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October 4 |
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Kathleen FitzpatrickDirector of Scholarly Communication, Modern Language Association; Professor of Media Studies (on leave), Pomona College. |
Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology and the Future of the AcademyAcademic institutions are facing a crisis in scholarly publishing: presses are stressed, library budgets are squeezed, faculty are having difficulty publishing their work, and promotion and tenure committees face new ways of working. Planned Obsolescence is a provocation to think more broadly about the academy’s future, and an argument for re-conceiving that future in more communal ways. 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. But she goes further, insisting that the key issues are social and institutional. Confronting a change-averse academy, she insists that before we can successfully change the systems that disseminate our research, scholars must re-evaluate their ways of working – how they research, write and review – while administrators must reconsider the purposes of publishing and its role within the university. Springing from original research as well as Fitzpatrick’s own experiments in new modes of scholarly communication through MediaCommons – the digital scholarly network she co-founded – her talk explores all these aspects of scholarly work, as well as issues surrounding the preservation of digital scholarship and the place of publishing within the contemporary university. . |
October 23 |
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Provost’s Forum:Barbara SobolLearning Services Librarian Peter ArthurDirector, Centre for Teaching and Learning Lawrence BergProfessor, Barber School of Arts and Sciences, Unit 1 |
Provost’s Forum: Open Access and the Democratization of Knowledge*Open access provides faculty, students and global communities with unrestricted, online access to quality scholarly publications, learning environments and educational resources. This panel will provide insight into how the open access movement is democratizing access to scholarly publications and transforming higher education. *This event is held on the UBC Okanagan campus |
October 31 |
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Dieter SteinProfessor of English Language and Linguistics at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (Germany). |
Open access: effects and consequences in the management of scientific discourse.Open access has a number of effects on scientific discourse, some of which are only now becoming visible. A prominent effect of open access is the abolishment of the border between research inputs and outputs, transforming the process of scholarly inquiry. The creation and availability of data and finished research products tend to be more and more collapsed into one permanent flow of information, without fixed boundaries between a dynamic research process and a static notion of “publication.” Enabling researchers to permanently and openly access data and results at all processing stages changes the interactivity, the participational structure and the nature of scientific enquiry. In addition to changing the function and the nature of what constitutes “a publication,” and apart from the change in financial underpinnings of a new science, there are ripple effects for what is “excellent” research and for research evaluation. New notions of ownership and copyright adapted to a largely decommodified science discourse need to evolve. Roles of librarians will need to be redefined. The status of the book will be redefined. It is argued that these effects are embedded in, and part of, a new way of reorganizing cultural knowledge and its preservation. Presentation available here |
Heather PiwowarPostdoctoral research associate with DataONE and the Dryad digital repository at NESCent, blogger (ResearchRemix.org) |
Uncovering the Impact Story of Open Research*Research today is often evaluated by the journal impact factor of a published article. This has left little room for innovation: it is difficult for new journals to achieve a high impact factor, and non-traditional research products are often published outside of journals. It has also failed to recognize and reward broad impact and post-publication use. As scholarly publishing and interactions move online, scholarly and public impacts are becoming easier to follow and measure. Heather Piwowar will talk about tools that can track these impacts today, and discuss how these tools are empowering revolutions in open access publishing and open data repositories. Presentation available hereTheme: Open data and total impact. |
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* UBC gratefully acknowledges Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) for sponsorship of this event.
Livewebcasting is available to COPPUL Libraries. Please register online.
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Dr. Jon Beasley Murray, David Kohler, Stephen HayProfessor, University of British Columbia Faculty of Arts; Professor, Mathematics Department; PhD Candidate |
Beyond Walls: Teaching and Learning in the OpenOpen education is based on a set of values that are shared by a wide range of scholarly practices: that knowledge should be free and open to use and re-use; that collaboration should be easier, not harder; that people should receive credit for contributing to teaching and learning; that concepts and ideas can be linked in unusual and surprising ways; and that learning should extend beyond institutional walls. One of the exciting and challenging elements about adopting open strategies in teaching and learning is the notion of exposing work and interacting with audiences outside of the traditional classroom. This session will feature different practitioners who have taken an open approach with teaching and learning projects. They will share their experiences, strategies, mistakes and successes regarding working in the open, collaborating with different audiences and moving learning beyond classroom walls. Presentation available hereTheme: Open education. |
Enej Bajgoric, Novak Rogic and Will EngleCentre for Teaching, Learning & Technology (CTLT) at UBC |
An Overview of Open Learning Technologies at UBCOver the last several years, the Centre for Teaching, Learning & Technology (CTLT) at UBC has developed open learning technologies that support e-Portfolios, course blogs, communities of practice, classroom backchannels and microblogging, open educational resource (OER) development, peer evaluation, and other learning and web-publishing needs. These open tools support online and blended learning inside and outside of classroom contexts; allow UBC to investigate how new technologies may be incorporated into learning environments in innovative and sustainable ways; and facilitate communication, engagement, collaboration and knowledge transfer. This session will provide an overview of the open tools and discuss how they are used at UBC to enhance active learning. Presentation available here |
Hilde Colenbrander, Joy Kirchner, Tara Stephens and student presenterscIRcle at UBC Library |
Open Scholar Awards at UBC: Increase the Impact of your ResearchUBC scholars who make their work openly accessible are now eligible for two campus awards. The GSS (Graduate Student Society) cIRcle Open Scholar Award is open to graduate students at UBC Vancouver who submit exemplary non-thesis graduate manuscripts or projects to cIRcle, UBC’s digital repository. The award is based on a lottery held twice a year in October and April. The UBC Library Innovative Dissemination of Research Award honours UBC faculty, staff and students who are expanding the boundaries of research through the creative use of new tools and technologies that enhance the research findings being disseminated. Come to this session to find out how these exciting awards can help you increase the impact of your research. Presentation available here |
November 1 |
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Eric HellmanUnglue.it, President of Gluejar, technologist, entrepreneur, and writer; blogger (Go to Hellman) |
Unglue.it: e-books unstuck – EVENT CANCELLED*What if you could give a book to everyone on earth? Get an e-book and read it on any device, in any format, forever? Give an e-book to your library to share? Own DRM-free e-books, legally? Read free e-books, and know their creators had been fairly paid? What if you could give your favourite book to the world? At Unglue.it, you can pledge toward creating e-books that will be legally free, worldwide. These books have already been traditionally published, but they’re stuck: legal restrictions keep you from being able to enjoy and share them. Unglue.it gets them unstuck. Authors and publishers decide what amount lets them freely share their books with the world while still making a living. That fee is raised through crowd-funding: people like you chipping in. When campaigns succeed, the rights holders get paid, and they issue a free electronic edition under a CreativeCommons license. Founder Eric Hellman will describe his vision for launching a new business model that opens up access to fiction. Theme: Open education
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Dr. Daniel PaulyThe Sea Around Us project |
The Sea Around USDaniel Pauly and his team will showcase their highly acclaimedTheSeaAroundUsproject. This openly available research portal examines the impact of fisheries on marine ecosystems of the world, and offers mitigating solutions to a range of stakeholders throughAnalyses & Visualizations, articles inpeer-reviewedjournals and other media (News & About) that is posted on the portal along with other data sources the team has developed. These includeExclusiveEconomicZones,LargeMarineEcosystems, theHighSeas and other spatial scales,globalmapsandsummaries. Pauly, the 2012 recipient of the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest and 2012 winner of UBC’s Innovative Dissemination of Research Award, will discuss his motivation for opening up access to his research worldwide as represented by such projects as The Sea Around Us. Presentation available hereTheme: Open science |
Jason Woolman, Larissa GrantArchivist, Musqueam Indian Band; Library assistant, Musqueam Indian Band |
First Nations and Open AccessJoin Larissa Grant and Jason Woolman from the Musqueam Indian Band in a discussion on what open access means in the context of First Nations peoples. How can we make items truly open access if there are cultural sensitivities? Grant and Woolman will give an overview of some of the key considerations for making items open access, and highlight a recent development project at UBC’s Museum of Anthropology that gives researchers access to thousands of never-before-seen items. Presentation available hereTheme: Open access and arts |
Dr. Rosie RedfieldProfessor, University of British Columbia Department of Zoology, Blogger (RRResearch) |
#arseniclife, social media and open scienceIn late 2010 NASA-funded scientists claimed to have overturned a basic principle of biochemistry by finding bacteria that used arsenic in place of phosphorus. Science blogs and Twitter rapidly spread the word that the data were unreliable and the findings contrary to the known chemistry of these elements. These social media interactions led to an open-science collaboration that overturned the claims. The talk will consider the conflicting effects of secrecy and openness in such processes as peer review and pre-publication embargoes. Presentation available hereTheme: Open science |
David NgProfessor, Michael Smith Laboratory |
Adventures in Open Science AdvocacyNg will discuss his experiences in getting science topics into the general public’s consciousness. This includes a number of open projects that primarily rely on crowd-sourcing, involving attempts at hosting puzzles, determining the “truth,” ranking Candy, and his more recent grand crowdsourcing experiment, The Phylomon Project (http://phylogame.org). He will attempt to provide some advice on such ventures and show the merits of an open culture. Presentation available hereTheme: Open science. |
Jon NakaneLab Director of the Engineering Physics Project Lab at UBC |
Physical Prototyping at UBC and Open Robotics DemoPrototyping tools are available on campus for students looking to fabricate their ideas into physical objects. On display will be physical prototypes from UBC Engineering Physics and other local groups making use of waterjet cutters, 3dprinters, lasercutters and other tools to put together physical prototypes for academic courses, capstone projects and extracurricular teams. |
