The Simon Fraser University Library is pleased to present the following events as part of Open Access Week 2011, October 24 – 30. This week is an opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research. All events are FREE, but registration is required.
Not sure what Open Access is? Watch the one minute video on Open Access from McGill Library.
Keynote Presentation – David EavesOpen Data, Open Government and the University
Governments around the world are increasingly making their data freely available to anyone with an internet connection. What are the implications – for citizens, policy makers, governments and scholars? In this talk, open innovation expert David Eaves will discuss the expansion and significance of the rise of the open data and open government movement, outline what has taken place in Canada and explore the coming challenges and opportunities.
David Eaves is a public policy entrepreneur, open government activist and open innovation expert who advises many governments (including the City of Vancouver) on open data and open government strategies, as well as helping them draft and execute implementation plans. He is regularly invited to speak internationally on these and other issues to executives, policymakers, and students.
Co-sponsored by SFU Library and SFU School of Public Policy
Thursday October 27, 4:00pm to 5:00pm (followed by a reception at the Teck Gallery, SFU Vancouver)
SFU Vancouver, Labatt Hall Room 1700 | 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC
Please register using SFU’s websurvey tool
Recycle, reuse, research: Using open data in scholarly research
A growing number of scholars are choosing to leverage open data for research. This session addresses the why and how behind this trend.
Speakers:
- Dr. Alex Clapp (SFU, Department of Geography) will describe his work on the significance of open data in environmental science, with reference to the global temperature record and the BP oil spill.
- Dr. Meghan Winters (SFU, Faculty of Health Sciences) will detail the development of the Cycling Route Planner, an openly-available web tool to support public health.
- Dr. Heather Piwowar, a postdoctoral research associate with the NSF DataONE project, will provide an overview of the costs and – more importantly – benefits of open data use, and highlight current research on the subject.
Date / Time: Wednesday October 26, 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: WAC Bennett Library, Room 2020, Burnaby Campus
Please register using the SFU Student Learning Commons Workshop tool
What’s scholarly publishing got to do with you? A discussion for grad students
Deciding where and how to publish your work can be a significant decision for new scholars, one with practical, ethical, and sometimes financial implications. Join us for a roundtable discussion among graduate students exploring these questions, including consideration of open access publishing options. Complimentary lunch for those who register in advance.
Co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Society
Date / Time: Tuesday October 25, 11:30am-1pm
Location: Graduate Lounge, Maggie Benston 2212, Burnaby Campus
Please register using the SFU Student Learning Commons Workshop tool
Author rights
Your article has been accepted for publication and as a final step you must sign and submit the publisher’s copyright transfer agreement. By signing this agreement, publishers can obtain exclusive rights to the article preventing you from legally repurposing it, using it in teaching, archiving the article on a personal website or in SFU’s institutional repository.
Join us to explore ways to retain your copyright, including methods you can use to amend license agreements to retain key rights to your work.
Speakers: Nicole Gjertsen and Shane Plante, Liaison Librarians (SFU Library)
Two identical sessions offered:
Date / Time: Monday October 24, 12:00pm – 12:50pm
Location: WAC Bennett Library, Room 3101, Burnaby Campus
Please register using the SFU Student Learning Commons Workshop tool
Date / Time: Tuesday October 25, 12:00pm – 12:50pm
Location: Fraser Library, Room 3695, Surrey Campus
Please register using the SFU Student Learning Commons Workshop tool
Summit: The SFU Institutional Repository
Learn about Summit, the SFU institutional repository, a place that brings together selected scholarship and research of SFU and promotes this work to the wider world while also providing a long term, stable home for this scholarship.
Learn about how you can contribute your own works to Summit and make them available in a stable environment for the long term. Summit – it’s more than just a place for your thesis.
Speaker: Don Taylor, Assistant Head, IR Coordinator (SFU Library)
Date / Time: Wednesday October 26, 11:30am to 12:20pm
Location: WAC Bennett Library, Lab 2105, Burnaby Campus
Please register using the SFU Student Learning Commons Workshop tool
Publishing services at SFU
Learn how SFU Library’s publishing services can assist you with launching a journal, hosting a conference, or publishing a book.
This session will provide an overview of the Public Knowledge Project’s suite of:
- Open Journal Systems (OJS), a free journal management and publishing system;
- Open Conference Systems (OCS); a free web publishing tool that will create a complete web presence for your scholarly conference and
- Open Monograph Press (OMP); a free online workspace for publishing monographs, edited volumes, and scholarly editions, while keeping an archival record of the process.
Speaker: Nicole Gjertsen, Liaison Librarian (SFU Library)
Two identical sessions offered:
Date / Time: Thursday October 27, 11:30am – 12:20pm
Location: WAC Bennett Library, Lab 4009, Burnaby Campus
Please register using the SFU Student Learning Commons Workshop tool
Date / Time: Wednesday November 9, 12:00pm – 12:50pm
Location: Fraser Library, Room 3695, Surrey Campus
Please register using the SFU Student Learning Commons Workshop tool
For more information, please contact: Todd Mundle, Associate University Librarian tmundle@sfu.ca 778.782.3263
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