About Open UBC
Open UBC is held in conjunction with International Open Access Week, which encourages the academic community to come together to share and learn about open scholarship initiatives locally and worldwide. Open UBC showcases a week of diverse events highlighting areas of open scholarship that UBC’s researchers, faculty, students and staff participate in. These events include discussion forums, lectures, seminars, workshops, and symposia on topical and timely issues from every discipline. We invite everyone to participate either by organizing events, highlighting events already coinciding with the Week, or attending the events to be scheduled. All of these events are FREE and open to the public, students, faculty, staff and schools.
For more information about the event contact: ubc-oaweek@interchange.ubc.ca.
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Prof. Lesley Andres |
Dr. Lesley Andres is a Professor, in the Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia and Editor of Canadian Journal of Higher Education. Chair in International Comparative Studies in Social Sciences DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst/German Academic Exchange Service Bremen International School of Social Sciences University of Bremen, Germany, and Fellow, Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study), Delmenhorst, Germany (April–October 2010). Her research and teaching interests include the sociology of education, foundations of higher education, issues of inequality and access, transition across the life course research, and quantitative and qualitative research methods. Her research focuses on the intersecting domains of participation in post-secondary education, equality of educational opportunity, and the relationship between institutional structures and individuals as agents from an international comparative perspective. Her main research projects are the Paths on Life’s Way study, a 22-year longitudinal study of BC young adults and a related comparison with the Australian Life Patterns longitudinal study. |
Transitioning a journal to an open access business model: a Canadian perspective | Tuesday – October 25, 2011 – Session 2 | 11:00 AM to 11:55 AM |
Dr. Dhavide Aruliah |
 Dr. Dhavide Aruliah obtained his doctorate from the Department of Computer Science at UBC in 2001. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Fields Institute for Research in the Mathematical Sciences and at the University of Western Ontario. He has been at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (Oshawa, ON) since 2004 where he is currently an associate professor in the Faculty of Science. At present, he is a Visiting Professor in Department of Computer Science at UBC. His research interests are in scientific computing, specifically in computational inverse problems and the numerical solution of PDEs. He is also interested in software design for scientific computing, specifically in how scientists actually use scientific software.
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A Course on Reproducible Research in Computational and Data Science: What should it be? ** | Monday – October 24 – Session 1 | 3 – 4 PM |
Dr. Harry Brumer |
Dr. Harry Brumer is a Professor in the Michael Smith Laboratories and Department of Chemistry at UBC and holds a partial appointment as Professor in the School of Biotechnology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. |
Dr. Harry Brumer on Cazypedia | Thursday – October 27, 2011 – Session 8 | 1 – 3 PM |
Prof. Dwayne K. Buttler |
Dwayne K. Buttler, JD serves as the first Evelyn J. Schneider Endowed Chair for Scholarly Communication at the University of Louisville and holds a faculty appointment as a Professor in University Libraries. Much of his work focuses on the complex interrelationship of copyright law, licensing, and activities at the core of the university and library mission—teaching, learning, and scholarly communication. Professor Buttler earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis and holds a BA in Telecommunications from Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. Dwayne teaches mass communication law at UofL and leads numerous invited presentations on copyright and scholarly communication for administrators, faculty, librarians, and scholars in the library and the higher education communities. |
User Rights in Education – Comparative copyright laws in US & Canada | Wednesday – October 26, 2011 – Session 5 | 1:00 PM- 2:25 PM |
Ksenia Cheinman |
Ksenia Cheinman is a first year student at UBC’s School of Library, Archival & Information Studies. She holds a BA in Art History and French and an MA in French. As a career path, Ksenia is interested in academic librarianship, art librarianship and innovative outreach strategies. Her personal research focuses on the unique role of special libraries in arts and humanities. |
Blogging as Cataloging: Visibility, Accessibility and Possibility in Special Art Libraries | Wednesday – October 26, 2011 – Session 1 | 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM |
Mike Conroy |
Mike Conroy is a graduate of UBC’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies and has been involved in digitization efforts since 2009. Most recently Mike was project manager for the BC Historical Newspapers Project in his role as Digitization Projects Analyst, UBC Library |
Opening Up Worldwide Access to key BC Historical Documents: Chinese Canadian Stories, BC Historical Newspapers and more | Wednesday – October 26, 2011 – Session 2 | 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM |
Hilde Colenbrander |
Hilde Colenbrander has coordinated the cIRcle project since its inception as a small pilot project in the spring of 2007. cIRcle became a full service of the UBC Library in 2009, and the database currently contains approximately 36,700 items. Hilde has worked in the UBC Library system in many capacities, including as data librarian, distance education services librarian, acting head of the science and engineering library, and social sciences reference librarian. She has long been an advocate for open access to scholarly publications. She serves on the Provost’s Scholarly Communications Steering Committee, and has presented numerous papers on open access, on author rights, and on cIRcle. |
From Community Engagement to Global Access: Bringing UBC’s Knowledge to the World with cIRcle | Thursday – October 27, 2011 – Session 2 | 10:30AM – 11:25AM |
Will Engle |
Will Engle is a MLIS student at UBC’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies. He works for the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology at UBC, where he is focused on creating organizational and structural support for the UBC Wiki. |
Wikis, Blogs, and Websites: Leveraging Open Source Software to Support Teaching and Learning, Scholarly Communication, and Academic Collaboration | Thursday – October 27, 2011 – Session 3 | 11:30AM – 12:45 PM |
Dr. Paul Evans |
Dr. Paul Evans is the Director of the Institute of Asian Research and Professor, Liu Institute for Global Issues |
Prof. Paul Evans on Asia Pacific Memo | Thursday – October 27, 2011 | 1 – 3 PM |
Denise Fong |
Denise Fong joined the Library as the CHRP project manager in the summer of 2010. Now working under the umbrella of Digital Initiatives, she is responsible for managing the two-year interdisciplinary project Chinese Canadian Stories lead by UBC Library, SFU Library and over 20 other UBC departments and community partners. Before she joined the UBC CHRP team, Denise was the coordinator for another CHRP project From C to C produced by the SFU Teaching & Learning Centre about the Chinese Head Tax. CHRP stands for Community Historical Recognition Program, a grant offered by Citizenship and Immigration Canada to fund projects that recognizes and commemorates the historical experiences of ethnic communities affected by historical wartime measures and immigration restrictions. |
Opening Up Worldwide Access to key BC Historical Documents: Chinese Canadian Stories, BC Historical Newspapers and more | Wednesday – October 26, 2011 – Session 2 | 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM |
Sharon Hu |
Sharon Hu is the journal manager for the Canadian Journal of Higher Education. She manages the submission of manuscripts and reviews and handles communications among editors, authors and reviewers, as well as produces manuscript galleys for publication. |
Transitioning a journal to an open access business model: a Canadian perspective| Tuesday – October 25, 2011 – Session 2 | 11:00 AM to 11:55 AM |
Joy Kirchner |
 Joy Kirchner is the Scholarly Communications Coordinator at University of British Columbia, a role which involves identifying recommended and sustainable service models to support scholarly communication activities on the campus. Joy is a member of UBC’s Copyright Advisory Group and a member of the Provost’s campus-wide Scholarly Communications Steering Committee. She is the point person for open access, copyright and author rights queries on campus and is responsible for formalized discussion and education of these issues with faculty, research and publishing constituencies on the UBC campus. Joy writes and presents widely on author rights, copyright and open access. She also sits on a number of publishing advisory boards, is a faculty member with the ARL/ACRL/ Institute for Scholarly Communication and is a Visiting Program Officer for the Association of College and Research Libraries(ACRL) where she provides coordination for ACRL’s Scholarly Communications 101 workshop program. |
Copyright and the Classroom: Open Scholarship Solutions to Support Classroom Use of Material | Thursday Oct. 27, 2011 – Session 1 | 9:00 – 9:55 AM |
Mimi Lam |
Mimi Lam joined the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre as Community Digitization Librarian in 2010. She is a graduate of the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS) at UBC and has worked in various special libraries before joining UBC Library. Prior to IKBLC, Mimi was a Digital Librarian at the Union of BC Indian Chiefs Resource Centre. She has extensive experience working on digitization projects and managing digital collections. |
Opening Up Worldwide Access to key BC Historical Documents: Chinese Canadian Stories, BC Historical Newspapers and more | Wednesday – October 26, 2011 – Session 2 | 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM |
Jennifer Lin |
Jennifer Lin is the product manager at Public Library of Science. She is passionate about open access and its political and social impacts. As a former business consultant, she worked with Fortune 500 companies as well as governments to develop and deploy new products and services. Jennifer received her Ph.D. in political philosophy and has served as an instructor at Johns Hopkins University. |
Leading the next frontier of OA: Filtering, Aggregating, and Evaluating Research Content | Tuesday – October 25, 2011 – Session 4 |
Duncan McHugh |
Duncan McHugh is the Multimedia Developer at UBC’s Faculty of Land and Food Systems, where he teaches and supports new media technology. He has led the faculty’s Creative Commons initiatives since 2006. He also volunteers at CiTR 101.9FM, UBC’s radio station. |
Getting Started with Creative Commons | Wednesday – October 26, 2011 – Session 4 | 12:00 PM- 12:55 PM |
Evelyn McLellan |
Evelyn McLellan is a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s Master of Archival Studies program (1997) and has over 10 years experience as an archivist and records information analyst at a number of organizations including the City of Vancouver Archives and the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia. As Systems analyst and consultant on Artefactual’s digital preservation projects, Evelyn provides end-user support, user documentation, quality assurance testing and system requirements management for Artefactual’s Archivematica project. |
Open source solutions for archival collections | Wednesday – October 26, 2011 – Session 7 | 3:30 – 4:30 PM |
Scott McMillan |
Scott McMillan administers and does backend development for UBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology’s CMS, Blogs and Wiki projects. He also assists in testing out new technologies for CTLT. |
Wikis, Blogs, and Websites: Leveraging Open Source Software to Support Teaching and Learning, Scholarly Communication, and Academic Collaboration | Thursday – October 27, 2011 – Session 3 | 11:30AM – 12:45 PM |
Dr. Erin Michalak |
Dr. Erin Michalak is an Assistant Professor in the Mood Disorders Centre in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of British Columbia and the Crestbd team leader. |
Dr. Erin Michalak on Stigma and Biopolar Disorder: Moving Knowledge to Action| Thursday – October 27, 2011 | 1 – 3 PM |
Dr. Ian M. Mitchell |
 Dr. Ian M. Mitchell completed his doctoral work in engineering at Stanford University in 2002, spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Berkeley and is now an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. His research interests include scientific computing, cyber-physical systems, formal methods for verification robotics and reproducible research. |
A Course on Reproducible Research in Computational and Data Science: What should it be? ** | Monday – October 24 – Session 1 | 3 – 4 PM |
Dr. Anne-Marie Nicol |
Assistant Professor, UBC School of Environmental Health
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Prof. Anne-Marie Nicol on Wash With Care| Thursday – October 27, 2011 | 1 – 3 PM |
Martha Rans |
Martha Ransis Vancouver Project Lead for Creative Commons Canada. A true believer in giving to the community and a passionate advocate for the arts, Martha Rans has been practicing law since 1995 and has acted for artists in all disciplines including painting, photography, architecture, sculpture, textile, film and video, new media, animation, website and graphic design, theatre and dance. She regularly advises arts-related and other not-for-profit organizations on a wide range of legal issues including intellectual property, employment, labour, health & safety and privacy. In 2005, she created the Artists’ Legal Outreach: run entirely by volunteers, it ensures access to legal information and advice for artists and arts organizations. She is the Vancouver Project Lead for Creative Commons Canada, a sessional professor at Emily Car University and YWCA Women of Distinction Award nominee. |
Martha Rans on Copyright and Artists | Wednesday – October 26, 2011 – Session 6 | 2:30 PM – 3:25 PM |
Dr. Rosie Redfield |
Dr. Rosemary (Rosie) Redfield is a Professor in the Department of Zoology and heads the Redfield Lab |
Dr. Rosie Redfield on Open Science and her own Open Science blog RRResearch |Thursday – October 27, 2011 | 1 – 3 PM |
Novac Rogic |
Novak Rogic is UBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology’s Web Strategist. He leads web projects that emphasize content sharing and republishing. |
Wikis, Blogs, and Websites: Leveraging Open Source Software to Support Teaching and Learning, Scholarly Communication, and Academic Collaboration | Thursday – October 27, 2011 – Session 3 | 11:30AM – 12:45 PM |
Sarah Romkey |
 Sarah Romkey graduated from University of British Columbia’s joint Masters in Archival Studies and Masters in Library and Information Studies program in 2008. She has since that time worked in UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections division initially as the Librarian and Archivist for the Chung Collection and since 2009 as the Rare Books and Special Collections Archivist. Sarah is responsible in this role for acquiring, providing access to and preserving the archives of individuals and organizations external to UBC. |
Open source solutions for archival collections | Wednesday – October 26, 2011 – Session 7 | 3:30 – 4:30 PM |
Dr. David S. H. Rosenthal
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Dr. David S. H. Rosenthal is the Chief Scientist of the LOCKSS Program at the Stanford University Libraries. He has been working on engineering aspects of digital preservation systems, including threats, defenses and economics since 1998. Before that his career included Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and Chief Scientist and employee #4 at Nvidia. |
KEYNOTE – How about “What Problems Are We Trying TO Fix?” | Tuesday – October 25, 2011 – Session 3 | 12:00 PM to 1:20 PMCOPPUL Sponsored Event * Event is live webcasted to COPPUL Libraries |
Paul Stacey |
Paul Stacey is the Director of Communications, Stakeholder and Academic Relations at BCcampus. Headquartered in Vancouver, BCcampus provides services in support of educational technology and online learning to British Columbia’s 25 public colleges and universities, their students, faculty and administrators. With funding support from the BC Ministry of Advanced Education BCcampus has been providing online curricula development grants to BC post secondary institutions since 2003. The curricula produced through these grants have the dual purpose of producing academic for credit offerings to students and creating curricula freely available for sharing and reuse by others as Open Educational Resources. |
Opening Up Education – Creative Alternatives to Access Copyright | Tuesday – October 25, 2011 – Session 1 | 9:30 AM to 10:55 AM |
Tara Stephens |
Tara Stephens first joined cIRcle as the 2010 Olympics and Paralympics Project Librarian in October 2009 working with the UBC community and its partners to capture and disseminate UBC’s unique contribution to the 2010 Winter Games legacy. In her current role as the cIRcle Librarian, Tara manages multiple projects that support the open access and community engagement initiatives of the repository, the Library and the university as a whole. Many of these projects served as examples of successful collaborative models for her poster at the recent the World Library and Information Congress (IFLA). |
From Community Engagement to Global Access: Bringing UBC’s Knowledge to the World with cIRcle | Thursday – October 27, 2011 – Session 2 | 10:30AM – 11:25AM |
Julia Thompson |
Julia Thompson has been providing operational support to the cIRcle Coordinator and assistance in the acquisition of cIRcle materials from the UBC community (faculty, staff, and students) since 2008. She instructs new cIRcle users on how to deposit their materials to cIRcle while ensuring compliance with cIRcle policies. Her administrative and technical cIRcle support helps the UBC community to capture, preserve, and showcase their materials to the global scholarly community and beyond. |
From Community Engagement to Global Access: Bringing UBC’s Knowledge to the World with cIRcle | Thursday – October 27, 2011 – Session 2 | 10:30AM – 11:25AM |
Wim van der Stelt |
Wim van der Stelt started his career in 1987 with a major chain of scientific booksellers (Wolters Kluwer Academic Book Shops) in the Netherlands, developing the direct marketing activities. He followed this up with a stint in marketing at Samson H.D. Tjeenk Willink from 1991 to 1996.He then rejoined Wolters Kluwer as Editorial Director for the Dutch-language legal and tax publishing activities and then moving on to the company’s pan-European tax and legal portal initiatives. In 2004, he joined Springer, one of the world’s leading scientific publishing houses, as VP Global Marketing. Since 2007, he has been EVP, Corporate Strategy and Business Development at Springer Science+Business Media, a position which includes the management and further development of all of Springer’s open access initiatives. |
Why Springer Moved to OA? | Tuesday – October 25, 2011 – Session 5 |
Dr. Wasserman |
Dr. Wasserman is a Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia and Senior Scientist, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Child and Family Research Institute. |
Dr. Wyeth W. Wasserman and Dimas Yusuf on Transcription Factor Encyclopedia (TFe) ) – Winner of the 2011 Innovative Dissemination of Research Award |Thursday – October 27, 2011 | 1 – 3 PM |
Bonnie Wen |
Bonnie Wen, MLIS candidate UBC School of Library, Archival & Information StudiesBonnie Wen is a full-time MLIS student and part-time student librarian in the Education Library at UBC. Rather than picturing herself as a traditional librarian, she has been trying to position her future career as an information architect. Before entering into the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at UBC, she had been teaching in China for three years. In 2009, she was conferred a Masters’ Degree of Education at UBC. |
Investigations into Open Peer Review Models | Thursday – October 27, 2011 – Session 1 | 10:00 AM – 10:20 AM |
Reilly Yeo |
Reilly Yeo is the Managing Director of OpenMedia.ca. Reilly is an organizer, facilitator and online communications consultant with ten years experience in the not-for-profit sector. She has a diverse professional background that includes work with Amnesty International, The Walrus magazine, and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Reilly led the organizing team for the first Vancouver ChangeCamp, and facilitated cross-country in-person and online dialogues with the Canada’s World project at the SFU Centre for Dialogue. Reilly has an MA in comparative politics from McGill University and is currently combining her not-for-profit work with an academic career in literature and political theory. She is a specialist in online communications on complex issues. |
KEYNOTE – Opening the Possibilities of the Internet: OpenMedia.ca’s Transformative Campaigns and the University Community | Wednesday – October 26, 2011 – Session 3 | 11:00 AM – 11:55 AMCOPPUL Sponsored Event * Event is live webcasted to COPPUL Libraries |
Dimas Yusuf |
 Dimas Yusuf is a third-year UBC Medical Student |
Dr. Wyeth W. Wasserman and Dimas Yusuf on Transcription Factor Encyclopedia (TFe) ) – Winner of the 2011 Innovative Dissemination of Research Award | Thursday – October 27, 2011 | 1 – 3 PM |
