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

More on U-SKIS
By Peter Suber

Anne Morrow and Allyson Mower, University Scholarly Knowledge Inventory System: A Workflow System for Institutional Repositories, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 47, 3-4 (2009) pp. 286-296.

Abstract: The University Scholarly Knowledge Inventory System (U-SKIS) provides workspace for institutional repository staff. U-SKIS tracks files, communications, and publishers’ archiving policies to determine what may be added to a repository. A team at the University of Utah developed the system as part of a strategy to gather previously published peer-reviewed articles. As campus outreach programs developed, coordinators quickly amassed thousands of journal articles requiring copyright research and permission. This article describes the creation of U-SKIS, addresses the educational role U-SKIS plays in the scholarly communication arena, and explores the implications of implementing scalable workflow systems for other digital collections.

PS: Also see our past posts on U-SKIS.