Join the University of Derby and the University of Essex as we celebrate Open Access Week 2023!

In this talk, we are joined by Dr. Abeni Wickham, founder and CEO of SciFree, a new search tool for Open Access publishing, with the mission of working towards 100% Open Access and Open Science with/for Universities and researchers. Abeni will discuss how commercialization has almost become synonymous with predatory behaviour, particularly in relation to commercial scholarly publishing in the academy.

Abeni is an experienced scientist and mentor in Material Science/Molecular Physics and Regenerative Medicine and was previously a senior analyst/consultant for Californian-based biotech and skin care companies. Abeni successfully developed new materials for varying cornea, cardiac, skin and nerve regeneration strategies and also has colloidal chemistry experience tailored for the cosmetics industry.

Do sign up for this fascinating talk and find out more about SciFree. For more information about Open Access and Open Research, please see the University of Derby's Open Research SharePoint pages and the Library's information on Open Research at the University of Essex.

Join the University of Derby and the University of Essex as we celebrate Open Access Week 2023!

The Open Access book movement has seen considerable development in recent years with real benefits for society such as increased access and usage across all disciplines and across disadvantaged countries and continents. However, providing Open Access to books remains a challenge. So, what do we need to do as a community to address these challenges and provide access to all? Come along and ask the experts!

Join us for a lively panel discussion which will focus on Open Access publishing and long-form output types. During the session, we will hear from expert speakers who will discuss the traditional side of academic publishing in the scholarly monograph/book space and how this has evolved into a need for Open Access to fulfil the needs of the global research community and the public at large.

Panelists

Dr. David Barker - Senior Lecturer in Publishing, University of Derby.

Dr. Joe Deville - Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Science Studies, Department of Organisation, Work & Technology, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University. Joe is also the Principal Investigator on the Arcadia-funded research project, Open Book Futures.

Professor Jose Prados - Head of the School of Psychology, University of Derby.

Raluca Soreanu - Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies at the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex and psychoanalyst, member of the Círculo Psicanalítico do Rio de Janeiro.

For more information about Open Access and Open Research, please see the University of Derby's Open Research SharePoint pages and the Library's information on Open Research at the University of Essex.

Within the framework of Open Access Week 2023, the annual international initiative organised by SPARC in partnership with the Open Access Week Advisory Committee, the Open Science Commission and the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento are holding a conference to discuss the relationship between Open Science, Intellectual Property and Research Data. The event will be

attended by national and international scholars presenting their experiences to encourage discussion.

Join MIT Libraries and the MIT Press for an online panel with the editor of Imaging Neuroscience, a new open access journal that launched after editorial teams from two Elsevier journals left the publisher over disputes around the high cost for authors.

We’ll explore some of the benefits and challenges of moving a journal from a large, commercial publisher to a non-profit university press, and how the new journal better prioritizes the interests of this community.

The webinar is part of MIT's celebration of Open Access Week, whose theme this year asks us to think about what's lost when a shrinking number of corporations control knowledge production rather than researchers themselves.

Open access is a common end goal for many stakeholders in scholarly communications. But how will we get there? In this webinar, we'll hear about different approaches on how to get to open, from a library, publisher, funder and researcher perspective. In the end, we'll have a discussion about how we can get there together, as a community.

Open Educational Resources movement is rooted in accessible high-quality education and enables systematic change in teaching and learning content (https://oercommons.org/about). In this webinar, the audience will learn about two Open Educational Resources published by Aalto University researchers.

Circular Textiles (https://circulartextiles.aalto.fi/) Dr. Natalia Moreira from Aalto School of Arts, Design and Architecture will present about Circular Textiles, which is a platform to broaden circular knowledge and close industrial loops in the textile industry.

Introduction to Speech Processing Research (https://speechprocessingbook.aalto.fi/) Dr. Tom Backström from Aalto School of Electrical Engineering will present about Introduction to Speech Processing, which is an open collection of pedagogical material within the topic of speech and language technology.

Besides learning about the focus and scope of the above initiatives, the audience gets to learn about the experiences of Dr. Moreira and Dr. Backström when creating and maintaining these open educational resources.

Who can participate?

The webinar is aimed at staff and students who are interested in Open Educational Resources. No prior knowledge is required. Some information covered in the session, such as details of Aalto’s services, may be relevant only to those working at Aalto. The webinar is free and open to all.

Learning outcomes.

Learn about Circular Textiles and Introduction to Speech Processing OERs

Learn about Dr. Moreira’s and Dr. Backström’s experiences when creating and maintaining these OERs

Learn about Dr. Moreira’s and Dr. Backström’s needs and wishes regarding how universities’ research services could support the development of OERs

Format.

The session consists of two presentations followed by a Q&A.

Schedule and location

The training will be held online via Zoom on October 26, 2023, at 1.00-2.30 PM Eastern European Time (EET).

Lecturers

Dr. Natalia Moreira, Postdoc Researcher, School of Arts, Architecture and Design, Aalto University, natalia.moreira@aalto.fi

Dr. Tom Backström, Associate Professor, School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University, tom.backstrom@aalto.fi

Join the University of Derby and the University of Essex as we celebrate Open Access Week 2023!

In this talk, we are joined by Dr. Malvika Sharan, senior researcher and co-lead of The Turing Way project at The Alan Turing Institute. Malvika will discuss Open Science as a framework to ensure that all research components can be easily accessed, openly examined and built upon by others. She will introduce The Turing Way - an open source, open collaboration and community-driven guide to reproducible, ethical and inclusive data science and research. Drawing insights from the project, Malvika will share best practices that researchers should integrate to ensure the highest reproducible and ethical standards from the start of their projects so that their research work is easy to reuse and reproduce at all stages of the development. All attendees will leave the talk understanding the many dimensions of openness and how they can participate in an inclusive, kind and inspiring open-source ecosystem as they collaboratively seek to improve research culture. All questions and contributions are welcome at the GitHub repository: https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way.

As researchers, we make complex choices around project design and decisions throughout the lifecycle of our research. We are expected to ensure that our research objects are easily accessed, openly examined and built upon by others in future work. Although open and transparent reporting helps to make sure that scientific work can be trusted, we must also integrate considerations of the societal and ethical implications of our work. Especially when these considerations impact people's lives. Furthermore, reproducibility alongside Open Research practices are important for enabling independent verification of research methods, underlying data, analysis code and workflows. All these require an understanding of research best practices and skills that are often not widely taught or explored among academic researchers.

Presenter Biography

Malvika Sharan is a senior researcher and co-lead of The Turing Way project at The Alan Turing Institute which is an open-source community and guide for reproducible and collaborative data science. She involves and supports a diverse community of contributors - helping them adopt best practices in their research and collaborate within The Turing Way. She is a co-founder of Open Life Science, a mentoring and training programme that empowers researchers to integrate open science in the context of their communities. She is a Software Sustainability Institute fellow, a Society of RSE trustee, and an active contributor to open-source community initiatives including Code for Science and Society, NASA-TOPS, The Carpentries and MetaDocencia. She works towards enabling collaborative development approaches, embedding inclusive practices and supporting projects to enhance the diversity of marginalised members in research leadership.

Do sign up for this fascinating talk and to find out more about The Turing Way! For more information about Open Access and Open Research, please see the University of Derby's Open Research SharePoint pages and the Library's information on Open Research at the University of Essex.

Join the University of Derby and the University of Essex as we celebrate Open Access Week 2023!

Open Access publishing has come a long way in recent years, especially in the academic journal space, but has this now become the norm or is there still work to do to fully embrace the movement to ensure equitable access for all? What are the challenges that the global research community still faces and how can these be overcome? The resurgence of Green Open Access and Institutional Rights Retention policies allow authors and universities to take back some of the power from the large academic publishers, but does Green provide a sustainable future for Open Access, or should our efforts be more focused on Diamond Open Access?

Come along to this panel discussion which will focus on Open Access publishing and short-form output types. During the session, we will hear from expert speakers who will discuss their experiences of publishing Open Access, how Rights Retention empowers author choice, and where we might be headed for the future.

Panelist Biographies

Stephen Eglen - Professor of Computational Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Additional speakers are to be confirmed.

For more information about Open Access and Open Research, please see the University of Derby's Open Research SharePoint pages and the Library's information on Open Research at the University of Essex.

This session will cover some of the recent developments in academic publishing. The first part addresses publishing in Diamond Open Access journals. Diamond Open Access as a phenomenon, as well as various incentives related to Diamond Open Access publishing, are briefly introduced. In addition, the session outlines how Aalto University researchers have published in Diamond Open Access publication channels in recent years.

In the second part, we will discuss questions around authorship and ways in which various diverse contributions to research can be appropriately credited in published works. We will explore author contributor statements, discuss the CRediT Contributor Roles, as well as look at some tools that can help in agreeing on authorship.

Who can participate?

The webinar is aimed at staff and students who are interested in current developments in academic publishing, Diamond Open Access Journals, or preparing author contributor statements. The lecturers are from Aalto, but the training is openly available to anyone interested in the topic. The webinar is free of charge.

Format:

A 1.5-hour webinar including a Q&A discussion.

Schedule and location:

The training will be held online via Zoom on October 24, 2023, at 1.00–2.30 PM Eastern European Time (EET).

Lecturers:

Ms. Eeva Savolainen, Information Specialist, Research Services, Aalto University, eeva.savolainen@aalto.fi

Ms. Katri Seitsonen, Information Specialist, Research Services, Aalto University, katri.seitsonen@aalto.fi

Dr. Essi Viitanen, Senior Advisor, Data Agent, Research Services, Aalto University, essi.viitanen@aalto.fi