Transitioning to Open Access: Action and Advocacy
From: Andrew Waller <waller_at_UCALGARY.CA>
(apologies for any duplicate messages)
Transitioning to Open Access: Action and Advocacy
Wednesday, July 11, 2007, 9:00 - noon
Earl and Jennie Lohn Floor Policy Room
Simon Fraser University - Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC
Canada
The Canadian Library Association's Task Force on Open Access warmly
invites you to join us, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic
Resources Coalition (SPARC), and the Canadian Association of Research
Libraries (CARL) for a presentation and discussion on transitioning to
open access. This is a pre-conference to the PKP Scholarly Publishing
Conference 2007 (http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/index.php)
Participants will learn about open access action and advocacy efforts
underway, learn more about open access and/or develop confidence in
their abilities to act as catalysts for open access, and develop a
network of colleagues with whom to share ideas and issues in your own
open access initiatives.
Presentation 9:00 - 10:30
Speakers:
Heather Joseph, SPARC
SPARC has been active in engaging in open access advocacy on the local
institutional, federal and international policy levels. SPARC’s
strategy is focused on reducing barriers to access, sharing and use of
scholarly information, and its highest priority is advancing the
understanding and implementation of open access to research results.
Heather will provide an update on SPARC’s recent advocacy activities
as well as a snapshot of the current open access policy climate.
Heather Morrison, CLA Task Force on Open Access
The Canadian Library Association adopted a Resolution on Open Access
in 2005. The mandate of the CLA Task Force on Open Access is to draft
recommendations on policy for CLA's own publications, draft a position
statement on open access for Canadian libraries on behalf of CLA, and
liaise with other library associations, such as CARL. Heather will
report on activities to date, such as drafted a response to the CIHR
Draft Policy on Access to Research Outputs, and planned.
Kathleen Shearer, CARL
Institutional repositories (IRs) are one of the major planks in the
strategy for achieving open access. In 2002, the Canadian Association
of Research Libraries launched an institutional repository project to
support their members in implementing IRs. Kathleen Shearer will
provide an overview of the project and discuss the opportunities and
challenges for research libraries in supporting the open access movement.
Break 10:30 - 11:00
Discussion Groups: 11:00 - 12:00
The morning's speakers will briefly join each of the discussion
groups, which will be led by members of the CLA's Open Task Force.
Depending on interests of participants, discussion group questions may
include:
What policy and advocacy initiatives could my library undertake to
promote open access to scholarly literature?
What policy and advocacy initiatives could the CLA and/or CARL
undertake to promote open access to scholarly literature?
Share successful initiatives (and failures) that have been undertaken
at your institution to promote open access/changes to the scholarly
communications system.
Registration is required. Registration is online, at
http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/registration.php
If you have already registered for the PKP conference, please register
again for the CLA preconference. The two registrations can be
combined into one single payment if desired.
CLA members: $40
non-members: $50
The website for Transitioning to Open Access: Action and Advocacy is
http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/cla-pre-conference.php.
Received on Tue Apr 03 2007 - 01:05:29 EDT