Open Access at IgniteAlberta | Random Stuff that Matters

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-02-25

Summary:

Use the link to access the presentation discussed in the following blog post: "I was asked last minute to fill in for Nick Shockey of The Right to Research Coalition to give a talk about Open Access at IgniteAlberta in Edmonton. I spoke at a session about Open Access and OER, shared with Cable Green from Creative Commons who participated remotely. The conference was put together by the three student associations in Alberta to bring together student leaders, faculty, administrators and people from the province to discuss the future of Alberta’s higher education system. The sessions were a mix of large plenary presentations and smaller break-outs where everyone were seated around small round tables, and were much of the time was spent discussing in groups, and then summarizing back to the larger group. I really liked this way of organizing, and learnt a lot from the professors and students that I sat next to ... I’ve given many talks about Open Access, and when I am asked to speak, I usually remix slides from older slide decks, but it’s always a challenge to organize it in a few that will make sense to the audience, fit within the timeframe etc. This time, I only had about 20 minutes, and I wanted to convey both a basic understanding of what Open Access is, and some of the excitement that I feel for it. I came up with a basic framework of 'what, why, how', and think I was able to cover a lot of basics in the 20+ minutes, together with some neat examples, and updated news, such as [1] articles from the University of Toronto repository being accessed from Wikipedia articles (slide link) [2] an upcoming MOOC on aboriginal education from OISE, University of Toronto already has more than 20,000 learners signed up, and will incorporate Open Access publications [3] researchr – an open academic workflow, and making OA more visible [4] Nature Encode, making the information from a 'big science' project that resulted in more than 41 peer-reviewed articles more accessible, 'only possible with Open Access' [5] the great news from the White House about mandating Open Access for research funded by the government"

Link:

http://reganmian.net/blog/2013/02/23/open-access-at-ignitealberta/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

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Date tagged:

02/25/2013, 16:51

Date published:

02/25/2013, 11:51