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| Hilde Colenbrander, cIRcle Co-ordinator | ||
| Hilde Colenbrander is 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. | ||
| Leanne Coughlin, Managing Editor, BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterley | ||
| Leanne Coughlin is the Managing Editor of BC Studies, an interdisciplinary humanities journal that has been published at UBC since 1969. Leanne joined BC Studies after completing a Master of Fine Arts degree at UBC in 2005. |
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| Sonja Embree, Associate Director, Undergraduate Research Opportunities | ||
| Sonja Embree 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. Margery Fee | ||
| Dr. Margery Fee has a PhD from the University of Toronto and teaches Aboriginal, Canadian, and postcolonial literatures in the Department of English at UBC. She is Editor of Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, an Associate Editor of the Dictionary of Canadian English on Historical Principles (2nd online edition), and the Dean’s Advisor on Aboriginal Initiatives in Arts. She has held a variety of Directorship positions at UBC which include Director of Canadian Studies, Director of Arts One, Director of Intercultural and Community Programs, and Director of the African Studies Minor. | ||
| Devon Greyson | ||
| Devon Greyson is the Information Specialist for the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, a faculty member in the women’s studies program at Capilano University, and adjunct faculty with UBC’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies. An active member of the BC Library Association's Information Policy Committee, Devon is the current President of the Health Libraries Association of BC, and writes for the Social Justice Librarian blog. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Joy Kirchner | ||
| Joy Kirchner is the librarian for Collections, Licenses and Digital Scholarship at the University of British Columbia. Her role involves coordinating scholarly communications activities for the Library. Joy chairs the university’s Scholarly Communications Steering Committee., she is a faculty member with ACRL/ARL Institute for Scholarly Communication, she developed programs and teaches in the ACRL Scholarly Communication 101 outreach program and she is a committee member of the ACRL Scholarly Communications Committee. Joy writes and lectures widely on a variety of scholarly communications topics. | ||
| Dr. James McCormack | ||
| Dr. James McCormack received his undergraduate pharmacy degree at the University of British Columbia in 1982 and completed a hospital pharmacy residency program at Lion’s Gate Hospital in North Vancouver in 1984. He received his doctorate in pharmacy (Pharm.D.) in 1986 from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina. He has had extensive experience, both locally and internationally, talking to health professionals and consumers about the rational use of medication, has presented over 300 seminars on drug therapy over the last 15 years. His focus is shared-informed decision-making using evidence based information and rational therapeutic principles. In addition, he has published over 100 articles in the medical literature, mainly in the area of rational drug therapy and has been an editor for two internationally recognized textbooks on appropriate/rational drug therapy. | ||
| Dr. Charles Menzies | ||
| Dr. Charles Menzies’ primary research interests are the production of anthropological films, natural resource management (primarily fisheries related), political economy, contemporary First Nations' issues, and maritime anthropology. Charles has been involved in a number of innovative projects which include founding and directing the Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC, authoring a weblog in support of public education, and establishing the open access online journal New Proposals. Charles is also coordinator of an ecological anthropology research group at UBC, Forests and Oceans for the Future. | ||
| Heather Morrison | ||
| Heather Morrison is a Project Coordinator with BC Electronic Library Network and Adjunct Faculty at UBC's School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, where she has developed and teaches courses on scholarly communication and open access. Heather is an Associate Editor of the new OA journal, Scholarly and Research Communication, and member of the governance team of E-LIS, the open archive for library and information studies. Most of Heather's extensive publications and presentations, mostly on scholarly communication and open access, can be found in an open access archive. For Heather's current comments, see her scholarly blog, The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics. Heather is a PhD student at SFU's School of Communication, and an active member of the BC Library Association’s Information Policy Committee. Chandos (2009) just published Heather's book, Scholarly Communication for Librarians. | ||
| Dr. Frits Pannekoek | ||
Dr. Frits Pannekoek became the sixth president of Athabasca University on June 1, 2005. Dr. Pannekoek received his Ph.D. (Queens, 1974) with a dissertation on western Canadian history and Indigenous peoples. Dr. Pannekoek has been the Director of Information Resources at the University of Calgary, with academic appointments in the Faculty of Communications and Culture and the Department of History. As Director of Information Resources, he was responsible for the university library system, its archives, the university press and the Nickle Arts Museum. He has also been the chair of The Alberta Library, a consortium of more than 300 libraries. Dr. Pannekoek has a substantial reputation as a Canadian historian for the contributions he has made over the last 30 years with his academic fields of western Canadian and Métis history, museum and heritage studies, and information and communications studies. Dr. Pannekoek is recognized nationally for his leadership in the creation of digital resources and the transformation of academic publishing. He has been involved in the development of the Information Commons at the University of Calgary, an online resource that supports the integration of innovative technologies into the learning and teaching environment. |
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| Ingrid Parent | ||
Ingrid Parent joined UBC on July 1, 2009 as its 14th University Librarian. Her appointment marks a return to her alma mater, where Ms. Parent earned a BA in Honours History and a library science degree the following year. After graduating, she moved to eastern Canada and held increasingly senior positions, culminating in her role as Assistant Deputy Minister, Library and Archives Canada (LAC). The digital agenda - including the collection of electronic publications and archival records, the provision of new and efficient digital services, and converting information to digital formats - is one of Ms. Parent's top priorities. At LAC, she led the development of the Canadian Digital Information Strategy, a major effort to advance the country's digital agenda. Ms. Parent is recognized nationally and internationally for her outstanding contributions to libraries and the library profession. She is the 2009 winner of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship, and has been actively involved in the governance of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) for the past 14 years. Ms. Parent currently serves as IFLA's president-elect, and assumes the presidency from 2011-2013. Within IFLA, Ms Parent has encouraged library associations around the world to discuss and promote freedom of information. |
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| Max Read | ||
| Max Read is the Communications and Thesis Coordinator, Student Academic Services, Faculty of Graduate Studies at UBC. She was a leader on the Library/Graduate Studies team that initiated a pilot project for submission of ETDs using DSpace software. The project was a success, and in November 2007 electronic submission became available to UBC students.. In all matters relating to ETDs, Max leads Grad Studies in indentifying and assessing problems, negotiating and proposing short and long term solutions, and working with Associate Deans, the Library, UBC Legal Counsel, and students. Max is on the Board of Directors of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Lea Starr | ||
| Lea Starr is the Associate University Librarian for Public Services at the University of British Columbia She has an Honours Biochemistry degree from the University of Alberta and an MLS from the University of Toronto. Prior to her career in librarianship, she worked as lab assistant conducting research and collecting data. Much of Lea's library career has been in the sciences where she has long been aware of the issues of data management. She has strong interest in institutional repositories and has been a project sponsor of the UBC cIRcle project. Lea did a 6 month sabbatical in Europe where she visited libraries in Kiev, Warsaw, Utrecht, Gent, Nottingham, Berlin, Bielefeld and Gottingen. The projects at these institutions are all considered to have contributed to networked IR activities in Europe. |
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| Robert Stibravy | ||
| Robert Stibravy is currently the Digital Initiatives Librarian based at the UBC University Archives. He is responsible for the administration of the UBC Library's Open Journal Systems installation, as well as for a wide range of digital projects including the digitization of a collection of rare Japanese maps of the Tokugawa era, digital preservation initiatives, and many others. He has a degree in biology and has worked in a variety of libraries. | ||
| Dr. Iain Taylor | ||
| Dr. Iain Taylor is a Professor Emeritus of Botany at UBC and the Project Director of the UBC Botanical Gardens. Throughout his career he has been involved in scientific publishing first with the Canadian Journal of Botany and with the journal Cellulose. From 1991-2006, he served as Assistant Editor-in-chief of the NRC of Canada Research Press. In 1996 his research moved from plant physiology and biophysics to ethical issues in science. He is an Associate Member of the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics and his current research interests include professionalism, scholarly publishing and ethical issues arising from new discoveries such as genetically engineered organisms. He currently edits the UBC Botanical Garden Journal, Davidsonia, and serves of the editorial boards of Canadian Pharmacists’ Journal and the BC Journal of Ecosystems and Management. He is a former organizer of the Council of Science Editors Short Course for Journal Editors. Iain teaches and lectures widely on best practices for editorial processes and is founder of the UBC editors network. | ||
| Sally Taylor | ||
| Sally Taylor is a reference librarian at the Woodward Library, and a member of the UBC Library Scholarly Communications Steering Committee. She supports faculty, staff and graduate students in the Biological Sciences, Environmental Health, Fisheries, Forestry, and Land and Food Systems. | ||
| Dr. Henry Yu, Associate Professor, Department of History, UBC | ||
| Dr. 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. | ||
| The University of British Columbia Library Open Access Week Contact: Joy Kirchner |
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