- Monday 19 October 2009
- Tuesday 20 October 2009
- Copyright: Retaining and Sharing Rights to Your Scholarship
- Wednesday 21 October 2009
- Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Practical Information for Students
- Thursday 22 October 2009
- How to Assess Your Research Impact
Monday 19 October 2009
Locks and Gears: Digital Repositories and the Digital Commons
Speaker:John Wilbanks, VP of Science, Creative Commons
Time:12:00pm to 2:30pm
Location:Robarts Library (130 St. George Street), Room 4049
In Locks and Gears: Digital Repositories and the Digital Commons, Wilbanks discusses research libraries’ role in scholarly communication, their roles in the emerging digital commons/repository infrastructure, sustainability of those roles, and other issues concerning the challenges of improving the dissemination and preservation of research outputs and tapping into the full potential the World Wide Web to successfully arrive at a more dynamic and open scholarly communication system.
As VP of Science, John Wilbanks runs the Science Commons project at Creative Commons. He came to Creative Commons from a Fellowship at the World Wide Web Consortium in Semantic Web for Life Sciences. Previously, he founded and led to acquisition Incellico, a bioinformatics company that built semantic graph networks for use in pharmaceutical research and development. Previously, John was the first Assistant Director at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School and also worked in US politics as a legislative aide to U.S. Representative Fortney (Pete) Stark. John holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Tulane University and studied modern letters at the Universite de Paris IV (La Sorbonne). He is a research affiliate at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the project on Mathematics and Computation. John also serves on the Advisory Boards of the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central, the Open Knowledge Foundation, the Open Knowledge Definition, and the International Advisory Board of the Prix Ars Electronica’s Digital Communities awards. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Fedora Commons digital repository organization.
This webcast is sponsored by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries. Please feel free to attend from your workstation or join the group viewing in Room 4049 at Robarts Library.
Watch the pre-recorded webcast of Locks and Gears: Digital Repositories and the Digital Commons
Innovative Projects in the Publishing of Open Educational Resources
Speaker:Stian Håklev, M.A. Candidate, OISE
Time:12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location:Knowledge Innovation Technology Lab (KITL) 3rd floor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
In Norway, the provincial governments allocate a percentage of the funds for purchasing textbooks to develop an open curriculum database for high school students. In Indonesia, the government purchases the copyright to several hundred school textbooks and makes them available online, to encourage local printers to make cheap editions. In India, the largest university in the world made all their teaching materials available online. In China, the government runs a large national competition for top level courses, making teaching more prestigious, and simultaneously sharing the results.
Around the world, universities, regions and national governments are developing innovative projects that make educational resources freely available online. This presentation will present a number of case studies, discussing institutional incentives and the potential benefits from open sharing. It will also introduce the Peer2Peer University, a free online collaborative learning platform that forms learning groups around the open educational resources that exist.
Stian Håklev is a second-year MA student in the Higher Education program. He is a co-founder of the Peer2Peer University, a co-chair of OISE's Open Access sub-committee, and has given a number of international talks on the topic of open education.
Event sponsored by the Education Commons, OISE, University of Toronto
Tuesday 20 October 2009
How does Open Access publishing work in practice? The perspectives of 5 established publishers
Panel:Pierre de Villiers - African Online Scientific Information Systems (AOSIS); Matthew Cockerill - BioMed Central (BMC); David Hoole - Nature Publishing Group (NPG); Mark Patterson - Public Library of Science (PLoS); Saskia Franken - Utrecht University Library (Igitur)
Chair:Caroline Sutton, President, Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)
Time:12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location:2nd floor conference rm., Library Administration area, Robarts Library
How does Open Access publishing work in practice? Representatives of 5 very different publishers discuss the promise and perils of open access publishing. Following short presentations by each of the panelists, webinar attendees will be able to pose questions live to our panel of Open Access journal publishers.
Sponsor: Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
Please join us for a group viewing. To view from your desktop, emailinfo@oaspa.orgwith the subject line: OASPA Webinar. Attendance is free, but advance registration is required as the number of participants is limited.
Copyright: Retaining and Sharing Rights to Your Scholarship
Speaker:Professor Samuel Trosow, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario
Time:3:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:Gerstein Science Information Centre (9 King’s College Circle), Alice Moulton Room (2nd Floor)
This program will assist faculty, librarians and students in retaining copyright ownership in the articles they publish in journals. By transferring their copyright to publishers, authors can lose control of their own work and may be subject to restrictions in its future use.
In order to publish an article, a journal only needs to obtain permission from the author. Yet, they typically ask for much more, the assignment of the full copyright interest. The Copyright Act gives several rights to the creators of artistic, dramatic, musical and literary works (including journal articles). These rights are transferable and are often assigned to publishers. In addition to the problems these transfers may create for owners, libraries find their limited budgets increasingly challenged by the high costs of serial subscriptions.
Professor Samuel Trosow will provide a brief overview of the Canadian Copyright Act and then focus on the rules concerning first ownership and transfer of copyright in the academic setting, as well as suggestions for dealing with publishers. Given the emergence of various open access options in the digital environment, students, faculty and librarians need to better understand these issues. To promote scholarly communication, autonomy, integrity and academic freedom, and education and research activities more generally, it is important for academic staff to retain copyright in their journal articles.
Professor Trosow is jointly appointed to the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. His academic research focuses on the political economy of information and knowledge: that is to say, where information and knowledge come from, how they circulate and how they intersect with political and social processes. With Professor Laura Murray he co-authored Canadian Copyright: A Citizens Guide (Between the Lines, 2007). In 2007-08 he served as the Visiting Faculty Scholar-in-Residence at the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT).
Co-sponsored with the Graduate Student Union and the School of Graduate Studies.
Wednesday 21 October 2009
Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Practical Information for Students
Speakers:Lisa Fannin & Heather Kelly, School of Graduate Studies; Rea Devakos, University of Toronto Libraries
Time:2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location:Robarts Library (130 St. George Street), Room 4049
All graduate theses and dissertations published at the University of Toronto must now be submitted and distributed electronically. This session will cover the new School of Graduate Studies policy with particular attention to copyright and how tos on developing and submitting your electronic thesis or dissertation (ETD).
Thursday 22 October 2009
Open Access to Research is Coming: What is to be Done?
Speaker:Professor John Willinsky, Stanford University School of Education
Time:12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) Library (252 Bloor Street West), Ground Floor
Each year, a greater proportion of the scholarly literature is being made freely available online (open access), posing new challenges, as well as new opportunities, for the future of learning. This presentation will use the Open Access policy mandates that faculty members have supported at Harvard, Stanford, MIT and Kansas as an example of what is being done and why it matters.
John Willinsky is currently on the faculty of the Stanford School of Education where he teaches courses on knowledge systems, access to knowledge and scholarly communication. He directs the Public Knowledge Project which focuses on extending access to knowledge through online sources such as Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open Conference Systems and Open Monograph Press (OMP). Dr. Willinsky’s research centers on both analyzing and altering scholarly publishing practices to understand whether this body of knowledge might yet become more of a public resource for learning and deliberation. He is the author of Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED and Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire’s End, which won Outstanding Book Awards from the American Educational Research Association and History of Education Society, as well as the more recent titles, Technologies of Knowing, If Only We Knew: Increasing the Public Value of Social Science Research and The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship — the latter of which has won the 2006 Blackwell Scholarship Award and the Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award.
Sponsored by OISE/UT.
How to Assess Your Research Impact
Speaker:Gail Nichol and Rita Vine, Reference Librarians, Gerstein Science Information Centre
Time:2:30pm to 4:00pm
Location:Gerstein Science Information Centre (9 King’s College Circle), Gerstein Training Lab (2nd Floor)
The Library's collection of citation tracking databases now offers impressive new analytical features that can help you understand the impact of your research on the scholarly literature. If you are applying for tenure, promotion, or a new academic or research position, information that quantifies your citation rates can support evidence of your research impact.
This 90-minute session will cover the basics of citation searching in Web of Knowledge and Google Scholar, which cover most disciplines; current algorithms used to determine personal and journal impact factors; using open access repositories to increase the visibility of your research; plus creative alternatives to assess the impact of scholarship not covered in standard published sources. Bring your current CV or a list of your publications.
Registration Required:http://tinyurl.com/l84flm(external link)
Faculty Panel: Open Access in the Disciplines
Panelists:Gage Averill, Vice-Principal Academic and Dean, Ethnomusicology (UTM); Amrita Daniere, Vice-Dean, Graduate; Professor and Chair, Geography (UTM); Ulli Krull, Vice-Principal Research; Professor, Chemistry (UTM); Mary Ann Mavrinac, Chief Librarian, U of T Mississauga; Eyal Reingold, Professor, Psychology (UTM)
Time:2:30pm to 3:30pm
Location:U of T Mississauga (3359 Mississauga Road North), Faculty Club, South Building, Room 3140
Come join a lively panel discussion focused on the impact of Open Access in the disciplines.
Sponsored by the UTM Library.
Enabling Open Scholarship
Speakers:Gale Moore, Senior Fellow, Knowledge Media Design Institute; Leslie Chan, Faculty Member and Advisory Board Member, Knowledge Media Design Institute; Gunther Eysenbach, Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
Time:4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location:Claude Bissell Building (140 St. George Street), Room 728
Gale Moore: The Institutionalization of Openness in Universities
A host of initiatives predicated on the notion of openness has flourished in recent years. From Open Source to Open Access, Open Educational Resources, Open Data or Open Innovation, the phenomenon of openness is transforming the nature of scholarly communication and practices. Increasingly, and to varying degrees in different disciplines, the impact of these activities is observable, yet awareness of these changing practices and the opportunities and consequences for the individual and the institution continue to be unevenly distributed across the institutional landscape. This talk will review recent developments and the opportunities and challenges ahead.
Leslie Chan: Changing Scholarly and Pedagogical Practices in an Open Knowledge Environment
Digital and networking technologies are rapidly transforming the ways in which knowledge is created, consumed and shared. While innovative pedagogy and new forms of scholarship are made possible by open access to scholarly publications, there remain serious institutional, socioeconomic and legal barriers to participation by members of the academic community. In addition, career pathways for scholarly advancement and evaluation are shifting as the digital landscape creates unfamiliar challenges for graduating students, academics and policy makers. So what are the real opportunities presented by Open Access? The goal of this presentation is to prompt debate and dialogue on how we can participate in the design of an open access knowledge environment and to identify elements of the system that need institutional and policy support.
Gunther Eysenbach: The Scholarly Impact of Open Access in Medicine and Biomedical Research
Coffee will be available at 3:30 pm.
http://kmdiat13.utoronto.ca/event/enabling-open-scholarship/