The University of British Columbia

Kick-Off Event: Monday, October 19

• 10:00AM-11:00AM
  

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  Live Webcast chat with John Wilbanks, VP of Science at Creative Commons on Digital Repositories and the Digital Commons.
  

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  Presented by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)

  To kick off Open Access Week, CARL is sponsoring a free webcast and Q&A session with John Wilbanks, VP of Science at Creative Commons, on Monday October 19, 2009. The webcast was prerecorded and can be watched immediately before the Q&A session, or earlier. Watch the pre-recorded webcast of Locks and Gears: Digital Repositories and the Digital Commons at http://scienceblogs.com/commonknowledge/2009/05/video_of_talk_online.php.

Day 1 Events: Tuesday, October 20st

• 1:00PM-2:00PM
  Keynote Speaker:
  

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  Dr. Frits Pannekoek, President, Athabasca University

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  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:

  1. A current failure to understand the post secondary value chain and the role of open resources in that chain.
  2. A resulting inability to monetize the "free" flow of IP .
  3. An increasing questioning of the quality of "open" materials.
  4. The cultural imperialism inherent in open materials.
  5. 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
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  Heather Morrison & Devon Greyson

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  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:
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  Lea Starr, Associate University Librarian for Public Services

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  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:
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  Joy Kirchner & Sally Taylor

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  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.

Day 2 Events: Wednesday, October 21st

• 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:
  
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  Hilde Colenbrander, cIRcle Coordinator

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  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:
  
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  Sonja Embree, Associate Director, Undergraduate Research Opportunities

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  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.
  
  

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  Dr. Henry Yu, Professor, Department of History, UBC

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  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:
  
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  Max Read, Communications and Thesis Coordinator, Student Academic Services, Faculty of Graduate Studies, UBC

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  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.
  
  

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  Maged Senbel, Assistant Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning, UBC

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  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:
  
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  Christie Hurrell, Communications & Outreach Manager, Centre for Health & Environment Research, School of Environmental Health, UBC

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  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.
  
  

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  Dr. James McCormack, Professor & Acting Co-Chair, Clinical Pharmacy; Director, Residency Programs, Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC

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  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.
  

Day 3 Events: Thursday, October 22th

• 2:00PM-2:30PM
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  Joy Kirchner, Librarian, Collections, Licenses & Digital Scholarship, UBC

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  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.
  
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  Leanne Coughlin, Managing Editor, BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterley

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  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.
  
  

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  Dr. Margery Fee , Editor, Canadian Literature

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  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.
  
  

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  Dr. Charles Menzies , Editor, New Proposals

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  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
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  Robert Stibravy, Digital Initiative Librarian, University Archives

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• 3:45PM-4:00PM
  Coffee break
  
  
  
• 4:00PM-5:00PM
  UBC Journal Editors Forum - Roundtable discussion - for UBC journal editors only:
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  Dr. Iain Taylor, Moderator

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• 5:00PM
  A Reception for journal editors will follow at 5:00PM