2011 Open Access Events at UVic
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Open Access, from CARL and McGill U
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries, in partnership with McGill University Library produced a one minute animated video explaining the concept of open access to students and faculty in a simple and fun format. The video is available for free and is licensed under a Creative Commons license.
Open Access 101, from SPARC
An animated video explaining open access to research and why it's important.
Brown Bag Lunch Series in McPherson Library, 12-1pm;
Webcasts at other Canadian institutions
When: Tuesday, October 18, 2011: 12-1pm
Where: Taped Archive (video file)
Topic: Scholarly Editing: Open Access Editions Online (slides at PREZI)
Speaker: Constance Crompton, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory, University of Victoria
Abstract: Online publication challenges our notion of the scholarly edition in a number of ways: the resulting editions require teamwork to produce, can be perpetually updated, and open up new avenues of collaboration with users. Drawing on examples from the Networked Interface for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship (NINES), The Yellow Nineties Online, and the Devonshire Manuscript: A Social Edition, Constance Crompton discusses role of open access online editions in the changing shape of humanities scholarship. See slides below.
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When: Friday, October 21, 2011: 12-1pm
Where: Room 210
Series: Knowledge Mobilization Series: Connecting research with the publication
Topic: Café Scientifique: A Public Seminar Series with a Difference
Speaker: Dr. E. Paul Zehr, Centre for Biomedical Research
Topic: Open Access Publishing at UVic
Speakers: Inba Kehoe + Katy Nelson, UVic Libraries
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When: Monday, October 24, 2011: 12-1pm MDT
Where: Live WebCast - See the technical requirements (Athabasca U)
Topic: Fun and Fear in Open Spaces
Speaker: Prof. Terry Anderson and Dr. Jon Dron
Abstract: This presentation presents the theory and practice of Open Learning as implemented in Athabasca University’s Beyond the LMS social networking system. The presentation discusses the motivation , design and challenges encountered in the first two years of Athabasca Landing (an elgg-based social networking environment). Reference will be made to the disruptive nature of the technology in regard to the limits of openness, resistance to sharing, context-sensitivity, controllability, ownership, responsibility, soft security, distributed design, managing complexity and crossing the formal/informal divide etc.
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When: Monday, October 24, 2011: 12-1pm
Where: Room 210
Topic: Not exactly "Open Sesame"
Speaker: Michael Best, Professor, Emeritus & Editor, Internet Shakespeare Editons
Abstract: One of the great challenges of making quality content available online by open access is not the development of scholarly materials, but the maintenance both of the website and the materials themselves. Academic granting agencies are very good at providing "seed" money to get projects under way, and even to build programming infrastructure. But the assumption is that a website is like a book: publish it and it looks after itself from then on. The reality is very different: web browsers and servers are constantly undergoing upgrades, and one of the great advantages of online scholarship is that it can be kept current as new research becomes available.
We often hear that knowledge wants to be free; but there is no magic genie waiting to provide support; someone has to pay for it somewhere. The Internet Shakespeare Editions has been publishing open access scholarly works since 1996. Our funding has come from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, with generous infrastructure support from the University of Victoria. I will discuss some of the challenges we have faced in developing the site, and will outline our strategies for keeping it current.
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When: Monday, October 24, 2011: 4-5 EDT
Where: Taped Archive (University of Regina)
Topic: Open Access: What is it?
Abstract: Open Access Week, now in its 5th year, is promoting Open Access (OA) as a new norm in scholarship and research. OA means that scholarly research is accessible online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. The University of Regina Library, in association with the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), will host a session with Dr. Alec Couros and Dr. Patrick Lewis (University of Regina, Faculty of Education) who will discuss the issues facing Open Access (OA) such as publishing and the University's involvement. This lecture is in recognition of OA Week 2011.
After the presentations, online attendees will be able to email questions in a live Q & A session.
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When: Monday, October 24, 2011: 8pm EDT
Where: Register for Webcast (co-sponsored by University of British Columbia/SPARC)
Topic: The State of Open Access and the Student Role in Creating Change
Abstract: This Monday webcast will feature Heather Joseph, Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), speaking 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.
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When: Tuesday, October 25, 2011: 12-1pm MDT
Where: Live WebCast - See the technical requirements (Athabasca U)
Topic: Post Secondary Leadership and the OER Movement
Speaker: Dr. Frits Pannekoek, President, Athabasca University
Abstract: "OER provide both opportunity and anxiety to University Administrators. While they see possible savings, at the same time they see new expenditures without accompanying revenues. Little understanding exists by either University administrators or by OER specialists on new economic models. While some studies have been done, there has been little in depth research as to what these new models might be and then how the post secondary system has to restructure itself to create a sustainable OER eco system. This within a post secondary system that has an inflation rate of 6% in a funding model that has allowed approximately 2 to 4% or even negative increases. This discussion will attempt to provide the OER movement with some insights as to alternatives." "OER provide both opportunity and anxiety to University Administrators. While they see possible savings, at the same time they see new expenditures without accompanying revenues. Little understanding exists by either University administrators or by OER specialists on new economic models. While some studies have been done, there has been little in depth research as to what these new models might be and then how the post secondary system has to restructure itself to create a sustainable OER eco system. This within a post secondary system that has an inflation rate of 6% in a funding model that has allowed approximately 2 to 4% or even negative increases. This discussion will attempt to provide the OER movement with some insights as to alternatives."
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When: Tuesday, October 25, 2011: 12-1pm
Where: Room 210
Topic: Narcissus and Echo: Four students’ experiences with eReaders
Speaker: James Nahachewsky, Faculty of Education
Abstract: Much of today’s youth are engaged in an unprecedented experimentation with literacy, learning, and textual formats on an individual and societal levels. Drawn from a qualitative case study of two urban high school classrooms on Vancouver Island, this paper examines the impact of recently introduced eReaders on four students' learning and literacy practices. The students from this study inhabited a world of twitch-speed content connecting to peers, ideas, and information while tailoring their reading contexts to promote a sense of personalized learning. The introduction of, and the students’ use of eReaders had important implications for the types of texts that they privileged both inside and outside the classroom, and how they read print and screen-based content – interrogating it, changing it, and being changed by it.
Topic: E-Books and Online ReadersSpeaker: Michael Lines, Librarian, Law Library
Abstract: According to one recent study, 1 in 6 Americans now owns an ebook reader. Ebooks in the university are becoming more prevalent, and are available to researchers in a variety of formats on a variety of devices. Typically, students and others faced with a lengthy text prefer it in print. Deep engagement with the text is a gold standard of serious study. There are a number of barriers to this experience with online texts, some of which arise from the fact that publishers are still deeply influenced by business models based on the printed text.
In legal education, attempts to teach critical engagement with the print and online text can be successful, and in fact a set of expert reading skills has been identified to enable the efficient comprehension of lengthy legal texts. As online texts mature and develop forms more native to the medium, our measures of literacy will also change. Will these new forms of reading also entail a modification of the deeply engaged critical reading experience?
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When: Wednesday, October 25, 2011: 12-1:20 pm PT
Where: Live Webcast (University of British Columbia/COPPUL)
Topic: What Problems Are We Trying TO Fix? - Chief Scientist, LOCKSS Program, Stanford University
Abstract: Open access is changing the system of research communication. But can it solve the problems that beset the system? What exactly are these problems? Drawing on the discussions at a recent workshop on the “Future of Research Communication”, Dr. Rosenthal looks at the dysfunctions of the system from the viewpoints of participants such as researchers, libraries, publishers, software developers and the general public.
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When: Wednesday, October 26, 2011: 12pm EDT
Where: Register for Webcast (University of British Columbia/SPARC)
Topic: Open Access and the Impact of Open on Research
Abstract: This Wednesday webcast will feature John Wilbanks, a Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation and the former Vice President for Science at Creative Commons, who will discuss Open Access and how open has the power to transform research. This webcast will also feature Goldis Chami who will describe the student role as a catalyst for creating change on campus, using her personal experience at the University of British Columbia.
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When: Wednesday, October 26, 2011: 11-11:55 pm PT
Where: Live Webcast (University of British Columbia/COPPUL)
Topic: OpenMedia and its Push for Internet Openness – What Canadian Citizens Should know. - Reilly Yeo Managing Director, OpenMedia.ca
Abstract: OpenMedia.ca has pushed for and won Internet openness rules in 2009, but has since been forced to fight for enforcement of those rules. Managing Director Reilly Yeo will describe OpenMedia efforts to advance and support an open and innovative communications system in Canada.
OpenMedia.ca is a national, non-partisan, non-profit organization working to advance and support an open and innovative communications system in Canada. OpenMedia.ca provides a united voice at CRTC hearings, facilitates citizen engagement, and works towards the creation of a solid Internet infrastructure. We strive to make media and telecommunications more transparent, with broader and more representative public participation. Our job is to shine a spotlight on key media policy developments, and provide essential tools and information for citizen engagement.
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When: Wednesday, October 26, 2011: 12-1pm MDT
Where: Live WebCast - See the technical requirements (Athabasca U)
Topic: Making Sense of Complexity in Open Information Environments
Speaker: George Siemens, with Athabasca University's Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute (TEKRI)
Abstract: In the pursuit of openness, the cognitive experience of the learners and educators are often overlooked. Open educational resources present fragmented views of topics: a TedTalk video here, an Open Yale lecture there, an OCW lesson plan here, and an open online course there. This fragmentary experience can be taxing for individual learners as they try to make sense of various concepts in order to form a reasonably coherent view of the topic. This presentation will present new research on the sensemaking and wayfinding activities of learners in complex online information environments. Needed skills and strategies of learners will be reviewed. Implications for educational design will also be explored, particularly in the formation of participatory pedagogical models in course development.
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When: Wednesday, October 26, 2011: 12-1pm
Where: Fraser Building, Faculty Workroom, Room 209
Topic: Law Students, Reading Skills, and Coursebooks: Print or E-text?
Speaker: Michael Lines, Law Librarian
Abstract: This informal presentation will include a poster and other information around the question of deep engagement with texts and the format of the texts (print or electronic). The presenter will be available for questions and conversation.
The presentation will:
- Summarize studies that correlate certain reading skills with better grades in first year law students. These are characterized by terms like critical engagement, problematizing, hypothesizing, contextualizing, visualizing.
- Summarize studies that evaluate print and e-text for the ways they facilitate and impede the effective development and use of these reading skills.
- Suggest both print-based and e-text based student workflows that facilitate engagement, and discuss the software available that can support both kinds of workflows.
- Highlight some interesting developments in the delivery of educational materials that might be thought provoking, such as the CALI “casebooks”.
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When: Wednesday, October 26, 2011: 12-1pm
Where: Room 210
Topic: Everything you Ever Wanted to Know about the Ebook purchasing/publishing models in the Library
Speaker: Lisa Petrachenko, Acquisitions and Electronic Resources Librarian for McPherson Library
Abstract: Lisa Petrachenko will be on hand to give and overview of eBook purchasing/publishing models, challenges, benefits and future directions for authors, publishers and libraries with regards to the availability eBook models. Learn firsthand how the library is managing the plethora of eBook platforms, Digital Rights Management (DRM) issues, Demand or Patron Driven Purchase Models (PDA), and user expectations. Come with your questions, comments, and feedback – it should be an interesting session.
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When: Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Where: Taped Archive (U of Regina)
Topic:The Open Access Authors Fund At The University Of Calgary: History and Evaluation
Abstract: Andrew Waller is Licensing and Negotiation Librarian/Open Access Librarian at the University of Calgary. He will discuss his institution's experience with it's Open Access Author's Fund. Q & A about U of Calgary's Open Access Author's Fund.
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When: Wednesday, October 27, 2011
Where: Taped Archive (U of Lethbridge)
Topic: Open Access: What is It and Why Should I Care
Speaker: Andrew Waller, U of Calgary
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When: Thursday, October 27, 2011: 12-1pm MDT
Where: Live WebCast - See the technical requirements (Athabasca U)
Topic: Panel on Moving to Open Educational Resources at Athabasca University
Abstract: Dr. Cindy Ives, Director of the Centre for Learning Design and Development (CLDD) at Athabasca University, discusses recent projects in the CLDD that have focused on open educational resources including initiatives to produce and share open educational resources, to use open resources in course materials, and to find and aggregate open materials for adaptation and inclusion in program development. Design principles underpinning the OER projects will be discussed and examples will be demonstrated.
Dr. Lisa Carter, Interim Director of the Athabasca River Basin Research Institute, Tony Tin, Head of Digital Initiatives and Electronic Resources, and Colin Elliott, Digitization Co-ordinator discuss the Bibliography of the Athabasca River Basin (BARB), which is being developed as an open educational resource to aid in the study and dissemination of research done within the basin. This presentation will focus on the ways in which open educational resources will benefit the BARB project
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When: Thursday, October 27, 2011: 12-1pm
Where: Room 210
Topic: Author Rights – Securing your rights as the author
Speaker: Inba Kehoe
Abstract: Publication agreements often require authors to give up all or many of their intellectual property rights as a condition of publication. This limits your ability as an author to legally distribute or reuse your work. Join us at this session to get an understanding of copyright and using tools such as the SPARC Author Addendum to negotiate with publishers to retain as many of your rights as possible.
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When: Friday, October 28, 2011: 12-1pm MDT
Where: Live WebCast - See the technical requirements (Athabasca U)
Topic: OER's and Sustainable Innovation: Low Cost, Low Risk but High Impact
Abstract: This session will include a description of the UNESCO Chair in OER network including an update on the mandate of the Chair and the developments so far. These include agreement on support for a network of UNESCO Chairs in OER with Chairs on each continent; an international PhD for scholars studying OER and a Knowledge Cloud for OER research resources including a mapping of OER organizations. The OER University initiative will also be described. This is a project to create/assemble/develop pathways for informal learners using OER for assessment and official accreditation of the knowledge they have gained. This includes investigations into Prior Learning and Assessment as well as challenge examinations and other non-traditional forms of evaluating learner achievement.
Prof Rory McGreal is the UNESCO/COL Chair in Open Educational Resources (OER). He is also the Assoc. Vice President of Research at Athabasca University. He is a researcher in OERs and their application. He is also the editor of a bestselling book on educational learning objects and has research interests in mobile learning. Dr. Wayne Mackintosh is the Director of the Open Education Foundation based at Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand, a member of the Board of Directors, and founder of the WikiEducator project. He is an internationally acclaimed advocate and organizer of systems and communities to collaboratively build quality course materials.
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When: Friday, October 28, 2011: 12-1pm
Where: Room 210
Topic: A roundtable discussion for current editors of scholarly journals published at UVic to share publishing experiences: journal configurations, peer review process, layout, copyediting, self-sustaining practices, new features, copyright, marketing, etc.
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When: Friday, October 28, 2011: 1-3pm (MDT)
Where: Live Webcast
Guest Speaker: Rowland Lorimer, Director, Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing at SFU; Panel Discussion
Panelists:
Rowland Lorimer, Director Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing, Simon Fraser University
Karim Dharamsi, Associate Professor and Chair, General Education, Mount Royal University
Peter Elson, Senior Research Associate, Department of Non-Profit Studies, Mount Royal University
Andrew Waller, Open Access Librarian, Centre for Scholarly Communication, Libraries and Cultural Resources University of Calgary
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