event was held at the campus pub and got some good attention. We are going to do this again this year. No speakers or presenters, just an informal gathering.

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Permalink Reply by Allyson Mower on October 3, 2011 at 1:39pm

You have a campus pub?! We are so missing out here at Utah...we have to go all the way downtown :) I like the informal gathering idea a lot.

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Permalink Reply by Mel DeSart on October 3, 2011 at 1:47pm

Hi Sue, I think we had 45 at one event (of four) last year, but that was because a library school faculty member brought his class to that particular session. 20-25 attendees was more the norm at each session over the last three years.

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Permalink Reply by Nicola Yeeles on October 3, 2011 at 1:53pm

Mel - what you say here really rings true for me in terms of getting buy-in from the media. What you have planned for this year sounds really engaging - good luck!

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Permalink Reply by Mel DeSart on October 3, 2011 at 1:56pm

Thanks Nicola. All we knew was that what we had been doing DIDN'T seem to working very well, so we took a Monty Python approach of "And now for something completely different" this year.

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Permalink Reply by Hillary Corbett on October 3, 2011 at 1:28pm

Speaking of "sticker shock," I'd like to bring up the fact that the shipping costs for the OA Week materials I wanted to order from SPARC came to twice as much what the actual cost of the materials are! (And thus made them unaffordable on my budget.) I'd really advocate strongly for different shipping costs for smaller, less expensive materials like stickers.