October 24Thursday

• Open Access Week Event:The White House Directive on Open Access and Its Impact on Researchers and Universities

  October 24, 2013 from 4pm to 5pm – Ballroom A, University Club Featured Speaker: Michael W. Carroll, Professor of Law and Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University, Washington College of Law. Institutional support f… Organized by OA@Pitt | Type: open, access, guest, speaker, white, house, directive

• A practical workshop on making your research OA via submission to PEARL

  October 24, 2013 from 3pm to 5pm – Plymouth University BBG 323 A practical workshop for staff covering submission to PEARL, Plymouth University's research repository. The workshop will also cover how to interpret the publisher's policies and establish the copyri… Organized by Nicola Cockarill, TIS | Type: workshop

• RMIT Research Repository: Promoting Your Research

  October 24, 2013 from 3pm to 4pm – RMIT University Library - Seminar Room 1 An introduction to RMIT's RMIT Research Repository and how it can promote open access to research outputs.  To register: http://www.rmit.edu.au/library/oaw Organized by Anne Lennox & Keely Chapman | Type: workshop

• Presentation and approval at the meeting of the Senate members from "Ion Creanga" State Pedagogical University the Institutional Policy on Open Access

  October 24, 2013 from 2pm to 4pm – Chişinău, Ion Creangă, nr. 1 St. Presentation and approval at the meeting of the Senate members from "Ion Creanga" State Pedagogical University the Institutional Policy on Open Access. Presentation of the Institutional repository co… Organized by Natalia Cheradi | Type: presentation

• Visibilidad y acceso: repositorios institucionales

  October 24, 2013 from 2pm to 3:30pm – Universidad de El Salvador, Biblioteca Central, 3° Nivel Conferencia: Visibilidad y acceso: repositorios institucionales / Lic. Héctor Chacón Organized by Lic. Héctor Chacón, Director del Sistema Bibliotecario de la Universidad de El Salvador | Type: conference

• Open Access Publishing Workshop

  October 24, 2013 from 2pm to 3pm – LIB111 Learning Lab, UBC Okanagan Library Presented by the UBC Okanagan Campus Library and the Centre for Scholarly Communication, this workshop provides an introduction to Open Access and resources available, including Open Access Journals,… Organized by UBC Okanagan Campus Library | Type: workshop

• Federal Funding Agencies Push Toward Open Access: FASTR, the White House Directive, and KU

  October 24, 2013 from 2pm to 3:30pm – Watson Library, 3rd floor West One of the highlights of Open Access Week at the University of Kansas will be a presentation on Thursday afternoon by Dr. David Shulenburger, who served as the Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor a… Organized by Marianne Reed | Type: open access week event

• Whose scholarship? Our scholarship!

  October 24, 2013 from 2pm to 3:30pm – University of Regina Wascana & Regina Rooms The current system in academia drives scholars to give away the visible results of our work. We hand over copyright, often to multinational corporations that enjoy an inelastic market - record or nea… Organized by Christina Winter | Type: lecture

• Open Access and Copyright

  October 24, 2013 from 1pm to 2pm – St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland Lunchtime seminar for College staff on copyright and open access considerations for authors by Samantha Holman, Executive Director of Irish Copyright and Licensing Agency. Organized by Liam O'Dwyer | Type: seminar

• Lightning Talks: Open Access Projects Across Campus

  October 24, 2013 from 1pm to 2pm – Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Shapiro Screening Room A series of four talks that highlight projects and activities across campus that manifest the principles and practices of Open Access. Talks feature topics as diverse as groundbreaking Wikipedian-in-… Organized by University of Michigan Library Open Access Committee | Type: presentations