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Full Slate of Events Scheduled for Open Access Week, Oct. 24-30


October 11, 2011

open access logoEach year, the UO Libraries joins the international library community to participate in Open Access Week and call attention to the importance of open access in creating improved access to academic scholarship and research. This year’s Open Access Week is scheduled for October 24-30 and will feature events at campuses throughout the world.

The following events are scheduled at the University of Oregon.

  • Tuesday, October 25, 11 a.m., Knight Library, Reed Seminar Room, Room 235. UO Open Textbook Initiative, with Dev Sinha, associate professor, UO Department of Mathematics.
  • Tuesday, October 25, 4 p.m. Knight Library Browsing Room. Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal Launch and Panel Discussion. Student members of the editorial board will discuss the process of creating a new open access journal and will showcase the work of some of the UO’s most talented undergraduate researchers. For more information, visit http://journals.oregondigital.org/ourj.
  • Wednesday, October 26, 10 a.m. Knight Library Collaboration Center. Opening the Humanities with Social Media. David Wacks, Romance Languages, will discuss his use of social media, including blogging, to make his scholarship available to a broader audience.

  • Thursday, October 27, 2:30 p.m. Knight Library Studio A, or view live at http://live.oregonstate.edu/. Open Access to Research Data: The Next Frontier. MacKenzie Smith, science fellow at Creative Commons, will speak on the implications of the open science movement and the role libraries can play in curating and providing long-term preservation for scientific content. Streamed from Oregon State University.

Our colleagues at Oregon State University have also planned other events for Open Access Week. Visit http://ica.library.oregonstate.edu/subject-guide/851-Open-Access-at-OSU?tab=514316 for the full schedule.

For more information on open access initiatives at the University of Oregon, visit the library’s webpage at http://libweb.uoregon.edu/scis/sc/uoopenaccess.html.


More Open Access Events Available to the UO Community

The Right to Research Coalition will offer a series of live webcasts focusing on critical issues in Open Access during the week of October 24-30. Registration for the webcasts is free and is open to anyone. Click here for registration and more information.

Monday, October 24. 5 p.m PDT. The State of Open Access and the Student Role in Creating Change.
 Heather Joseph, executive director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), will speak on the current state of Open Access and the importance of students in making open the new norm in scholarly publishing.  The webcast will also feature Goldis Chami, a medical student at the University of British Columbia, who will detail her experience leading the charge for a campus open-access policy at her university and give tips on how students can be most effective in advocating for Open Access on campus.

Wednesday, October 26. 9 a.m PDT. Open Access and the Impact of Open on Research.
John Wilbanks, a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation and the former vice president for science at Creative Commons, will discuss Open Access and how open has the power to transform research.  This webcast will also feature Goldis Chami (see above).


Earlier Events

Friday and Saturday, October 14-15, Knight Law Center. Feminist Publishing in the Digital Age: A Symposium. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Architecture and Allied Arts, and the UO Libraries, this symposium will cover topics of interest to the open access community, including peer review and multimodal publishing. Karen Estlund, head of digital library services for the UO Libraries, will participate in the multimodal publishing session. For more information, visit http://csws.uoregon.edu/?p=10039.




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