Open Access Week 2012: Looking back at five years of OA talks | Random Stuff that Matters

Use the link to access a series of presentations given during past OA Week events introduced as follows:  "This week is not only the last debate of the US Presidential election, but it’s the international Open Access Week, now in its sixth year (initially I think it was only a day). I’ve usually been quite an active participant, but this year I’m not giving any major presentations (I’ll probably participate in a panel next week though). There are a number of events both at University of Toronto, York University and Ryerson University (OCAD University needs to up its game next year!). I won’t be able to participate in either, but two events caught my attention: Talks on open data from the Map & Data Library at the University of Toronto, and 'The Great Debate: Should the blog replace the book?' at York University. I hope this latter event is recorded, I always enjoy a good debate, and too often, Open Access Week events tend to be fairly “one-sided”. (The only challenge with that event is that academics already confuse Open Access with blogging and writing for Wikipedia, which, while very valuable activities, are not strictly what we mean when asking authors to support Open Access). I thought I’d go through and link to some of my past presentations on Open Access, many of them done during past Open Access Weeks, since they are mostly quite relevant still. All have slides, many have embedded audio, and some have notes as well..."