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Day 3 Events: Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Program Theme: Journal Publishing
Location: Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia
2:00PM-2:30PM
Speaker: Joy Kirchner, Librarian, Collections, Licenses & Digital Scholarship, UBC
Joy will describe various open access business models journal publishers are employing.
2:30PM-3:30PM
Transitioning to Open Access
A panel of UBC journal editors will share their experiences and insights transitioning their journals to an online open access model.
Speakers: Leanne Coughlin, Managing Editor, BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterley
Leanne will describe the challenges of moving from a print-only journal to an online journal and their thinking around the possibility of becoming an open access journal in the process. At this time, BC Studies uses some aspects of OJS to manage submissions and editing processes.
Dr. Margery Fee , Editor, Canadian Literature
Margery will describe a Canadian editor's perspective on transitioning her journal to an open access model in light of emergent grant funding open access mandates.
Dr. Charles Menzies , Editor, New Proposals
Charles will describe his motivation for creating an open access journal using Open Journal Systems (OJS)..
3:30PM-3:45PM
Demonstration of Open Journal Systems Speaker: Robert Stibravy, Digital Initiative Librarian, University Archives
3:45PM-4:00PM
Coffee break
4:00PM-5:00PM
UBC Journal Editors Forum - Roundtable discussion - for UBC journal editors only: Speaker: Dr. Iain Taylor, Moderator
5:00PM
A Reception for journal editors will follow at 5:00PM
The University of British Columbia Library
Open Access Week
Contact: Joy Kirchner
