OA events
Open Access, from CARL and McGill U
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries, in partnership with McGill University Library produced a one minute animated video explaining the concept of open access to students and faculty in a simple and fun format. The video is available for free and is licensed under a Creative Commons license.
Open Access 101, from SPARC
An animated video explaining open access to research and why it's important.
A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access
Open Access Discussion Series at UVic Libraries; Webcasts at other Canadian institutions
When: October 5, 2012, 9:30-11:30am
Where: Archived Webcast
Topic: Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy
Speaker: Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Scholarly Communication, Modern Language Association; Profession of Media Studies (on leave), Pomona College
Abstract: Academic institutions are facing a crisis in scholarly publishing at multiple levels: presses are stressed as never before, library budgets are squeezed, faculty are having difficulty publishing their work, and promotion and tenure committees are facing a range of new ways of working without a clear sense of how to understand and evaluate them. Planned Obsolescence is both a provocation to think more broadly about the academy's future and an argument for re-conceiving that future in more communally-oriented ways. Facing these issues head-on, Kathleen Fitzpatrick focuses on the technological changes-- especially greater utilization of internet publication technologies, including digital archives, social networking tools, and multimedia--necessary to allow academic publishing to thrive into the future. But she goes further, insisting that the key issues that must be addressed are social and institutional in origin. Confronting a change-averse academy, she insists that before we can successfully change the systems through which we disseminate research, scholars must re-evaluate their ways of working--how they research, write, and review--while administrators must reconsider the purposes of publishing and the role it plays within the university. Springing from original research as well as Fitzpatrick's own hands-on experiments in new modes of scholarly communication through MediaCommons, the digital scholarly network she co-founded, her talk explores all of these aspects of scholarly work, as well as issues surrounding the preservation of digital scholarship and the place of publishing within the structure of the contemporary university.
About the Speaker: Kathleen is the author of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, which was published by NYU Press in November 2011; Planned Obsolescencewas released in draft form for open peer review in fall 2009. She is also the author of The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television, published in 2006 by Vanderbilt University Press (and of course available in print, and she is co-founder of the digital scholarly network MediaCommons. She has published articles and notes in journals including the Journal of Electronic Publishing, PMLA, Contemporary Literature, and Cinema Journal.