Open Access Week 2009 at the University of Utah
Expanding Reach and Increasing Impact
Open Access Week, October 19-23, 2009, will provide students, staff, faculty and members of the public a chance to explore new ways of disseminating, accessing and re-using the results of scholarly and creative research. In the age of the Web, information is abundant and attention is scarce. The fewer the barriers, the greater the likelihood of gaining readers and citations as well as advancing knowledge. Open Access scholarship is digital, online and free of charge to readers. In many cases, it is free of most copyright and licensing restrictions, and can therefore be re-used in a variety of ways. It is a dissemination strategy that promotes rather than restricts access. Authors and creators can learn how to increase innovation by offering the path of least resistance to their work and gain the attention of readers, viewers and listeners. Administrators can learn ways for the University to raise its profile and impact both funding levels and community engagement. And all scholars can discover means for fostering new growth, advancing their discipline, and attracting new learners to their area of expertise.
Schedule of Events
Recordings available here (Unanticipated technical errors occurred on some of the recordings and, as such, are not listed.)
Monday, October 19
Openness and the Value of Learning: The Intellectual Property Argument
Keynote address by Dr. John Willinsky
11:00 am-12:00 pm, Marriott Library Gould Auditorium
John Willinsky is currently on the faculty of the Stanford School of Education where he teaches courses on knowledge systems, access to knowledge and scholarly communication. He directs the Public Knowledge Project which focuses on extending access to knowledge through online sources such as Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open Conference Systems and Open Monograph Press (OMP). Dr. Willinsky’s research centers on both analyzing and altering scholarly publishing practices to understand whether this body of knowledge might yet become more of a public resource for learning and deliberation. He is the author of Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED, Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire’s End, which won Outstanding Book Awards from the American Educational Research Association and History of Education Society , as well as the more recent titles, Technologies of Knowing, If Only We Knew: Increasing the Public Value of Social Science Research and The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship — the latter of which has won the 2006 Blackwell Scholarship Award and the Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award.
Workshop
Open Journal Systems and Open Monograph Press
presenter: John Willinsky
1:30-3:00 pm, Marriott Library Gould Auditorium
Panel Discussion
Using Open Journal Systems at the University Libraries
panel: Jeanne Le Ber, Nancy Lombardo, Valeri Craigle, Julie Quilter, Stephen Mossbarger, Peter Kraus
moderator: Anne Morrow, Digital Initiatives Librarian
3:30-4:30 pm, Marriott Library Gould Auditorium
Tuesday, October 20
Panel Discussion
Data Curation, Natural Language Processing and Copyright: An Introduction to the Role of Open Access
panel: Hal Daume, Steve Corbato, Michele Ballantyne, Lee Hollaar
moderator: Sarah Bosarge, Head, Advanced Technology Studio
11 am-noon, Marriott Library Gould Auditorium
Wednesday, October 21
Panel Discussion
Open Access and the University: A Lively Discussion about the Future of Scholarship, Journal Publishing, and Competitive Advantage
panel: Tom Parks, Joyce Ogburn, Rick Anderson, Martin Berzins, Mary Youngkin
moderator: Joanne Yaffe, Associate Professor, College of Social Work, University of Utah
12:30 -2 pm, Marriott Library Gould Auditorium
Thursday, October 22
Panel Discussion
Restrictions are Futile: Open Access to Poetry, Fine Arts, Music and Humanities
panel: Katharine Coles, Brent Schneider, Mariam Thalos, Glenda Cotter, Miguel Chuaqui
moderator: Greg Hatch, Head, Fine Arts Library
1-2 pm, Marriott Library Gould Auditorium
Friday, October 23
Workshop
Remix and Reuse: Tools for Discovering Open Access Resources for Use in Research, Scholarship and Creative Works
presenters: Allyson Mower and Tony Sams
2-3:30 pm, Marriott Library Room 1120
Wow that looks like a great lineup, Allyson! Congratulations.
-Will
Allyson,
Will there be any OA videos, transcripts, or presentations available from these panels and workshops? The lineup sounds really interesting and I wish I could be there.
Best,
Allegra
Hi Allegra,
Yes, we will record the presentations and make them available via USpace. I’ll add the links to this site as we get them up. I’d also like to stream John Willinsky’s keynote address and am in the process of working out the details.
Allyson
Thats a great lineup, congrats. am seriously thinking on what my school could do to promote the institutional repository a newly created department on that week.
All the best
Thanks for the comment, Richard. All the events will be streamed live if you or anyone at your campus would like to view them. Also, have you heard about IR Day at Utah State University? That may be of interest.
I just returned from the Open Learning Conference. This will be a great follow-on to the ideas and discussions from that experience. This is all particularly interesting as we now have a system at the UofU which will allow instructors to contribute, share and find open learning objects used within their Blackboard (WebCT) and Moodle courses.
I am looking forward to the archived presentations. I am not on campus this week and so cannot attend in person.
Hi Sandra,
I will post links to the recorded presentations here as soon as they become available. Check back in a few days.
Allyson
I’ve been watching this site for a month and don’t see any recordings posted. Is this just one of those things that gets forgotten about after a certain amount of time has passed and no one gets around to it? Or am I missing something on the site?
Hi David,
The recordings are coming soon!! My apologies for the delay. I will send you a direct message as soon as they’re posted.
Allyson
Thanks for good article Allyson!
I agree with you that OA is great stuff for all.
It is free for all to read, and to use (or reuse) to various extents. In OA you have free access to material (mainly scholarly publications) via the Internet.All researchers benefit from OA as no library can afford to subscribe to every scientific journal and most can only afford a small fraction of them.
Cheers!