| |
- 1:00-1:30PM
Opening Remarks to Open Access Week
Speaker: Ingrid Parent, University Librarian
- 1:30PM-4:30PM
Surfacing UBC Scholarship: Panel Presentation and Discussion
Six speakers from a range of disciplines and backgrounds representing the library, faculty, graduate and undergraduate students will describe open access projects and their implications for public access to UBC scholarship.
1. Open Access/cIRcle Overview:
Speaker:
Hilde Colenbrander, cIRcle Coordinator
Hilde Colenbrander is the Co-ordinator of cIRcle, UBC’s digital archive for research and teaching materials created by the UBC community and its partners. Materials in cIRcle are openly available to anyone on the web, have persistent URLs, and will be preserved for future generations. Materials suitable for cIRcle include faculty and staff research, graduate theses and dissertations, and other outstanding student research, and can include text, data, audio and/or video files.
2. Undergraduate Research:
Speakers:
Sonja Embree, Associate Director, Undergraduate Research Opportunities
Sonja Embree, Associate Director, Undergraduate Research Opportunities, UBC will discuss the promotion and dissemination of undergraduate student research through digital archiving. Sonja oversees various programs and initiatives to get undergraduate students involved in research, including the Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Program and Conference. In collaboration with cIRcle, students in the program are required to attend a workshop on publishing and copyright and deposit their final projects in cIRcle.
Dr. Henry Yu, Professor, Department of History, UBC
Henry Yu, Associate Professor, Department of History, UBC will discuss his work with students in the INSTRCC program and how they use the web to make migration stories and memories easily and openly accessible to the public using tools like YouTube. He will also share other ways in which he works with undergraduate students to make their rigourous and imaginative research available to a wide audience beyond UBC.
3. Graduate Research:
Speakers:
Max Read, Communications and Thesis Coordinator, Student Academic Services, Faculty of Graduate Studies, UBC
Max Read, Communications and Thesis Coordinator, Student Academic Services, Faculty of Graduate Studies, UBC will provide an overview of the development of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) at UBC, plans for the future, general information about the advantages of ETDs, and some examples of ETD successes.
Maged Senbel, Assistant Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning, UBC
Maged Senbel, Assistant Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning, UBC will discuss his work with students and colleagues in the School of Community and Regional Planning to make some of their graduating and course projects openly accessible using cIRcle, UBC’s institutional repository. He’ll also share his motivation for doing this work as well as the response it has been getting internationally.
4. Faculty Research:
Speakers:
Christie Hurrell, Communications & Outreach Manager, Centre for Health & Environment Research, School of Environmental Health, UBC
Christie Hurrell, Executive Director, Centre for Health & Environment Research, School of Environmental Health, UBC. Christie will discuss how CHER supports researchers engaging in practical knowledge translation activities, as well as tools and resources they use to do this kind of work. The Centre for Health and Environment Research (CHER) is a multidisciplinary research unit linking UBC's faculties of medicine, engineering and interdisciplinary studies. CHER aims to bring its research findings to the scientific community, to policy makers, to participants and the general public through the use of relevant, effective, and open access media.
Dr. James McCormack, Professor & Acting Co-Chair, Clinical Pharmacy; Director, Residency Programs, Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC
Dr. James McCormack, Professor & Acting Co-Chair, Clinical Pharmacy; Director, Residency Programs, Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC will discuss the work of the Therapeutics Initiative in disseminating up-to-date and evidence-based information on prescription drug therapy to a broad and international audience.
|
