October 24Wednesday

• Scholarship Unlocked: The Future of Open Access

  October 24, 2012 from 2pm to 3:30pm – UK Athletics Association Auditorium, William T. Young Library, University of Kentucky Dr. David Solomon, Michigan State University, will deliver a keynote address on the current state and future of open access. Specifically, he will address the different models of open access publishi… Organized by University of Kentucky Libraries | Type: presentations, discussion

• The Future of Academic Publishing: Digital Humanities and On-line Publishing

  October 24, 2012 from 2pm to 3pm – LIB209 Laura Runge Organized by Rebel Cummings-Sauls | Type: presentation

• Open Government, Open Data, Open Dialogue, Open Information

  October 24, 2012 from 1:30pm to 2:30pm – University of Regina Library To help celebrate Open Access Week, Donald Johnson presents an update about oURspace at the University of Regina. Following this, Alyssa Daku discusses the benefits of open government as well as the… Organized by Michael Shires | Type: public, lecture

• An Introduction to BioMed Central, SpringerOpen, and Chemistry Central

  October 24, 2012 from 1pm to 2pm – 2022 Dentistry/Pharmacy Building, University of Alberta BioMed Central, SpringerOpen and Chemistry Central are all open access initiatives from Springer Publishing. A representative from Springer will provide an overview of each initiative, discuss the j… Organized by Nicole Dalmer | Type: lecture

• Center for Intellectual Property webinar on Public Domain and Digitization

  October 24, 2012 from 1pm to 3pm – Online Wednesday 10/24 @ 1 pm EDT Series:  Classic Community ConversationTopic: Open Access Week:  Public Domain and Digitization Host/Speakers: Freya Anderson, Head of Information Services, Alaska State Li… Organized by Center for Intellectual Property | Type: webinar

• Open Access Week Event at MacEwan University

  October 24, 2012 from 1pm to 2pm – Grant MacEwan University Happily Open After: Engaging Your Students with Open Access Resources Room 7-266A, Faculty Commons, City Centre Campus Once upon a time there was a university graduate who no longer had access to rel… Organized by Robyn Hall | Type: workshop

• An Introduction to BioMed Central, SpringerOpen, and Chemistry Central

  October 24, 2012 from 1pm to 2pm – University of Alberta To help promote open acces to faculty and grad students from the University of Alberta, Bob Schatz from the BioMed Central team will be presenting on BioMed Central, SpringerOpen and Chemistry Centra… Organized by University of Alberta | Type: informative, presentation

• Open Access: are Southern voices being stifled?

  October 24, 2012 from 1pm to 2:30pm – UK Researchers from developing countries struggle to get their voices heard in a global publishing environment which favours Northern voices. At the same time, information users in developing countries… Organized by Alistair Scott | Type: webinar

• The University of Auckland Library - New Zealand - Open Access Awareness

  October 24, 2012 from 1pm to 2pm – Auckland, New Zealand Two events will be hosted by The University of Auckland Library for the University of Auckland staff. The first event is a seminar presented by Associate Professor Alex Holcombe from the University o… Organized by | Type: seminar

• Open Access 2012: Greater Impact for Your Research

  October 24, 2012 from 1pm to 2pm – Kurtzman Room, William Pitt Union Rather than solely tracking the number of times a work is cited in scholarly literature, altmetrics--alternative ways of measuring the use of, and impact of, scholarship--use social media and other w… Organized by OA@Pitt | Type: discussion