Open Access Week 2011: Events Listing

Open Access Week in the News U of T Scarborough Events U of T Mississauga Events

Slides and/or webcast recordings are now available for the following events:

Stian Haklev: What Can Scholarly Communication Learn from Open Source? Publish Early, Publish Often!
Dr. Chad Gaffield: Open Scholarship in the Digital Era

Monday, October 24

New Directions in Scholarly Communication

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm (webinar)

Gerstein Science Information Centre | 9 King's College Circle | Alice Moulton Room

John Wilbanks, Vice President of Science, Creative Commons

Heather Piwowar, Postdoc Researcher, NESCent (DataONE cyberinfrastructure project and the Dryad Digital Repository)

Molly Keener, Scholarly Communication Librarian, Wake Forest University

The speakers will address what librarians and other information professionals should understand about the changing nature of publishing. They will address how librarians and information professionals can better communicate with our patrons and researchers concerning many of the issues.

Tuesday, October 25

The Case for Open Data: Why You Should Care

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Map & Data Library | 5^th Floor | Robarts Library

Gina Porcarelli, Keith Mcdonald, and Trish Garner, City of Toronto

Jury Konga, Principal, eGovFutures Group

Tracey Lauriault, PhD student, Carleton University and co-founder of CivicAccces.ca (Citizens for Open Access to Civic Information and Data)

Open data are freely available datasets provided by government for the world to use. The open data movement has gained so much popularity and momentum in the last few years that most governments around the globe are either making datasets available for free to the public or are under pressure by groups to do so. This session will introduce you to different types of open data initiatives and the types of data they contain. You will learn about governments' perspectives and experience with opening their data. Discussion will also touch upon the licensing and the copyright of Open Data as well as the culture associated with the open data movement. A discussion on the future of Open Data will also be included.

No registration required.

Opening the Digital Humanities

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Dean’s Lounge | 262NB | U of T Mississauga

Open access to new tools, collections and information is having a significant impact on the direction and speed of progress in the Digital Humanities. Join us for this free lunch-time event and learn about the work of researchers in this quickly evolving field.

Meeting the 'High-Throughput' Challenge

William J. Turkel, Associate Professor of History, University of Western Ontario, Director of Digital Infrastructure for NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment

As a result of exponential increases in computing power, electronic storage density, numbers of networked devices and digital representations, humanists now face the challenge of making sense of collections of sources that cannot be visualized or understood without computation. William will describe a range of techniques that allow researchers to keep up-to-date with new information, to collect and automatically process millions of sources, and to discover new patterns that require interpretation. Although some of these techniques require programming ability, many can be undertaken with freely-available or commercial software packages.

Digital Research

Jonathan Bengtson, Director of Library and Archives & Fellow, University of St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto & Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

Mass digitization is providing the raw data for new avenues of analysis and research in the humanities and there is a blurring of methodologies between and across disciplines in the humanities, sciences and social sciences. Digital research environments are being designed that will result in the academic monograph morphing into an organic, ever changing digital object. The potential of, and the implications for, the humanities are immense.

Registration for complementary lunch: http://library.utm.utoronto.ca/openaccessweek2011

Sponsored by the U of T Mississauga Library

Wednesday, October 26

Open Access and Student Scholarship: From Local to International

10:00 am – 11:30 am

An Open Access Week event for U of T Scarborough student researchers

Council Chamber | Room AA160 | U of T Scarborough

Engaging with Canadian Scholarship through Open Access

Rebecca Schild, Undergraduate student researcher, Department of Social Science, U of T Scarborough

Open Access: A Perspective from the Developing World

Abigail Speller, Project Assistant, Bioline International, Department of Social Sciences, U of T Scarborough

Session Coordinator: Sarah Forbes, Scholarly Communication Library, U of T Scarborough

Refreshments will be provided.

Open Scholarship in the Digital Era

Dr. Chad Gaffield, President, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

@ OISE Library - Space is limited. Register at http://uoft.me/register if you plan to attend.

OISE Library | 252 Bloor Street West | Ground Floor

@ U of T Mississauga - Join us for a group screening, followed by a Q&A and discussion. Bring your lunch. Light refreshments will be provided.

Research Office Conference Room | Room 332 | Terrence Donnelly Health Sciences Complex | U of T Mississauga

During the past two decades, the word “open” has proven to describe a complex concept with challenging and inspiring implications for individuals, institutions and jurisdictions. New expressions such as ”open access” have now been joined by new words such as “copyfight” in a multi-dimensional and multi-layered discussion around appropriate policies and practices on campus and beyond. This presentation will reflect on the deep conceptual changes that are driving this discussion as well as examine some of the promising steps forward taken in recent years.

Co-sponsored by U of T Mississauga Library and Research Office

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Digital Scholarship and Teaching

12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Council Chamber | Room AA160 | U of T Scarborough

Michael Gervers, Professor, Department of Humanities, U of T Scarborough

Paulina Rousseau, Digital Scholarship Librarian, U of T Scarborough

Sarah Forbes, Scholarly Communication Librarian, U of T Scarborough

The mission of the UTSC Library’s Digital Scholarship unit (DSU) is to create, preserve and provide access to digital collections that will inspire and facilitate research and knowledge creation for the purposes of teaching and learning. It is the DSU’s goal that digital collections will be accessible as a public good, be sustainable, provide for interoperability, facilitate collaborations amongst scholars at U of T Scarborough and beyond, and support experimentation. Dr. Michael Gervers will speak about how his experience collaborating with the DSU in the context of the Gunda Gunde Manuscripts and DEEDS projects. Emphasis will be placed on how these collections will be used for the purposes of teaching and research. Following Dr. Gervers, Paulina Rousseau and Sarah Forbes will speak in greater detail about the UTSC Library’s Digital Scholarship Unit.

Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to ctl-events@utsc.utoronto.ca.

Part of the U of T Scarborough Centre for Teaching and Learning’s Nutrition for Educators Series

Open Science and Medicine

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Gerstein Science Information Centre | Gerstein Instruction Lab

Policy Initiatives to Enhance the ‘Openness’ of Science: Canada, the US and the UK

Helen Lasthiotakis, PhD Student, Theory and Policy Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Open science and its related concepts have gained considerable policy momentum, particularly in UK and US research funding agencies. Helen Lasthiotakis will examine how research funding agencies promote open science in these countries as well as in Canada. She will explore a variety of policy initiatives including the development of shared tools with open source/open standards; the availability of research data through data sharing and management policies; and the dissemination of research results.

Sharing Curriculum Resources in Medical Education

Warren Luksun and Azad Mashari, Senior Residents, Department of Anesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

While open access has a substantial and growing presence in medical publishing there is as yet very little penetration in medical education and most academic physicians are unfamiliar with it. Major obstacles include common misconceptions about copyright and open access and implications for academic publishing and promotion. Azad Mashari and Warren Luksun will discuss their project to share medical education and curriculum resources on Point of Care Ultrasound under creative commons licenses.

On the Lack of Consensus over the Meaning of Openness: An Empirical Study

Alicia Grubb, PhD Student, Software Engineering Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

This study set out to explore the views and motivations of those involved in a number of recent and current advocacy efforts (such as open science, computational provenance, and reproducible research) aimed at making science and scientific artifacts accessible to a wider audience. Alicia Grubb will examine the divergent goals and approaches adopted by different advocacy efforts and suggests that the scientific community could benefit from a broader discussion of what it means to make scientific research more accessible and how this might best be achieved.

Thursday, October 27

Open Access and the Scholarship of Engagement

9:30 am -11:30 am

Council Chamber | Room AA160 | U of T Scarborough

Join us for a panel presentation and discussion of UTSC initiatives that engage public participation.

Christine Berkowitz, Lecture in History, Department of Humanities, UTSC - History Engine Project

Sarah Loose, Graduate student, Department of Humanities, UTSC – ePorte Project

Frances Garrett, Associate Professor, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto - Digital Scholarship (DISC) Project

Moderator: Leslie Chan, Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, UTSC

Among the many new opportunities that Open Access made possible are new forms of scholarly engagement, including ways of interacting with the public, students, and peers. These new forms of engagement are changing traditional forms of research and teaching, which were often separated, into more dynamic forms of knowledge co-creation that integrate research and teaching in a more open and participatory process. This session brings together practitioners of new forms of scholarship in the open knowledge environment to discuss shared interests and opportunities for collaboration.

Refreshments will be provided.

Sponsored by the U of T Scarborough Library

Open Minds Open Performances - Networks of Empowerment Generating Knowledge, Skill, and Mentorship in Alternative Open Access Projects

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

OISE Library | 252 Bloor Street West | Ground Floor

Professor Antje Budde, Comparative Literature and Drama, University of Toronto

Professor Tara Goldstein, Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE, University of Toronto

In this presentation, Professors Antje Budde and Tara Goldstein introduce several open access projects they have undertaken with undergraduate students in an attempt to provide them with opportunities to develop skills and portfolios they can use to develop a professional, artistic and/or writing life after university.

Opening Access to Data: New Initiatives and the Challenges of Data Management

1:00 pm -3:00 pm

Ante Chamber | 3129DV | U of T Mississauga

Join us for a panel presentation and discussion of new initiatives and challenges associated with opening access to national, regional, municipal and research data.

Steve Czajka, OLS, OLIP, Supervisor, Information Planning, City of Mississauga Planning and Building Department, Policy Planning Division

Ron Jaros, MES, MCIP, RPP, OLS, OLIP, Planning Manager, Information and Intelligence Team, Region of Peel

Diane Carley, Digital Initiatives Analyst, Project Manager - DataCite Canada, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information

Andrew Nicholson, GIS and Data Librarian U of T Mississauga Library

Berenica Vejvoda, Data Librarian, Data Liberation Initiative Representative, Map & Data Library, University of Toronto Libraries

Welcoming remarks: Ulrich Krull, Vice-Principal, Research; Mary Ann Mavrinac, Chief Librarian, U of T Mississauga

Co-sponsored by U of T Mississauga Library and Research Office

What Can Scholarly Communication Learn from Open Source? Publish Early, Publish Often!

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Faculty of Information iSchool | 140 St. George Street

Stian Haklev, BA (U of T), MA (OISE U of T), PhD student (OISE U of T)

What can we learn from the open source development process? This presentation will focus on attempts to share the process of research, and the raw materials and notes, with a special focus on a framework for integrating citation management, notes management and a wiki.

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