October 23Wednesday

• Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Celebrating Wikipedia Loves Libraries

  October 23, 2013 from 4pm to 6pm – Hatcher Graduate Library Lab s a part of the Open Access Week celebration, the University Library and Open.Michigan are co-hosting this Edit-a-thon to improve Wikipedia content relating to the library's collections, to feature o… Organized by U-M Wikipedians, Open.Michigan, and University of Michigan Library | Type: workshop

• Free Webinar: Open Access in Engineering

  October 23, 2013 from 4pm to 5pm – Webinar SAGE will be hosting an ‘Open Access in Engineering’ webinar during Open Access Week on Wednesday 23rd October 4-5pm, providing information and a forum for discussion on open access publishing within… Organized by SAGE | Type: webinar

• Publishing the Open Access Way: The Change in Business Thinking Towards Open Access

  October 23, 2013 from 3pm to 6:30pm – RMIT University - Storey Hall Lecture Theatre The focus for the panel discussion and Q&A is to outline the benefits and role of open access publishing,  benefits to the community, benefits to readers, and the subsequent benefits to models of… Organized by Anne Lennox & Keely Chapman | Type: panel, discussion, and, q&a

• MOOCs and On-Campus Learning

  October 23, 2013 from 3pm to 4pm – University of British Columbia What will higher education become as the MOOC innovation era plays out? Setting dire predictions aside it seems likely that students will have a vast range of resources for learning at their disposa… Organized by University of British Columbia Library | Type: presentation

• Managing Your Scholarly Identity

  October 23, 2013 from 2:30pm to 4pm – Virginia Tech, Torgersen 3080 Googled yourself lately?  Professionals, researchers, and scholars are often expected to develop an online identity in order to participate in professional networks and promote their work.  However,… Organized by Philip Young | Type: workshop

• Open Textbooks and Educational Resources: New Approaches to Affordable Education

  October 23, 2013 from 2pm to 3:30pm – Stewart Center Room 314. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana High college costs will keep as many as 2.4 million low and moderate-income college-qualified high school graduates from attending college during this decade. For those who do attend college, financi… Organized by David Scherer | Type: open, education, presentation

• Aumentando la visibilidad y posibilidad de citación desde el repositorio de la UPR

  October 23, 2013 from 2pm to 3pm – En línea Conferencia virtual Se presenta el repositorio de resultados de investigación a los recintos de Arecibo y Mayagüez, de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, así como a la comunidad universitaria. Está dirig… Organized by Pura Centeno | Type: webinar

• University of Bath

  October 23, 2013 from 2pm to 5pm – University of Bath, UK Open Access will be celebrated internationally from the 21st – 23rd October 2013.  Here at Bath we are drawing together a group of speakers around the theme of Innovations in Publishing for an aftern… Organized by Kara Jones | Type: mini-conference, on, innovations, in, publication, to, celebrate, oa, week

• A Virtual Chat with Peter Suber

  October 23, 2013 from 2pm to 3pm – Poynter Corner, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library, USFSP Join your USFSP colleagues for a chat with Peter Suber, the Director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communications and the Harvard Open Access Project.  Dr. Suber is an international expert on o… Organized by Carol G. Hixson | Type: oa, week, event, 2013

• Open Access Publishing: understanding the implications for the Arts and Humanities

  October 23, 2013 from 2pm to 4pm – Moore Annexe, School of Management, Royal Holloway University of London This workshop follows ‘Open Access Publishing: a guide for the perplexed’ organised by the Arts and Social Sciences Faculty and Library in June, but will be of interest to all staff and research stud… Organized by Athanasia (Nancy) Pontika | Type: presentations