[cla-oa] Open Access Initiatives in Scholarly Communications
- From: Adrian Ho <adrian.ho@xxxxxx>
- To: OCUL-SCHOLCOMM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, REPOS-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, cla-oa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:56:16 -0500
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ALCTS e-Forum
Open Access Initiatives in Scholarly Communications: Getting your
University on Board
February 16-17, 2011
Hosted by Adrian Ho and Sarah Shreeves
Please join us for an e-forum discussion. It’s free and open to
everyone! Registration information is at the end of the message.
Each day, sessions begin and end at:
Pacific: 7am – 3pm
Mountain: 8am – 4pm
Central: 9am – 5pm
Eastern: 10am – 6pm
Libraries have used various strategies to engage with faculty, students,
and administrators around changes in the scholarly communication system.
Open access (OA) has become a popular topic and different initiatives
are built around it. These include launching institutional
repositories, creating OA publishing funds, working with faculty and
administrators to institute OA policies, and developing new OA journals
in collaboration with scholars and students. How do these initiatives
relate to libraries' mission and future roles in higher education? What
strategies are used to implement these initiatives and how well have
they worked? This ALCTS e-Forum will explore both how and why libraries
have chosen to invest resources to support OA initiatives. It will also
examine what strategies have been used and how successful they have
been. All are welcome to join us to review and discuss what has been
accomplished in libraries' OA endeavors.
Adrian Ho is Scholarly Communication Librarian at The University of
Western Ontario. With assistance of his colleagues, he networks with
different constituents on campus to explore avenues to open up scholarly
content for broader access. Before landing in London, Ontario for his
current job, Adrian worked in collection development and public services
at different institutions in the U.S. and Canada.
Sarah Shreeves is currently the Coordinator for the Illinois Digital
Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS), a set of
services and collections supporting scholarly communication (including
the institutional repository) at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. She is also the Coordinator for the Scholarly Commons,
a space for expert, interdisciplinary research support services and open
workshops for faculty and graduate students to develop skills in areas
such as digital content creation, e-learning and teaching, working with
digital repositories, curation of research data, understanding copyright
issues and author rights, and working with geospatial and numeric data.
*What is an e-forum?*
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matters of interest, led by a moderator, through the e-forum discussion
list. The e-forum discussion list works like an email listserv: register
your email address with the list, and then you will receive messages and
communicate with other participants through an email discussion. Most
e-forums last two to three days. Registration is necessary to
participate, but it's free. See a list of upcoming e-forums at:
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*To register:*
Instructions for registration are available at:
http://bit.ly/eforuminfo. Once you have registered for one e-forum, you
do not need to register again, unless you choose to leave the email
list. Participation is free and open to anyone.
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Adrian K. Ho
Scholarly Communication Librarian
The University of Western Ontario
(519) 661-2111 x87832 | adrian.ho@xxxxxx
http://www.lib.uwo.ca/
http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/
https://www.lib.uwo.ca/blogs/digitalscholarly/
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