The 2020 Open Access Week theme for this year’s International Open Access Week, to be held October 19-25, will be “Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion.”
More information: http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/2020-theme-announcement-english
On this page, we have listed out Open Access events happening in academic libraries across the country (including a few of our own!). All events are free, though some do require that you register. This is by no means a comprehensive list of what events are happening in the States, not to mention the rest of the world! If you have any questions about events or open access in general, please contact alexa.hight@tamucc.edu
Have you seen Paywall: The Business of Scholarship? Do you have thoughts? Please join us on Thursday, October 22 at 2:00 PM to discuss this film with the Library's Dean Rudowsky.
If you haven't seen the film yet, please take some time before Thursday the 22 to watch! This is an open access movie, so anyone with the internet can watch it!
Monday, October 19, 11:00 - 11:45 AM CT / 12:00-12:45 ET
From Kennesaw State University
Tune in as members from Affordable Learning Georgia discuss the intersection of Open Access and Open Educational Resources (OERs).
Monday, October 19, 2020 3:00-4:00 CT / 4:00-5:00 ET
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://cornell.zoom.us/j/96298749236?pwd=RFNYRW4vNWduUzR5aE1iTFZjRDFZZz09
Webinar ID: 962 9874 9236
Passcode: 954076
From Cornell University
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, researchers across disciplines and around the world rushed to study the virus, the disease, transmission, and treatment. Open access research sharing platforms, also known as preprint servers, provided the ideal format for scientists to share their findings quickly with their peers.
At this online event, open access leaders will discuss the pandemic’s impact on these research sharing resources. This crisis has revealed the importance of open access and rapid distribution of results. At the same time, it has uncovered challenges faced by this form of scholarly communication, and the strength of the community when developing innovative solutions.
Panelists:
Eleonora Presani, Executive Director, arXiv, Cornell University
John Inglis, Co-founder of bioRxiv and medRxiv and Executive Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Sebastian Kohlmeier, CORD-19 Project Manager and Senior Manager, Semantic Scholar, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Attendees may send questions in advance to membership@arXiv.org.
Monday October 19, 5:00pm - 7:00pm CT | Register here!
From Virginia Tech University
The Open Access Week kickoff event will feature a brief introduction to open access and its benefits and controversies, followed by a discussion with diverse panelists and the audience. Featured panelists include:
Tuesday October 20, 9:00am - 10:30am CT | Register here!
From Virginia Tech University
Elizabeth Gadd, Loughborough University, UK
What we reward through recruitment, promotion and tenure processes is not always what we actually value about research activity. This talk will explore how we can pursue value-led evaluations - and how we can persuade senior leaders of their benefits.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Gadd is a scholarly communications specialist working as a Research Policy Manager (Publications) at Loughborough University, UK. She chairs the INORMS Research Evaluation Working Group, the ARMA Research Evaluation SIG and the LIS-Bibliometrics Forum. She founded The Bibliomagician Blog & was the recipient of the 2020 INORMS Award for Excellence in Research Management Leadership.
She has spent most of her career in libraries and doing research into the rights issues relating to the scholarly activities of UK HE. These include the Jisc-funded ACORN, Rights & Rewards, and RoMEO Projects, the latter of which gave rise to the RoMEO service. She has a PhD on the impact of copyright ownership on scholarly communication and blogs regularly on responsible research evaluation, copyright and open access issues. Elizabeth is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
The Keynote will be followed by a panel discussion featuring the following panelists:
Tuesday, October 20 11:00-11:30 AM CT / 10-:00-10:30 MT
Registration is required. Zoom information will be sent in the reminder email.
From University of Colorado, Boulder
Over the course of the last several years, university presses have experimented in a variety of ways with OA book publishing. Programs such as Knowledge Unlatched, TOME, and NEH/Mellon's backlist digitization initiative have provided the financial resources to underwrite experimentation. Darrin Pratt, director of University Press of Colorado, will discuss his own press's OA results and offer his perspective on the future of OA in book publishing.
Tuesday, October 20, 11:00 -11:45 AM CT / 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM ET
In this informative session, Resource Sharing Librarian Rosemary Humphrey will provide you with the knowledge you need to find open access articles.
Tuesday, October 20 3:00 to 4:00 PM CT
WebEx Link: bit.ly/OAWorkshop2020
Hosted by TAMU-CC
What is Open Access? Why is it important? And how can TAMU-CC help you contribute? Scholarly Communications Librarian, Alexa Hight, will discuss the importance of open access and how to make the most of the Open Access Fund, an initiative to promote open publishing across campus.
Wednesday, October 21, 11:00 - 11:45 AM CT / 12:00-12:45 PM ET
From Kennesaw State University
Listen as Dr. Evans, the Dean of Library Services, explains the Faculty Subvention Fund application process and how this funding impacts the research landscape.
Thursday October 22, 9:00am - 2:00pm CT | Register here!
From Virginia Tech University
Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) is hosting their annual stakeholder meeting during Open Access Week. TOME brings together scholars, universities, libraries, and presses in pursuit of a common goal—a sustainable open monograph ecosystem. TOME launched in 2018 as a five-year pilot initiative of the Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and Association of University Presses (AUPresses). The stakeholder meeting will review TOME’s progress to date and to chart a path forward. The day will feature three main sessions:
Author Perspectives (9:00-10:00 a.m. CT /10:00–11:30 a.m. ET): Roundtable featuring faculty authors sharing their experiences with open access and their thoughts on the future of OA monographs in their disciplines.
Where Are We Now? (12:00-2:00 p.m. CT /1:00–3:00 p.m. ET): This session will include a progress report on TOME along with reports from other related initiatives, including the Pilot Data Trust for Open Access eBook Usage (OAeBU), Project MUSE, and more.
Thursday, October 22 9:00 - 10:00 AM CT / 10:00-11:00 ET
Registration is required with limited availability.
This event is sponsored by Duke University Press in collaboration with the Duke University Libraries and ScholarWorks: A Center for Scholarly Publishing.
Openly available scholarship may be a clear destination, but the paths to get there are varied and complex. This roundtable of editors, publishers, and university administrators will discuss their experiences with financial models for open-access journal publishing: author-pays, single-funder, multiple-funders, library-supported, etc. The panelists will offer an assessment of the pros and cons of different models and their thoughts on the long-term sustainability of Open Access for journals. Which models hold the most promise? What obstacles keep the panelists up at night? How can the various players within the scholarly communications ecosystem--researchers, editors, publishers, publishing services, libraries, funders, and university administration--work together more effectively?
Moderator: Leslie Eager, Director of Publishing Services, Project Euclid
Speakers:
Robert Dilworth, Journals Director, Duke University Press
Meredith Lynn Goldsmith, Professor of English and Associate Dean at Ursinus College
Dolly Jørgensen, Editor, Environmental Humanities and Professor of History, University of Stavanger, Norway
Marcel LaFlamme, Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft (LBG) Open Innovation in Science Center in Vienna, Austria
Thursday, October 22, 2020 10:00-11:00 AM CT / 11:00-12:00 ET
From Cornell University
Interest in Open Educational Resources (OER) is growing nationally as higher education institutions’ budgets tighten and the costs of academic materials rise. This will be a conversation between OER Librarians about their work and the purpose of OER.
Attendees will receive a background on what OER is and how it removes barriers of access to educational materials for students. The librarians will discuss their experiences working with faculty at different universities and why OER is important.
Panelists:
Stacy Katz, Open Resources Librarian-STEM Liaison, CUNY Lehman
Regina Gong, OER and Student Success Librarian, Michigan State University
Amanda Larson, Affordable Learning Instructional Consultant, The Ohio State University
Dial-In Information
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://cornell.zoom.us/j/99102176166?pwd=L0pYSDBaa09FR2s0M2ZkWVVqTFdTUT09
Webinar ID: 991 0217 6166
Passcode: 290072
Thursday, October 22, 11:00 - 11:45 AM CT / 12:00-12:45 PM ET
From Kennesaw State University
Panelists from KSU's library department will describe their experiences while using open access resources in instruction and research.
2:00 to 3:00 PM CT - Event via WebEx
TAMU-CC is hosting:
Have you watched the film Paywall: The Business of Scholarship? Still have questions about Elsevier, or Open Access? Join Mary and Jeff Bell Library's Dean Catherine Rudowsky to lead a discussion. Additionally, if you have questions regarding The Texas Coalition for United Action, please join us!
If you haven't yet seen Paywall: The Business of Scholarship, please watch leading up to the event!
WebEx Information:
Meeting number: 133 118 5721
Password: OAWeek2020 (62933520 from phones)
https://tamucc.webex.com/tamucc/j.php?MTID=m923c7f95d15f3454eb4ef2b43df49afa
Join by video system
Dial 1331185721@tamucc.webex.com
You can also dial 173.243.2.68 and enter your meeting number.
Join by phone
1-877-668-4493 Call-in toll free number (US/Canada)
1-650-479-3208 Call-in toll number (US/Canada)
Access code: 133 118 5721
Thursday, October 22 3:00-3:30 CT / 2:00-2:30 MT
Registration is required. Zoom information will be sent in the reminder email.
From University of Colorado, Boulder
Open Access doesn’t just apply to journals. It touches all aspects of knowledge sharing throughout the research life cycle, regardless of the work’s format. This session will feature two professors who engage in open scholarship by publishing their work using nontraditional publishing methods.
Friday October 23, 10:00am - 11:00am CT | Register here!
From Virginia Tech University
The 2020-2021 Open Education: Student Success and Faculty Autonomy webinar series hosted by SCHEV-OVAC provides a space for learning and sharing to spark innovation and expand open education in Virginia. The virtual conversations will consist of short lightning talks, which will allow institutions to share their open education efforts and learn from similar efforts happening around Virginia.
Friday, October 23 | 11-1 AM / 12 - 1pm ET
From the Thomas Jefferson University
Friday, October 23 2:00-3:00 CT / 1:00-2:00 MT
Registration is required. Zoom information will be sent in the reminder email.
From University of Colorado, Boulder
This hour-long panel brings together researchers from across campus to discuss their experiences with open access research and publishing. Panelists will discuss the values of open research, policy, and education, the importance of openness to expanding equity and social justice, changing modes and methods of research and publishing, and will offer concrete advice on how to pursue open access research and publication.
