Publication Pandemonium
An Asynchronous Online Quiz Competition for Open Access Week
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https://doi.org/10.18060/29028Keywords:
open access, asynchronous, programming, competition, scholarly communicationsAbstract
Open Access Week is an international event focused on issues of equity within the scholarly publishing system. At the University of North Dakota library, we see a diverse range of attitudes towards OA. To build OA support and combat misinformation, we designed an OA week quiz competition, “Publication Pandemonium”, with an asynchronous format designed to include our clinical sites. This event was an overwhelming success despite a short turnaround, with impressive turnout never before seen in our library programming.
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