Open Access Week

Open Access Week, a global event now entering its fifth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research." — from http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/welcome-to-open-access-week

There are four events in the library related to open access week next week: a webcast on Monday 10/24, two talks on Tuesday 10/25, and a presentation on Friday 10/28. Please join us for all or some! We hope to sponsor some more open science/open access related programs throughout the fall, as well; please let me know if you have any suggestions for speakers or programs.

• Monday, October 24, 10:00am-1:00pm (see below for schedule)


• Shields Library LIR (2nd floor instruction room, to the left as you are going up the stairs)

This webcast, sponsored by the Physics-Astronomy-Math and Academic divisions of SLA, features John Wilbanks of Creative Commons, Heather Piwowar of DataONE/Dryad, and Molly Keener, Scholarly Communication Librarian at Wake Forest University. We've booked the LIR for the whole session; join us for all or part of this webcast.

Schedule and further details:
http://scitech.sla.org/2011/09/online-seminar-new-directions-in-scholarly-communication/

William Gunn, Head of Academic Outreach for Mendeley
Tuesday October 25, 11:00am-12:00pm
Shields Library Instruction Room (2nd floor)
William Gunn, Head of Academic outreach for Mendeley, will be talking about alternative metrics for research evaluation. How can individual researchers be evaluated using a broader suite of metrics than just impact factor, to a much more accurate metric of what the reseacher's personal impact has been - from citations to software to data to blogs and discussions. Increasingly, the process of finding research is mediated at some point by an algorithm that sifts through the mountains of data online to deliver to a searcher what they're looking for. Researchers need to know how to write for the "algorithmic audience" and to understand the multi-dimensional metrics that are increasingly used to find and assess research.

Gunn has a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from Tulane, and joined the Mendeley team in 2009 to do academic community outreach. (The kind of experiences Gunn had as a working scientist, and the kinds of problems that Mendeley is trying to solve, are summed up in this blog post: http://synthesis.williamgunn.org/2009/03/18/ive-joined-mendeley-as-community-liaison/).

William Gunn, Head of Academic Outreach at Mendeley
Tuesday October 25, 1:30pm-2:30pm
Room 1204, Medical Education Building, Sacramento Health Sciences Campus
The Blaisdell Medical Library is hosting a workshop on Mendeley, a free reference manager and academic social network. Led by William Gunn, Head of Academic Outreach at Mendeley, it will feature a 30-45 minute tutorial, with 15 minutes for questions and answers. Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops, and to come prepared with questions! If you do not already have Mendeley installed on your computer, you may do so from the following location: http://mendeley.com/download

Mendeley.com is a free, web-based reference manager platform that also enables you to annotate pdfs and to collaborate with other researchers by sharing references and forming groups. The social networking aspect of Mendeley and its ease of use make it a new kind of reference manager that is getting a lot of interest in scholarly communities.

Questions or to RSVP: contact Raquel Abad at rjabad@ucdavis.edu or 916.734.3870.

Jason Moore, Carl Boettiger, and Luke Peterson
Friday, October 28, 12:00pm-1:30pm – with lunch!
1127 Kemper Hall

Hear how UC Davis graduate students are making research more collaborative, blazing new trails on how data and scientific tools are shared, and opening up our research to the world. See how to use social networking tools to increase the impact of your work, and learn approaches that will give you an edge on your research. Find out more about the Davis Open Science group and their innovative approaches to science. Pizza will be provided! Questions or to RSVP: contact Carl Boettiger, cboettig@ucdavis.edu

All of these events are happening during Open Access Week (http://openaccessweek.org), which is Oct. 24-30 this year. Please help promote these events to your colleagues & departments. I have attached a flier with the full schedule of in-person events, or you can take a look at http://blogs.lib.ucdavis.edu/pse/2011/10/19/open-access-week-2011-events/

Open Access Week (http://openaccessweek.org) (October 18-22) is an international event promoting open access: the idea that scholarly research should be freely and openly available to all. For Open Access Week 2010, the UC Davis Libraries are sponsoring a speaker series featuring renowned experts in open access issues. Please join us for these free lectures about the future of scholarly communication. See http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/news/?item=23497 for further talk descriptions.

Questions? Please contact Phoebe Ayers, psayers@ucdavis.edu or 530-752-9948.

OA Week 2010 speakers

Catherine Mitchell and Patricia Cruse (California Digital Library)
"CDL Scholarly Publishing and Data Curation Services: Tools to Help You Manage Your Research at UC Davis"

• Monday, October 18, 10am-12pm


• Location: Shields Library, 2nd floor Library Instruction Room

Looking to expand the visibility of your work? Interested in reaching new communities with your research? Wondering how you are going to meet NSF's new data management requirement? Come learn about exciting initiatives coming out of the California Digital Library that can help you achieve all these goals and more. See: http://escholarship.org and http://merritt.cdlib.org

Dr. Jonathan Eisen (PLoS Biology, UCD Genomics)
"The what and why of 'Open Access' Publishing in Scientific Research"

• Thursday, October 21, 10am-11am


• Location: Shields Library, 1st floor Library Instruction Lab

Dr. Jonathan Eisen is an evolutionary biologist and genomics researcher at UC Davis, focused on microorganisms. Dr. Eisen is also an active blogger ( http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com ) and also the Academic Editor in Chief of PLoS Biology, one of the most pre-eminent open access journals. He will speak about PLoS and the importance of open access in scientific publication. See: http://www.plos.org

Marta Brunner (Open Humanities Press, UCLA Libraries)
"The Open Humanities Press and the Development of New Publishing Opportunities in the Humanities"

• Thursday, October 21, 1pm-3pm


• Location: 126 Voorhies

Marta Brunner shares her experience on the Steering Group at the Open Humanities Press (OHP), an international publishing collective in critical and cultural theory. Brunner, who is also a UCLA librarian, will discuss the opportunities and challenges Open Access models bring to humanities scholars in the context of the broader crisis in humanities publishing. See http://openhumanitiespress.org

John Wilbanks (Science Commons)
"The Unreasonable Impact of Open Access"

• Friday, October 22, 11am-12pm


• Location: Kemper Hall 1065

John Wilbanks is the head of the Science Commons project at Creative Commons, which aims to lower the barriers to research and sharing data and to develop tools to make open, web-based science easier. Wilbanks will talk about how free sharing of data and research helps improve scientific research, how open systems can improve quality measurement, and the impact of moving away from journal articles as the core form of knowledge transmission. See: http://www.sciencecommons.org

Check here for updates: http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/news/?item=23497