Posts from — September 2009

October 20, 2009 - SPARC Japan’s OA Week Events –

“An Open Access Business Model and Researchers’ Attitudes” http://www.nii.ac.jp/sparc/en/event/2009/20091020en.html

Please register by sending send an e-mail titled “The 5th SPARC Japan Seminar” to the following with your name, affiliation and e-mail address.

We may use your contact information to let you know of any significant changes on this seminar or information on our future seminars.

Deadline: October 13, 2009

※Due to limited space (for 80 people), participation is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Send to： SPARC Japan, Scholarly and Academic Information Division, Cyber Science Infrastructure Development Department, National Institute of Informatics, JAPAN
E-mail: co_sparc_all@nii.ac.jp FAX: +81-3-4212-2375

October 21, 2009 - My Open Archive, Creative Commons, Japan, The Chemical Society of Japan, and the School of Library and Information Science, Keio University

“The future of Open Access: e-Research, Open Courseware, Social Network Services” http://www.openaccessweek.jp/2009/09/24/267/#more-267

Please register early to reserve your seat.

Register no later than 1p.m. in Japan Standard Time, October 15 (Thur).

If you have any question, please contact us at:

Office of Open Access “Friday & Night” 2009

Keita Bando(Managing Director, My Open Archive)

info@openaccessweek.jp

http://www.openaccessweek.jp/

To broaden awareness and understanding of open access, Athabasca University will present a series of five noon-hour webcasts exploring major issues and opportunities presented by open access. Each session will feature an internationally known promoter and developer of open access resources, research or ideas.

Each session will be offered via Elluminate web conference from noon to 1 p.m. Mountain Time and opened to general public.

For more information, please access AU Open Access Week website at: http://openaccess.athabascau.ca/ [^]

• Presidents of 57 liberal arts colleges in the U.S., representing 22 states, have declared their support for the Federal Research Public Access Act http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/ [^]

• 3-fold brochure - Humanities OA brochure - produced by open-access.net in Germany. http://www.openaccessweek.org/wp-content/uploads/3-fold-brochure-germany.pdf [^]

Wednesday, October 21 at 4-5:30
New Graduate Student Center in the Student Center, UC Irvine

This session will be presented by the UCI Libraries as part of its Scholarly Communications & Management Program (SCAMP) http://www.lib.uci.edu/about/projects/scamp/scholarly-communication-and-management-program.html [^]

Barbara Cohen, advisory board member for the Open Humanities Press (OHP) http://openhumanitiespress.org/ [^] will be participating on a panel about “Open Access Press: A Collective in the Humanities.” along with a speaker from the Physical Sciences addressing “Why Math and
Not More Chemistry?” and speakers in Medicine and the Social Sciences.

A reception will follow the program.

Take a look at all the activities planned by the individual institutions in Germany.

For example, at the University Library of Kassel the following activities are planned (we particularly like item 3!):

*Promotion of Open Access in front of the canteen and distribution of information material
*Talks and a symposium in the evenings
*Preparation of orange-coloured jelly (jello) modelled on the OA button; distribution free of charge

Please support the power of open visual media to promote the power of open access ETDs…

The YouTube website for our contest is  http://www.youtube.com/group/etd2009

You may either:

1. Identify a youtube video that already exists, write to the author with your youtube account (or ask us to do it with our account), and ask them to join the group and add their video to the group.
2.  Create your own youtube video, join the group, and add the video.
3.  Find an OA advocate in your sphere of influence and encourage them to make a video and upload it in time for open access week 2009.

BTW, your google (gmail) ID, if you have them, will also allow you to join the group or submit a video

Please support the power of open visual media to promote the power of open access ETDs…

Besides basic clicking, please suggest other ways to judge the contest winners.   The NDLTD will promote your favorite OA videos online.  You must submit your nomination no later than midnight on Friday, October 23, 2009.

You may contact NDLTD OA Week Contest representatives as follows:
Charles.Greenberg@yal.edu or John.Hagen@mail.wvu.edu

Some time ago it was the lack of public access to medical research data that really stirred the issue and gave inertia for legislation and a new publishing model that puts tax payer-funded science in the hands of those who fund it. In the age of global climate change, and on the eve of the Copenhagen Climate Conference http://en.cop15.dk/ [^] in the end of 2009, the same argument resonates: climate affects us all in multiple ways and the publicly-funded science quantifying it should be accessible.

OA advocacy is frequently avoided within the earth sciences, due to lack of understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of OA. An Open Access Week event at the Institut Universitaire Europeen de la Mer (IUEM) in Brest, France will try to educate the next generation of earth researchers in an informal ‘discussion over coffee’ forum. The goal is to provide practical advice on what the Open Access philosophy can do to boost their early careers, and the physical meeting of OA experts will allow students to stick names to faces and form an advice panel that students can turn to throughout the year.

Even though young researchers today are part of the .pdf generation and more susceptible to the ideas of OA, they are as much subjects to the ‘publish or perish’ reality as their own mentors. To attract their attention the organizers will try to step into the shoes of an overstressed, frequently underpaid post-graduate student in their last doctoral year and in dire need of high impact publications, and attempt to answer the obvious questions of ‘why?’, ‘how?’, ‘how much?’ and ‘what’s in it for me?’. The event will also try to put value on the dust-gathering leftovers of a doctoral thesis: DATA! Painstakingly, expensive and time-consuming to gather strings of digits no longer need to die forgotten in dated hard drives. Instead, recent developments in the OA movement has resulted in the first open access journal for data only. The Earth System Science Data Journal http://www.earth-system-science-data.net/, [^] pecifically created to publish data-only publications with the usual peer reviewed rigour, turns a students’dusty data files into publications and citations, and the publications process guarantees long-term archiving of the data in the Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data http://www.pangaea.de/ [^] .

Going beyond the ethical argument, we can encouraged young researchers to make their science accessible, by focusing on proven methods and existing sources of funding for open access publishing, that can make early career publications more visible, citable and ultimately usable and applicable, and frequently doing so without further depleting the research grant.

Now that is a carrot worth waving!

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Ivo Grigorov
European Institute for Marine Science
Place Nicolas Copernic 29280 Plouzane France
+33 2 98 49 86 73

If you been a part of establishing or maintaining a unique digital repository that provides open access to a collection, or showcasing your repository’s content DuraSpace wants to hear your story. Please consider sharing your passion and knowledge of collecting, curating, managing and sharing digital repository resources by entering the DuraSpace SPARC Open Access Week Contest and telling your short or long story: http://duraspace.org/contest.php.

Here is an example of the kind of story we are interested in:

Studs Terkel said,”Chicago’s story is a tale of people. People working, playing, fighting, organizing, relaxing, politicking, loving, hating, building, and everything else that makes a city hum. The Encyclopedia of Chicago has those people. It is their story.” http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/grossman/index.html
The online version of the Encyclopedia of Chicago http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/410150.html reflects that rich history in all of its grit and glamour and runs on top of a Fedora Commons repository. In a presentation about how users interact with image collections using Encyclopedia of Chicago online tools, Librarian and archivist Sarah Marcus, Historian and Managing Editor, Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago, Chicago History Museum, noted that one student had zoomed in on a great pair of shoes captured in an image of the 1949 White City Roller Rink Demonstration because she was particularly interested in clothing design. Although the fashions that people were wearing on the street at that time were not the context in which the photograph was cataloged or displayed, serendipitous access to this obscure image from long ago through an open access repository may have inspired a young fashion designer in her pursuing her interests.

Submit your entry online at http://duraspace.org/contest.php through September 28, 2009. DuraSpace SPARC Open Access Week Contest winners will be announced on October 1, 2009. Winners will receive $50 Amazon gift certificates and will be invited to tell their stories during the Sun/DuraSpace/SPARC “All About Repositories” Web Seminar on Oct. 14, 2009. Screenshots and other media are welcome and should be submitted separately to Carol Minton Morris.

Engaging students: Open Access Week and beyond -  a SPARC pre-Open Access Week Webcast - 1

Since the first OA day of action in 2007, students have been actively rallying their peers to get involved in the OA movement. Tapping into student energy, commitment, and national networks can transform library programs around faculty and campus engagement, including those planned for October.

On September 30th, please join us for a Webcast on “The next level of student engagement: Open Access Week and beyond.” Nick Shockey, SPARC’s Student Advocacy Fellow and engineer of the student summit, will discuss new ways to get student attention – including new messages and tools he’s developed, how to connect to the burgeoning student network for Open Access, and how to plug in to the student initiative for Open Access Week.

This one-hour event will be held:

Date: Wednesday, September 30th, 1:00 – 2:00PM Eastern
Register no later than 12PM Eastern Tuesday, September 29th

Engaging administrators: Open Access Week and beyond - a SPARC Pre-Open Access Week Webcast - 2

Please join us for a second pre-Open Access Week Webcast on engaging campus administrators, October 13th at 11:00am Eastern. Our guests will be Professor Bernard Rentier, Rector of the University of Liege and Chairman of Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS), and Dr. Alma Swan of Key Perspectives Ltd and OASIS (the Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook). Please watch the SPARC Web site for details.