October 21Wednesday

• Open Access Week at Centennial College Libraries

  October 21, 2015 from 11:30am to 1:30pm – Canada Join Centennial College Libraries in celebrating Open Access Week October 19-25 [Source: Open Access Week, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License] “Open for Collaboration” http://www.openaccess… Organized by Sarah Shujah | Type: film, screening

• Everything you Always Wanted to Know about Open Access

  October 21, 2015 from 11:30am to 1pm – United Kingdom An Introduction for PhD Students and Early Career Researchers  Open Access Today: What You Need to Know by Dr Janneke Adema In this talk Janneke will shortly explain what open access (OA) entails and… Organized by Disruptive Media Learning Lab | Type: seminar

• Conocimiento Abierto en la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos: Repositorio institucional y MOOC en URJC online.

  October 21, 2015 from 11am to 12pm – Spain La Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, comprometida con el conocimiento abierto, participa en distintas iniciativas y desarrolla acciones que, sustentadas en el acceso abierto, tratan de extender las posibi… Organized by Manuel Gertrudix Barrio | Type: conference

• SCHOLARS GO OPEN: Wege und Chancen des Open Access-Publizierens

  October 21, 2015 from 11am to 6:30pm – Germany Am 21.10.2015 von 11:00 bis 16:30 Uhr veranstaltet die Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz den Open Access Day in der Alten Mensa im Rahmen der internationalen Open Access Week 2015. Informationen a… Organized by Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz / Universitätsbibliothek | Type: open, access, day

• The Price is Not Right

  October 21, 2015 from 11am to 2pm – United States of America The Price is Not Right (journal and textbook costs) Stop by and visit the session between 11 a.m.-2 p.m. in the Learning Commons, Main Library, Group Area D. Organized by Cathy Cranston | Type: learning, activities

• Who's Devouring Whom?: Preventing Publishing Predation Dorothea Salo, Faculty Associate, School of Library and Information Studies, UW Madison

  October 21, 2015 from 10:30am to 12pm – United States of America 10:30 a.m. coffee & pastries •11 a.m. presentation • Klarchek Information Commons, Fourth Floor Scholarly publishing, once a quiet predictable oasis, has metamorphosed into a wild bramble-thicket… Organized by Margaret Heller | Type: lecture

• Open for Collaboration: an introduction to open scholarly communication practices

  October 21, 2015 from 10:30am to 11:30am – United Kingdom This session will examine collaboration between three important stakeholders in the open access process: author, library and publisher. We will provide an overview of the open access landscape as it… Organized by Carolyn Kirby | Type: webinar

• Open for Collaboration: an introduction to open scholarly communication practices

  October 21, 2015 from 10:30am to 11:30am – United Kingdom Would you like to know more about scholarly publishing and Open Access models? Tune in to this webinar for an overview of the essentials and learn about how publishers, universities and funding bodie… Organized by Brunel University London | Type: webinar

• Towards the new paradigm of science and scholarly communication environment - e-Science, research data sharing, and research data infrastructures -

  October 21, 2015 from 10:15am to 5:45pm – Japan Research data is becoming one of the most important topics among academic stakeholders of research and scholarly communications. It has been recognized that research data is produced through researc… Organized by SPARC Japn | Type: seminar

• Promoting Progressive Approaches to Open Access, Richard Hayman (Digital Initiatives Librarian, MRU)

  October 21, 2015 from 10am to 11am – Canada This session critically addresses contemporary scholarly communication issues related to academic publishing and the serials crisis.  Richard will discuss benefits of choosing to publish in OA journa… Organized by Mount Royal University Library | Type: speaker, series