BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Pacific/Midway X-LIC-LOCATION:Pacific/Midway BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-1100 TZOFFSETTO:-1100 TZNAME:SST DTSTART:19700101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5385115:Event:102173 DTSTAMP:20260416T172439Z SUMMARY:Open Access Week Events at Ryerson University Library, Ontario Canada DESCRIPTION:Liberate Your Course Materials: Open Access and Copyright Free Resources For Your Teaching\nOctober 22, 2013 – 12:00 p.m. to 2 :00 p.m. in LIB489B, Library 4th floor.\nIn this workshop, facilitate d by Ann Ludbrook, Copyright Librarian, and Michelle Schwartz, Researc h Associate for the Learning and Teaching Office, we will highlight fr eely available course materials, textbooks, data sets, and multimedia. The new fair dealing exceptions to the Copyright Act, in combination with Creative Commons material, public domain historical material, and open access books and journals, means that there is more content open for the taking than ever before. Learn where you can find free images for your PowerPoints and free textbooks for your classes! We will be providing participants with tips, resources, and information on librar y services available to reduce the work required to put together cours e readings.\nPlease register online through the LTO website before O ct 22.\nOpen Access Week: Screening of RiP: A Remix Manifesto\nThursd ay, October 24 – 1:30-3 p.m. in LIB489B, 4th floor of the Library\nR iP is an open source documentary that challenges the concept of copyri ght. While it focuses on music it addresses wider issues such as copyl eft, open source, Creative Commons licensing, and file sharing.\n“In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explo res issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media l andscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers”.\nThe film features Creative Commons founder, Lawrence L essig, Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture cri tic Cory Doctorow. For more information, visit: http://www.nfb.ca/fil m/rip_a_remix_manifesto/\nLibraries, OERs, and Open Access \nWebinar: Elaine Fabbro, Colin Elliott, and Rachel Conroy, Athabasca University \nFriday, October 25, 2013 – 2:00-3:00 p.m. in LIB489B, 4th floor  register to view the webinar in the Library, or view from off-c ampus.\nAthabasca University (AU) and Athabasca University Library hav e a long history in supporting and promoting Open Access. AU was the first university in Canada to adopt an Open Access Research Policy an d has led many other Open Access initiatives. As the university moves to a model that utilizes Open Educational Resources, the AU Library is being called upon to support more courses with Open Access resourc es. \nThe Library will also have a contest running on Twitter through out Open Access Week to help raise awareness. The owners of the first 3 retweets with the hashtag #RyeOA2013 will receive a $10 gift certifi cate to the Ryerson Bookstore.  \nIn addition to events at Ryerson, b oth University of Toronto Libraries and York University Libraries are also celebrating open access with a series of events, which are o pen to the academic community at large.\nThe Library also has an Open Access Author’s Fund to provide financial support for authors who wish to publish their research in an open access journal.\n\nFor more information visit http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/events/open-access -week-events-at-ryerson-university-library-ontario DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Midway:20131021T000000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Midway:20131025T235900 CATEGORIES:open, access, week, 2013 LOCATION:LIB489B WEBSITE:http://library.ryerson.ca/blog/2013/10/open-access-week-events -at-the-library/ URL:http://library.ryerson.ca/blog/2013/10/open-access-week-events-at- the-library/ CONTACT:https://plus.google.com/101873332584221391385/about?gl=us&hl=e n ORGANIZER;CN="Ann Ludbrook":http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/A nnLudbrook ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg": ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Ann Ludb rook":http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/AnnLudbrook END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR