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- 1:00PM-2:00PM
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Frits Pannekoek, President, Athabasca University
Dr. Pannekoek will speak on Open Access, Open Source, and Open Educational Resources and how they are touted around the globe by radical and increasingly not so radical thinkers as the solutions to ensure that more than the current 10% of the world’s two billion teenagers get access to post secondary learning. There are currently only 150 million or so post secondary places in the world. To achieve a 40% penetration rate, we need to more than triple the capacity of the current system. It is simply not possible without the massification of learning that the open source and resource movement offers.
The presentation will describe some of Dr. Pannekoek’s personal experiences in and observations of the Open Access movement whether as Director of Information Resources at the University of Calgary, as President of Athabasca University or as President of the International Council of Distance Education, a UNESCO affiliated advisory agency funded by Norway. Included in the discussion will be an examination of the challenges facing the “open” movement in its attempt to lead the massification of quality life long and post secondary learning. These include:
- A current failure to understand the post secondary value chain and the role of open resources in that chain.
- A resulting inability to monetize the "free" flow of IP .
- An increasing questioning of the quality of "open" materials.
- The cultural imperialism inherent in open materials.
- An increase in the rise of resistance to the "open" movement through international restrictions in trade and copyright laws.
- 2:00PM-3:00PM
University Supports for Open Access: A Canadian National Study
Speakers:
Heather Morrison & Devon Greyson
What are Canadian Universities doing to support their researchers who are required to make their research outputs openly accessible? Come hear the story of a recent project investigating what University Libraries and Research Administration Offices in Canada are doing to support researchers in making their research OA, and discuss opportunities for libraries, universities, and OA research in the future.
- 3:00PM-3:30PM
Coffee break
- 3:30PM-4:00PM
European Open Access Activities:
Speaker:
Lea Starr, Associate University Librarian for Public Services
Lea visited several key institutions in Europe during a sabbatical leave in 2009. Institutional repository and open access work has been well supported through networks like SURF, DRIVER and SHERPA which are working collaboratively to address common challenges. Lea will describe these initiatives.
- 4:00PM-5:00PM
Copyright and Author Rights Workshop:
Speakers:
Joy Kirchner & Sally Taylor
The speakers will provide an interactive session on author rights and copyright questions that most affect scholarly authors, with a focus on ways to increase the impact of your work with strengthened publisher agreements and better access to the work.
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