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2011 Open (Access Week) Idea Swap - October 3

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Permalink Reply by Mel DeSart on October 3, 2011 at 6:42am

Here's the original Sticker Shock from Cornell. http://engineering.library.cornell.edu/about/StickerShock

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Permalink Reply by Graham Steel on October 3, 2011 at 6:53am

My $0.02 which kinda ties in with this...

Since it's a bit early in Australia, on behalf of the makers of "Scientist meets Publisher" (>2500 views) comes this idea from earlier today.

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Permalink Reply by Nicola Yeeles on October 3, 2011 at 6:43am

At Jisc, the UK's consortium for technology in higher and further education, we are planning:

- case studies from different institutions to illustrate how open approaches can achieve benefits for colleges and universities by linking with strategy

- our open access web space: including these case studies and sections on different resources and activities

- linked blog posts from late October until Christmas on various open themes eg. open standards, open data

- Twitter campaign throughout open access week pointing to different resources

- launch of various reports including 'Benefits for the Private Sector'

- a webinar on open source licensing for IT managers

For JISC, open access is part of a wider agenda to support open issues. Look forward to hearing your comments and you can email me for more: n.yeeles@jisc.ac.uk

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Permalink Reply by Jim Hobbs on October 3, 2011 at 6:45am

Links available yet?

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Permalink Reply by Nicola Yeeles on October 3, 2011 at 6:57am

Hi Jim, we'll be linking our resources to the existing advice sheet for universities about why oa is good for them:

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/supportingyourinstitution/researchexcellence/...

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Permalink Reply by Nicola Yeeles on October 3, 2011 at 6:48am

Thanks Jennifer!

Here's a really interesting paper from last year which asks "which policy will work best for your university?" with facts and figures attached to that.

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/briefingpapers/2010/publishingre...

We used it as a great media hook last year but you might find something to interest your local journalists.

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Permalink Reply by Graham Steel on October 3, 2011 at 6:56am

Being UK based, I am WELL aware of JISC but don't yet have a contact there.... Ello Nicola :)

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Permalink Reply by Nicola Yeeles on October 3, 2011 at 7:00am

Hello Graham, good to meet you!

Where are you based?

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Permalink Reply by Graham Steel on October 3, 2011 at 7:22am

In Glasgow.

Gave a talk at the BL earlier in the year in connection with the JISC funded "Patients Participate" Workshop http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/patientsparticipate/2011/07/01/presentatio...

Spoke briefly with your Simon Hodson but too little time....

I be on the Twitterverse as @McDawg

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Permalink Reply by Barbara DeFelice on October 3, 2011 at 6:46am

Dartmouth College:

We have a series of lunchtime faculty roundtables and workshops in the Center for the Advancement of Learning, so we're using that format and space for two sessions, since we typically have just the right turnout to fill the space. I find that trying to have one "big" talk event is difficult due to so much competing campus programming.

Faculty panel/discussion at a hosted lunch, max. 30 people, on the changing nature of scholarly and scientific society publishing, particularly open access publishing. The five panelists are well known on campus, come from different disciplines and have different takes on their society publishing. The session is open to grad students too.

Faculty roundtable on Open Courses and Student Learning, to talk about next steps on opening up course materials, open textbooks options, etc. There may be a couple of undergraduates at this to present their views.

Drop in sessions on our author fee program, COPE

Slide show to post around campus that highlights open access Dartmouth research called "Research with a Global Reach"

Our web page is in progress at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/schcomm/OAWeek2011.html

I'm working with an undergraduate on other ideas for students and we'll at least post the webinars on a page dedicated to undergraduates.

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Permalink Reply by Nick Shockey on October 3, 2011 at 6:58am

Barbara, are you working with Parker Phinney? He's involved with the Students for Free Culture chapter there at Dartmouth and moderated an Open Access panel I participated in earlier this year during their Free Culture Conference.