Open Access Week 2012 at the University of Utah  

October 23-25, 2012

How do readers find and get access to published research results? And what makes them likely to download and cite papers? Does it depend on researchers’ publishing choices and how do those choices differ among disciplines? These questions and more will be explored during the 4th annual Open Access Week at the University of Utah. This year’s keynote address will provide insight into the world of scholarly communications and will include a panel of University of Utah authors who will share their experiences publishing in open access journals and how it affected their readership. And don’t miss the workshop on how to make your research article visible as well as a presentation on the University of Utah’s online collection of research material created by faculty, staff, and students.

Free and Open to the Public.

Schedule of Events

Tuesday, October 23

Workshop

Publishing SMART: How to Make Your Article Visible

Authors want their scholarly articles to be seen, cited and utilized. This class provides opportunities for researchers to increase their visibility by exploring various publishing and archiving choices. Tools for evaluating journal impact factors, online usage, local online availability, retaining copyrights, and submission to online archives are covered.

Wednesday, October 24

Keynote Address and Panel Discussion

Dr. Bollen is associate professor at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing. He was formerly a staff scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2005-2009, and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Old Dominion University from 2002 to 2005. He obtained his PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Brussels in 2001 on the subject of cognitive models of human hypertext navigation. He has taught courses on Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries. His research has been funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Science Foundation, Library of Congress, National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. His present research interests are usage data mining, computational sociometrics, informetrics, and digital libraries. He has extensively published on these subjects as well as matters relating to adaptive information systems architecture. He is presently the Principal Investigator of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded MESUR project which aims to expand the quantitative tools available for the assessment of scholarly impact.

Mr. Schonfeld leads the research efforts at Ithaka S+R, including examinations of the impact of new technologies on academia through studies of faculty attitudes and practices, teaching and learning with technology, and the changing role of the library. Key projects at Ithaka S+R that Roger has led include the Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey; projects on the changing research methods and practices of faculty members in fields such as history and chemistry; studies of the impact and sustainability of courseware initiatives; the Ithaka S+R Library Survey of deans and directors; a number of projects on library strategy, economics, and collections analysis, with a particular emphasis on digitization, management, and preservation of library collections, culminating in What to Withdraw for scholarly journals and two national consulting projects regarding government documents on behalf of ARL/COSLA and GPO. Roger has served on theNSF Blue Ribbon Task Force for Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access and the Western Regional Storage Trust’s advisory committee. Previously, Roger was a research associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. There, he collaborated on The Game of Life: College Sports and Academic Values with James Shulman and William G. Bowen (Princeton University Press, 2000). He also wrote JSTOR: A History(Princeton University Press, 2003), focusing on the development of a sustainable not-for-profit business model for the digitization and preservation of scholarly texts.

Thursday, October 25

Presentation

USpace at Seven: Shaping and Sustaining the U’s Institutional Repository

During Open Access Week 2010, we celebrated USpace’s fifth birthday. Two years have flown by. Come and hear how the University of Utah’s open access digital repository has continued to develop and grow. Presenters will discuss recent projects, new content development streams, and areas of future growth.

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by allysonmower Open Access Week 2011 at the University of Utah                                                   

October 24-27, 2011

The 3rd annual Open Access Week at the University of Utah brings an exciting line-up of events to campus from a keynote address to a hands-on workshop about mashup skills from the renowned Donald Duck Meets Glenn Beck creator to a panel of experts about digital textbooks. As digital technology and content proliferate, questions of access, copyright, and fair use come to the surface. The week’s events offer an opportunity to explore these new areas of creativity, scholarship, and technology.

Free and Open to the Public.

Schedule of Events

Monday, October 24

Keynote address

LIVE STREAM

Hacking Pop Culture with Remix Video 

Jonathan McIntosh, Rebellious Pixels
11:00 am-12:00 pm, Marriott Library, Gould Auditorium

sponsored by the Department of Communication & the J. Willard Marriott Library

Jonathan McIntosh, a self-proclaimed pop culture hacker, is a video remix artist, new media teacher, fair use activist, and blogger. Best known for his video “Donald Duck Meets Glenn Beck,” Jonathan uses mass media to tell new and different stories grounded in popular culture. As he says it, “Basically I’m a pop culture hacker, but instead of computer code I hack television.” Check out Jonathan’s work at Rebellious Pixels

Tuesday, October 25

Film: rip! Remix Manifesto 

11:30 am to 1 pm, Marriott Library, Gould Auditorium

Workshop: How to Remix and Reuse

presenter: Jonathon McIntosh
1:00-3:00 pm, Marriott Library, Room 1008 (Mac Computer Lab)

register here

sponsored by the Department of Communication & the J. Willard Marriott Library

Interested in learning simple video remixing tools, tricks and techniques? This workshop will present an overview of online and offline remixing apps as well as provide hands-on experience in how to download videos from the web and convert them into easily editable formats. Jonathan will also cover the best practices of fair use when it comes to using copyrighted material in your own work.

Wednesday, October 26

Thursday, October 27

Workshop: Publishing SMART

Authors want their scholarly articles to be seen, cited and utilized. This class provides opportunities for researchers to increase their visibility by exploring various publishing and archiving choices. Tools for evaluating journal impact factors, online usage, local online availability, retaining copyrights, and submission to online archives are covered.

October 18-22, 2010

Open Access Week, now in its second year at the University of Utah, is an opportunity for the campus and community to learn about the benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping make Open Access a new norm in scholarly and creative works. Open Access scholarship is digital, online and free of charge to readers and viewers. 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. Come share, watch, celebrate, and learn.

Free and Open to the Public.

Share.

The Internet, according to John Wilbanks, has democratized creative culture. Science lags far behind. “The vast majority of science is actually a secret,” Wilbanks says. “It’s hidden in labs until it gets published, or it’s thrown in the autoclave if it’s not thought to be worth publishing, or it sits in a fridge because no one knows how to make it available. The fragments never come back together because too many different people have to give permission, and no one can put all the pieces together to ask interesting questions.” Wilbanks heads the four-year-old nonprofit Science Commons, an offshoot of Creative Commons. Like its parent, Science Commons is dedicated to creating an open web culture in which users — in this case scientists — can easily share their work.

Watch.

Open Access Film Festival

The Open Access Film Festival seeks to promote the idea of shared culture by bringing free-to-share films to the attention of local audiences. The event is organized by the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah. All screenings are free and open to the public.

In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.

Wednesday, October 20, 5 pm

Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is a feature-length sci-fi parody, seven years in the making. It is the product of a core group of five Finns, and over 300 extras, assistants and supporters. The film combines world-class visual effects, a rough-and-ready sense of humour, and a passion that provide the basis for the first-ever Finnish science fiction adventure.

Thursday, October 21, 4 pm

Babajaga – Witches in updraft is a film about women united by the all-consuming passion for flying without engine power. It’s about true friendship between sports-women, even across the frontiers of the cold war, and their tireless dedication to get their own Woman World Championship after 33 years of struggle.

Celebrate.

USpace Celebration!

USpace is celebrating five years of providing public access to University of Utah scholarship. Come learn more about USpace and celebrate with free cupcakes!

Learn.

Publishing SMART

Authors want their scholarly articles to be seen, cited and utilized. This class provides opportunities for researchers to increase their visibility by exploring various publishing and archiving choices. Tools for evaluating journal impact factors, online usage, local online availability, retaining copyrights, and submission to online archives are covered.

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