Event in a box
For 2009:
What do we mean by an event in a box?
That we are going to create a range of different items in various different format such as videos and PDF’s etc and you get to choose which you want to use and when, giving you ultimate flexibility to plan a gathering that suits you.
This year, the organizers will highlight a growing suite of educational resources that local hosts can use to design their own programs on Open Access, for their respective audiences and time zones. Here are a few example of items we are working on:
These audience-specific resource lists will be supplemented by the growing clearinghouse of educational materials available through the Open Access Directory, which will again serve as the key index for participating campuses and organizations on five continents. Through the collaborative functionality of the two initiatives, videos, briefing papers, podcasts, slideshows, posters and other educational tools will be drawn from all over the Web to be featured during Open Access Week 2009.
The organizers will also work with registered participants to develop a variety of sample program tracks, such as “Administrators’ introduction to campus open-access policies and funds,” “OA 101,” and “Complying with the NIH public access policy” that take full advantage of available tools. Scholars, students, libraries, publishers, individuals, and campuses everywhere are invited to adapt these resources as needed and to mark Open Access Week by hosting an event, distributing literature, blogging, or wearing an Open Access t-shirt.
“eIFL.net works to make intellectual outputs of developing and transitional countries more visible and more easily accessible,” added Rima Kupryte, Director of eIFL.net. “We believe that Open Access contributes to improved education, teaching, and research, and accelerates innovations and economical developments in these countries. Open Access Week is a great opportunity to promote Open Access globally.”
Read the Press Release about Open Access Week 2009.
From 2008:
Voices of Open Access Video series - six 1-minute videos from a teacher, funder, patient advocate, physician scientist, librarian, and a student about why Open Access matters to them.
Two webcasts from Sir Richard Roberts and Dr Phil Bourne.
Sir Richard Roberts, Ph.D., F.R.S.
Joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993 for discovering split genes and RNA splicing, one of 26 Nobel Prize Winners to sign the Open Letter to U.S. Congress in support of taxpayer access to publicly funded research, currently Chief Scientific Officer at New England Biolabs, US, and a member of the PLoS Biology Editorial Board.
Philip E. Bourne is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Computational Biology and the author of the popular PLoS Computational Biology ‘Ten Simple Rules Series‘. He is Professor in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San Diego, Associate Director of the RCSB Protein Data Bank, Senior Advisor to the San Diego Supercomputer Center, Adjunct Professor at the Burnham Institute, and Co-Founder of SciVee.
