Sample program tracks

This year, the organizers of Open Access Week will highlight the vast and growing number of high-quality resources available to support educational programs on Open Access. In partnership with OASIS and the Open Access Directory, we’ll highlight backgrounders, flyers, videos, podcasts, and Web sites that local organizers can use to customize the best possible OA Week events for their campuses.

We’re putting together a handful of sample program tracks that build on these resources, taking into account the audience, the right topic, and their awareness level, and invite you to:

a) give us feedback on whether this is useful to you and if not, how might we improve it?

b) let us know what resources we might have missed,

c) what other samples would be useful to you for us to develop.

Please send your feedback to Jennifer.

Of course there is a virtually unlimited number of potential discussion topics, so we’ll limit our samples to just ten.

Our advisers in the development of these sample program tracks are Kay Vyhnanek, Washington State University; Allyson Mower, University of Utah; Adrian Ho, University of Waterloo; and Marianne Buehler, Rochester Institute of Technology. (Thank you!!)

For a list of other program ideas, to see what others have done, or to share your experiences, please visit the Open Access Directory’s list of “Open Access Programming Guides”.

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Sample Track 1 - Author’s rights and author addenda

Audience:        Researchers
Awareness level:    Medium
Resources:

•    OVERVIEW
•    Author Addenda
•    Authors’ Rights and Copyright
•    CAUT Intellectual Property Advisory: Retaining Copyright in Journal Articles (For Canadian authors)

Suggested speakers (does not indicate commitment to participate):

•    Michael Carroll, visiting professor at the Washington College of Law, American University
•    Bill Hubbard, SHERPA
•    Local faculty advocate
•    IP librarian or repository manager
•    Also see OA speakers bureau

Sample Track 2 - Institutional Advantages from Open Access

Audience:        Administrators
Awareness level:    Low
Resources:

•    OVERVIEW
•    Institutions that support Open Access
•    FAQs about OA

Suggested speakers (does not indicate commitment to participate):

•    Stuart Shieber, Director, Office of Scholarly Communication, Harvard University
•    John Willinsky, Professor, Stanford University School of Education
•    Also see OA speakers bureau