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Open Access Week 2014 – Events

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October 20: Visit from UC Press, Alison Mudditt, Director of UC Press. Alison will provide an update on recent UC Press activities, news, and upcoming new projects (Open Access Journals, Open Access Monographs).
October 20
10:30 am – Noon
LL 570

October 20: World Bank Webinar: “Generation Open”

LL 110
Noon – 1 p.m.

SPARC and the World Bank have just announced the program for the 2014 International Open Access Week Kickoff Event which will take place on Monday, October 20th, at 3pm EDT / 9pm CET at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC and will be live webcast at live.worldbank.org. The full announcement is copied below and is available online at http://www.sparc.arl.org/events/oaweek2014/program.

The hour-long event will focus on this year’s theme of “Generation Open” and provide a forum for students and early career researchers to have a lively conversation with an expert panel representing research funders, university administrators, and scholarly societies, exploring how the transition to Open Access affects scholars and researchers at different stages of their careers. Interested individuals are encouraged to submit questions now for our panel to discuss through the online form at http://www.sparc.arl.org/events/oaweek2014/question.

The following expert panelists will be featured:

– Stefano Bertuzzi: Executive Director, American Society for Cell Biology
– José-Marie Griffiths: Vice President for Academic Affairs, Bryant University
– Meredith Niles: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program, Harvard University
– Jerry Sheehan: Assistant Director for Policy Development, National Library of Medicine

The webcast and LiveBlog will be recorded and posted for use during and after local Open Access events.
October 21: Webinar: Introduction to the UC Publications Management System
With the University of California Open Access Policy entering its second phase of implementation, faculty at all ten UC campuses will now be required to submit their publications to eScholarship in compliance with the policy. That means we can all count on a surge of faculty questions and requests for help in the next few months!

Join Catherine Mitchell and Justin Gonder from the California Digital Library to learn more about the OA Policy and its latest implementation, including:
• An in-depth introduction to the new publication harvesting system for the three pilot campuses: UC Irvine, UCLA, and UCSF
• A demo of the manual deposit tools available to all UC campuses
• An exploration of resources to support the policy and outreach efforts
• A Q&A session to clarify any lingering questions

Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2014
LL 110
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Archived Video: http://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=dzy5sp

The password is: ucoa

October 22: Brown-bag: “Ten things you should know about scholarly communication”
ASL 104
Noon- 1:00 p.m.

Scholarly Communication” describes the system by which researchers share the results of their research with their colleagues, but also available to any reader. Publishing research results in a traditional academic publication serves to broadly disseminate those results to one’s colleagues around the world. However, this system of scholarly communication is undergoing change from faculty authors and their institutions, such as the UC Open Access Policy.

This hour-long brown bag will ask the participants to explore one or more of the ten points about scholarly communications for the lunch group.

ACRL “Ten things you should know about scholarly communication”
http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/issues/scholcomm/docs/sc101-things.pdf.

Jeffrey Beall “Ten things you should know about scholarly communication (revised)”
https://scholarlyoa.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/ten-things-revised.pdf
Jeffrey’s revised flyer highlights publishing practices and the author page charges associated with some models for funding publication.

 

Webinar: Open Access Policy Fall 2014 Update for UC Libraries

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UC faculty adopted the UC Open Access Policy over a year ago. As the UC Libraries head into fall 2014, three campuses are set to begin use of the metadata harvesting system to help faculty deposit articles, and the other seven are set to begin depositing manually. On October 7, 2014  Katie Fortney, Mitchell Brown, and Sharon E. Farb held a  discussion of the issues librarians are most likely to hear about from their library colleagues and from faculty:

  • Timeline and functionality for the harvesting system
  • Publisher policies and reactions
  • Lessons learned about campus outreach so far

[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/108300290[/vimeo]

https://vimeo.com/108300290 (51:41)

UCI LIBRARIES: OPEN CALIFORNIA TOUR – SPARC PRESENTATION ON OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

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Open California Tour:  Friday, May 16th

Raising the Impact of Research, Scholarship and Education Through Openness

Technology is enabling research and discovery in new and exciting ways and is expanding our ability to share knowledge and educate in new and expanding ways.  New models to share and educate include Open Access, which allows for free, immediate online availability of research publications to any reader and with full reuse rights, and Open Educational Resources, which make textbooks and teaching materials free for anyone to edit, adapt, and share.  With the UC Open Access policy and one of the largest group of world-class research scholars in the world, the University of California system is positioned to be a global leader in shaping and directing these new models to expand access to knowledge, accelerate research and learning, and reduce financial pressures.

As part of a week-long tour of California universities, two prominent experts on Open Access and Open Educational Resources, Nicole Allen and Nick Shockey fromSPARC, will visit UC Irvine on Friday, May 16, 2014. Their talk will focus on how openness can accelerate scholarship, benefit researchers, and improve education—including specific recommendations for how members of the campus community can get involved.

Presentations on Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/txtbks

Presentation, including Q&A session, will be held:

Date:  Friday, May 16, 2014

Time:  10:00 – 11:00 AM

Location:  Langson Library, Caroline A. Laudati Meeting Room (5th Floor)

Nicole Allen—Slide share slide deck examples    http://www.slideshare.net/txtbks

Followed by an informal discussion:

Date:  Friday, May 16, 2014

Time:  11:00 – 12:00 PM

Location:  Langson Library, Room 110 (first floor)  [map & visitor parking]   [Langson Library map]

For more information & updates:  http://www.lib.uci.edu//features/spotlights/sparc-op-ed.html

Questions?  Contact Mitchell Brown  |  949-824-9732  |   mcbrown@uci.edu

 

ROAD Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources

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This information is from the roundup of ALA Midwinter 2014 top picks online session and is about the new project of the ISSN agency to provide access to open access journals, conference proceedings and series.

ROAD, the Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources, is a service offered by the ISSN International Centre with the support of the Communication and Information Sector of UNESCO.  Launched as a beta version on 16th December 2013,  ROAD will be developped during 2014 (extension of the coverage, additional features…).

ROAD provides a free access to a subset of the ISSN Register – http://road.issn.org/en

This subset comprises  bibliographic records which describe scholarly resources in Open Access which have been assigned an ISSN by the ISSN Network : journals, conference proceedings and academic repositories. ROAD records are also downloadable as a MARC XML dump and will be available as RDF triples in 2014.

The bibliographic records have been enriched by metadata about the coverage of the resources by indexing, abstracting, citation databases, registries and journals indicators.

ROAD serves four major purposes  :

to provide a single access point to different types of online scholarly resources published worldwide and freely available.

to provide information about the use of the Open Access resources identified by an ISSN in the scholarly community.

as such, and once the coverage of ROAD is developed, to give an overview of the Open Access scholarly production worldwide (for statistics purposes for instance)

to demonstrate new ways of using the ISSN for compiling information from various sources.