NEWS

OPEN ACCESS MANDATE:

At our last general faculty meeting, the Department of Romance Languages unanimously voted to adopt an Open Access mandate. The mandate directs all faculty to archive Open Access versions of published research in the UO's institutional repository Scholar's Bank.

This means that we make our scholarship available, free of charge for the reader, to anyone with an internet connection. This includes articles published in journals that charge subscriptions but who have allowed self-archiving of postprints for non-commercial purposes.

This is a great step forward in making university research available to readers who might not have access to academic journal subscriptions (high school students and teachers, university researchers and students in the developing world, general public, etc.).

Similar mandates have been adopted by MIT (university-wide, 2009), Harvard (Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of Government, 2008 and 2009), and Stanford (School of Education, 2009), as wel as several other universities in Europe and Asia. UO Romance Languages, however, is the first department in the Humanities in the world to adopt an Open Acccess mandate. This is significant because Open Access has been considered something that is "for the sciences."

Click on the following link to view the complete Open Access Mandate.

Romance Languages Newsletter  

The Romance Languages Department publishes its newsletter in the Spring of every year.

Click on the links to the right view our current and archived newsletters.

The next issue is scheduled for Spring 2010.

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Spanish film maker Félix Viscarret teaches a summer class at UO

 Award winning Spanish film director Félix Viscarret stands with his students in this summer's SPAN 407 Film Making class.

Spanish film director, Félix Viscarret (Bajo las estrellas, 2007) visited the UO this summer to teach a film making class for our department. In Viscarret's class students were introduced to advanced film making techniques. In just three weeks students learned how to organize their creative ideas, how to use a digital camera and editing software effectively, and they were able to produce their own original scripts and short films! Félix uses a combination of English and Spanish to introduce students to such a wide range of materials and to challenge students throughout all the stages of the learning process. 

(www.felixviscarret.com)