accaric February 5, 2007
9:00 to 9:30 coffee and registration
9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall, University of Winnipeg
Parking Information

Registration is free for University of Winnipeg faculty and staff, and the academic community in Manitoba.

Image:Open-access-symposium-poster.pdf

Contents 1 Open Access: Not one size fits all 1.1 Opening: 9:30 to 10:00 1.2 University of Winnipeg Open Access Journals: 10:00 to 11:00 1.2.1 Not just journals 1.3 View from a Publisher: 11:00 to 11:45 1.4 Author's Perspective: 11:45 to 12:15 1.5 Lunch (included): 12:15 to 12:45 1.6 Institutional Repositories: Hope or Failure? 12:45 to 1:30 1.7 eCommons: Institutional Repository at the University of Winnipeg: 1:30 to 2:00 1.8 Discovery Tools: 2:00 to 2:45 1.9 Wrap-up and Parking Lot: 2:45 to 3:00 1.10 Resources

[edit] Open Access: Not one size fits all

The symposium will explore the implications of the open access model of publishing on scholarly communication, including: what open access initiatives already exist on campus, discovery tools, the place of institutional repositories and the implications of new policies from granting agencies.

[edit] Opening: 9:30 to 10:00

Opening remarks by:

• Dr. Claudia Wright, Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies
• Karen Hunt, Acting University Librarian
  • Open access, from the naive view to the mixture of models we have today (Gold or Green?)

Presentation: Image:Open access symposium.pdf

[edit] University of Winnipeg Open Access Journals: 10:00 to 11:00

What is the University doing to support open access models of publishing? What should we be doing?

Overview of journals being published at the University of Winnipeg.

• Benjamin Lefebvre, CCL/LCJ: Canadian Children's Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse
• Journal of Mennonite Studies
• Barry Edginton, Associate Editor, Canadian Bulletin of Medical History
• The Canadian Oral History Forum
• Ancient History Bulletin

Models, software, work-flow, partnerships, lessons learned.

• Why did you decide to go this route
• what are the financial implications of this decision (that you are prepared to share with the audience)
• do you think that contributors to scientific Open Access journals will continue to be willing to pay submission fees
• what response have you had from major database providers or indexing sources about their willingness

to index or abstract the articles in your journal

[edit] Not just journals

Other forms of open scholarly communication.

• Chris Leo, author of Christopher Leo: Research-based analysis and commentary

Canadian Children's Literature

• will use OJS (Open Journal Systems) as the content management system

Journal of Mennonite Studies

• Library is starting to scan back issues (except for current year, will be freely available
• Will be available on Plone

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History

• using GNU EPrints

The Canadian Oral History Forum

• using Plone

Ancient History Bulletin

[edit] View from a Publisher: 11:00 to 11:45

• Jason Charron, MBA ,Business Manager, National Research Council Canada, Research Press
  

Presentation: From the (not so) Dark Side of the Force (.pdf)

[edit] Author's Perspective: 11:45 to 12:15

• Leslie Chan, Program Supervisor for the Joint Program in New Media Studies and the International Studies program at the University of Toronto at Scarborough, and co-author of "Study of the Feasibility of Open-Access Publishing for Journals and Transfer Journals Programme" (Dr. Chan will be speaking virtually with video)
  

Presentation: Feasibility of Open Access for SSHRC supported journals (.ppt)

Recommendations in the report include:

• SSHRC should also encourage open source solutions and provide guides to them;
• Regarding authors: SSHRC should strongly request all scholars whose research has been funded by SSHRC to self-archive their papers in suitable institutional repositories'
• SSHRC should educate authors about retaining their rights, in particular by pointing out tools such as the author's addendum promoted by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) or the various licensing options provided by Creative Commons

[edit] Lunch (included): 12:15 to 12:45

[edit] Institutional Repositories: Hope or Failure? 12:45 to 1:30

• Rea Devakos, T-Space Service Co-ordinator, University of Toronto Libraries (Rea will be speaking virtually)
  

Presentation: Institutional Repositories: Hope or Failure? (.ppt)

[edit] eCommons: Institutional Repository at the University of Winnipeg: 1:30 to 2:00

• Karen Hunt, Acting University Librarian
• eCommons

[edit] Discovery Tools: 2:00 to 2:45

• Sherri Vokey, Reference and Web Services Librarian, University of Winnipeg
• DOAJ, Google Scholar

[edit] Wrap-up and Parking Lot: 2:45 to 3:00

What are the lingering questions and concerns? What needs to be done and who will do it?

Karen Hunt Acting University Librarian k.hunt@uwinnipeg.ca 204-786-9801

[edit] Resources

Karen's Open Access Bookmarks at Diigo
Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals Harnad and Brody, D-Lib Magazine, June 2004
Project RoMEO
Open Access Reshaping Rules of Research Michael Geist