In this one-hour online session you will learn about:

1. Different models of book publishing (closed, green, gold, bronze, diamond)

2. The New University Presses in the Netherlands that operate under a Diamond OA model

3. The international Diamond OA Book publisher Open Book Publishers

4. Hear the author’s perspective on OA book publishing provided by Prof. Dr. Ingrid Robeyns.

We are looking forward to hearing all your questions!

Informal Open Access discussion - During these discussions, we encourage you to share your insights, questions, and experiences. Whether you're a seasoned researcher or just curious about the topic, your voice matters!

Informal Open Access discussion - During these discussions, we encourage you to share your insights, questions, and experiences. Whether you're a seasoned researcher or just curious about the topic, your voice matters!

Unlike traditional publishing models, where marketing and promotion are completed for authors, engaging in open education activities requires some effort from practitioners in getting the word out there about their resources.

This session will introduce you to workflows for making your resource discoverable, streamlining impact data collection, and marketing and promotion processes to showcase the reach of your open educational resource.

This session will cover:

• Identifying how resource formats and accessibility impact openness

• Developing a plan for sharing open educational resources

• Developing a plan for gathering data to show impact of your open educational resource

• Identify marketing and promotion processes for releasing your open educational resource

Join us for an exclusive, 60-minute interactive session designed to address your specific needs in medical research publishing. Discover how Open Access can transform the way your work is shared and its impact on global healthcare.

In this session, we’ll cover how Open Access increases the visibility and impact of your research, accelerates knowledge dissemination, and enhances public health outcomes by making medical research freely accessible.

You’ll also learn about the latest trends, including the rise of preprints, transformative publishing agreements, and funder mandates. Practical tips will be provided on navigating article processing charges (APCs), selecting reputable Open Access journals, and understanding copyright and licensing issues.

Many institutions start open education projects with excitement about the possibilities of cross-departmental or cross-institutional collaboration, but often find it difficult to achieve truly effective partnerships.

Join us on October 29th for a webinar with 2024 OE Global Collaboration Award winner the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and its members as they share how they’ve forged successful collaborations to publish high-quality, widely adopted open educational resources.

In this webinar we will:

- Explore strategies for effective collaboration

- Discover how to overcome barriers to cross-departmental and cross-institutional collaborations

- Learn how to balance the varying needs of stakeholders while aligning them toward shared goals, especially in creating localized and indigenous content

- Understand how collaboration can play a pivotal role in encouraging broader adoption of OER

Founded in 2001, Creative Commons has become one of the most used open licensing schemes for those engaging in open scholarship. Understanding the nuances and complexities of using these licenses in your work can be a daunting task, especially with the rise of content creators using outdated versions of licenses for profit.

This session will provide participants with a more in-depth understanding of Creative Commons licenses and some of the potential pitfalls when using and assigning licenses to your work.

Topics covered in this session include:

• Considerations for choosing an appropriate Creative Commons license

• Creative Commons licenses and open culture

• Why the legal code behind Creative Commons licenses matters

• How copyleft trolls take advantage of outdated licenses

• When Creative Commons licenses might not be appropriate for your work

Alt-texts are important features of accessible ebooks. They describe imagery that appears in electronic texts to better include readers with visual impairments. While there are numerous accessibility guides that suggest best practices, some images are more difficult to describe than others and examples of visual art can be especially challenging. While bias-free language is important to describe images, how does visual art pose issues in communicating a material type, a mood, or an atmosphere?

Please join Concordia University Press and Mehrnoosh Alborzi for a conversation and an example-driven presentation on writing alt-text descriptions for visually illustrated books. Presenting findings from her Elspeth McConnell Fine Arts Award–funded research project, Alborzi will share information with attendees about when best practices guides are lacking, what kinds of images are especially difficult, and how to communicate nuances without imparting too much bias or interpretation.

Following Alborzi’s presentation, attendees with experience in alt-texts are encouraged to bring examples of their own work for a collaborative discussion and sharing session, as well as time for questions.

Join us in celebrating “Community over Commercialization: Buttons and Conversations (4TH Space/Online).”

The first 15 to 30 minutes of introductions and updates from Concordia University’s leaders of open initiatives will be available in a hybrid format. The rest of the event will be available in person only.

Stop by for informal conversations, networking, and hands-on button-making, all while enjoying a cup of coffee! This info session and button making workshop is an opportunity for students, professors, librarians, staff, and anyone curious about open-access publishing, open data, open-source software, and open education to learn more about Concordia’s open landscape!

A public lecture to commemorate the International Open Access Week under theme "Community Over Commercialization ". The lecture will be delivered by Dr Reggie Raju, Director of Research & Learning at the University of Cape Town Libraries.

Recognizing the importance of Open Access, IFMSA-Egypt is organizing an activity during International Open Access Week 2024. This initiative aims to raise awareness among medical students and early-career researchers about the role of OA in democratizing knowledge, empowering them with the skills needed to navigate OA platforms, and encouraging advocacy for the adoption of OA policies within their institutions.

The webinar will discuss how can youth contribute to the open science policies and put "community over commercialization", highlighting our role as medical students and researchers in the movement.

The webinar will be held online, and it's open for everyone to attend. Young people are highly encouraged to attend to take part in the OA advocacy!

تحتفل مكتبة الميزاب الرقمية بهذا الحدث العالمي الذي يجسد قيم الانفتاح والمشاركة في المعرفة، إذ يمثل هذا الأسبوع فرصة ثمينة لتعزيز الوصول الحر إلى المعلومات والبحوث الأكاديمية مما يساهم في دعم الابتكار وتطوير المجتمعات من خلال إتاحة المحتوى العلمي والمعرفي للجميع دون قيود.

سيتم تناول الموضوعات التالية:

١. تجربة سلطنة عمان في بناء المستودع الرقمي الوطني

يقدمها: د. نبهان بن حارث الحراصي

جامعة السلطان قابوس

٢. العلم المفتوح والبنى التحتية: دعم المعرفات الدائمة للمجتمعات البحثية العربية

يقدمها: أ. محمد مصطفى

Datacite

يدير الندوة: د. محمد عبد الله يماني

جامعة الامير محمد بن فهد

Join us and JMIR Publications this Open Access Week 2024 to participate in a community Live Review that aims to be open, time-efficient, scientifically rigorous, fair, balanced, and inclusive. Participants have the option to be recognized for their contributions.

WHEN: Friday, October 25 at 9am PDT/ 12 noon EDT / 4pm UTC

WHAT: The Live Review is hosted by two facilitators from the PREreview team with experience in moderating virtual collaborative review discussions. They will guide participants through a constructive discussion of the following preprint:

‘Evaluating the accuracy and reliability of large language models in assisting with pediatric differential diagnoses: A multicenter diagnostic study’ - by Masab A. Mansoor, Andrew F. Ibrahim, David J. Grindem, and Asad Baig

medRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.09.24311777

WHO: Anyone interested in the research topic under discussion and armed with respect and a constructive attitude is invited to join

WHERE: Complete the form to be sent the joining information: bit.ly/reviewtogether-oct25

GW OSPO Webinar Panel Discussion

Our distinguished panel of Diamond Open Access experts from across the globe will explore possible paths forward for open access publishing. Please come and bring your hard questions for this group to try to answer.

We continue to highlight the many aspects of open access and work towards openly accessible material – this week with additional attention.

Although the open access concept was originally developed to establish fair ways of disseminating knowledge and to overcome financial inequalities, the modern publishing landscape is often characterized by high publishing fees. The joint Diamond Open Access publishing house of FU Berlin, HU Berlin, TU Berlin and Charité offers its services to members of participating institutions without publication fees.

In this presentation, we will give a brief overview of our services and your options for publishing with BerlinUP Books.

After a presentation lasting around twenty minutes, there will be an opportunity to discuss questions.

Open Access Week 2024 is an opportunity to engage in a meaningful discussion on the approaches to Open Scholarship that prioritize the best interests of both the public and the academic community. The event will be held strictly online, providing valuable insights for academics, researchers, and students.

This session explores the concept of open practice and its influence on equity in education for students and the community. Open practice is a multifaceted concept, connecting and uniting academics, students and the community in a more equitable and socially just model for education. Collaborating and co-designing through open practice enriches educational experiences by embedding diverse representations, authentic stories, lived experiences and renewable assessment.

This session will celebrate the launch of Communication Concepts, a recently published Open Education Resource (OER) developed in collaboration with students as an example of open education in practice.

All are welcome to attend. This session will be held in person and also streamed via Zoom webinar. Please indicate when booking whether you wish to attend in person or virtually. Those attending in-person are invited to stay after the session for refreshments and networking.

In celebration of Open Access Week, the University of Chicago Library will host a webinar on October 24 featuring author John-Manuel Andriote discussing why he chooses to prioritize community over commercialization by granting open access to his book, Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America.

To mark the book’s 25th anniversary, Andriote as the rightsholder has chosen to turn Victory Deferred into an open access book for anyone around the world. He explains, “The value of Victory Deferred to the LGBT and broader American community—in its many accounts and insights from firsthand interviews with heroes and pioneers in the HIV-AIDS epidemic and the LGBT equality movement—exceeds my own commercial interests in the book.”

Please join us for the webinar, Rereading a Heroic Legacy: How AIDS Built the LGBT Equality Movement, for a discussion of why open access to an award-winning title matters societally and intellectually, especially in the face of continuing oppression against the fight for equality.

Generative AI has forced universities to contend with complex ethical and social questions—namely because writing is so deeply entrenched as an institutional gatekeeping. For many students, particularly those from marginalized backgrounds or for whom English is not a first language, the pressure to translate ideas into “proper” English contributes to attrition rates and exacerbates feelings of inadequacy, alienation, and exclusion from many academic communities.

From an equity and inclusion perspective, AI has the potential to disrupt institutional barriers by offering accessible tools that level the grammatical playing field. By functioning as virtual tutors or co-writers, AI systems can assist students in producing more polished and coherent prose, thus challenging the traditional hierarchies that privilege certain grammatical and stylistic norms. Instead of attempting to ban these tools (which is, to say the least, impractical), I side with a growing number of technology scholars who argue that we should focus on teaching students how to use generative AI responsibly and effectively. However, I do so with the caveat that teaching responsible AI use means critically engaging the complex and often messy processes that make AI what it is.

In this presentation, I draw from Indigenous theorists and authors to situate generative AI and large language models (LLMs) within a long colonial history of extraction. Just as colonial states declare Indigenous lands terra nullius, allowing settlers to exploit resources through mining, clear-cutting, and other forms of extraction, generative AI similarly depends on the unchecked extraction of data, including Indigenous knowledge and cultural resources, often without consent. The late Gregory Younging refers to this process as gnaritas nullius, the colonial rendering of Indigenous knowledge into public property. The unchecked extraction of writing, including, but not limited to, Indigenous knowledge, represents a new frontier for colonial capitalism, where cultural and intellectual property are commodified by those with the most access and power. As Nando de Freitas notes, the future of AI development depends on scale: those who control the largest datasets will have the greatest advantage and profit the most from AI. The numerous high-profile copyright cases against companies like OpenAI and Meta show that how this data is collected is treated as a secondary issue. This unbridled, dehumanizing race for data mirrors the extractive practices that have driven capitalist-colonial expansion for centuries. Building on these ideas, I mobilize the insights of Indigenous authors like Younging, Scott Lyons, and Cherie Dimaline to highlight strategies for resisting colonial extraction and challenging capitalist systems through rhetorical sovereignty and the concept of incommensurability. The goal is not to discourage the use of generative AI but, in the Faustian sense, to reveal the costs of embracing it, especially when it is employed to subvert oppressive institutional structures.

Speaker

David Gaertner, Assoicate Professor, Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies

David Gaertner is an assistant professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the co-Director of the CEDaR space: a community-centered new media and immersive storytelling lab. He writes, researches, and teaches new media, critical Indigenous studies; Indigenous literatures; contemporary Canadian literature, cultural theories of reconciliation, and speculative fiction. He has published articles in Canadian Literature, American Indian Research and Culture, and Digital Pedagogies in the Humanities, amongst others. He is the author of The Theatre of Regret: Literature, Art and the Politics of Reconciliation in Canada (UBC Press) and editor of Soykeyihta: The Poetry of Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe (WLUP).

Are you worried about the practicalities surrounding making your research open? Are you looking to understand the values of sharing your work openly? Join four Open Scholarship trendsetters for a panel discussion as they explore the benefits and intersectionality of open work and have a frank conversation on what it REALLY means to commit to Open Access.

The purpose of this panel is to explore a variety of perspectives within Open Scholarship, share personal experiences on how open resources and practices benefits our UCalgary community and beyond, and considerations on the evolution of Open Scholarship to reduce barriers and silos within "open."

Our Panelists:

Jennifer Abel, Research Data Management Librarian, Libraries and Cultural Resources, University of Calgary

Ottilia Berze, Open Science Strategy Consultant, Knowledge to Impact Team, Research Services, University of Calgary

Melissa Morris, Managing Editor, The Motley Undergraduate Journal

Verena Roberts, Educational Developer, Office of Teaching and Learning, Thompson Rivers University

Our Moderators:

Sarah Adams, Open Education Librarian, Libraries and Cultural Resources, University of Calgary

Brianna Calomino, Digital Projects Librarian – Digital Scholarship, Libraries and Cultural Resources, University of Calgary

To celebrate Open Access Week, the Penn Libraries hosts a hybrid panel discussion on the future of research under the Nelson Memo, which requires federal agencies with research funding to make all research materials publicly available without an embargo or cost.

Sarah Lamdan, Deputy Director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and author of Data Cartels (Stanford University Press), will present on “Data Cartels and Commercial Obstacles to Open Access.”

In celebration of Open Access Week, the university archivist (James R. Stewart) will lead a workshop. This engaging session will highlight how to leverage Open Educational Resources (OER) to enhance genealogical research and navigate archival materials effectively. By emphasizing the importance of community engagement and open access to information, this workshop also highlights how knowledge sharing can strengthen community ties and promote collective learning.

Objectives:

• Introduce participants to essential genealogy research methodologies and best practices.

• Explain the significance of OER in supporting individual genealogy projects.

• Demonstrate how to locate and utilize OER resources relevant to family history research.

• Foster a supportive environment for participants to share their research experiences and findings.

Sponsored by the Department of Information Science, Dalhousie Libraries is hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in the Ko’jua Okuom at the Killam Library on Thursday, October 24 for Mi'kmaw History Month!

An edit-a-thon is an event where editors and users edit and improve a specific topic or type of content in Wikipedia and Wikimedia. The focus of the edit-a-thon is Mi’kma'ki and Mi’kmaw People and there will be a pre-selected range of biographies, books, and events to add. The goal is to increase Indigenous representation, improve accuracy, and contribute to a more equitable and inclusive internet.

Where: In the Ko'jua Okuom at the Killam Library Learning Commons (6225 University Avenue)

When: 12 - 4 p.m.

Instruction: Dr. Stacy Allison-Cassin will have instruction sessions from 12:00 -12:45 a.m. and 2:00 - 2:45 p.m.

You are welcome to stay and participate for the entire afternoon or come and go as you are available!

Refreshments provided. To participate, please make an account with Wikipedia in advance. Please bring your laptop. If you do not have a laptop we will have some available.

Let's celebrate International Open Access to Knowledge and explore how Personal Knowledge Twins can open new opportunities to learn and benefit from new ways of sharing information.

During this event you will learn from the leaders in AI, Education & Technology who will address the benefits of integrating AI in learning process.

In this engaging event, you'll learn about:

1) multiple ways how personal AI twins can transformative world accessing knowledge,

2) making your expertise available to your audiences (students, social media followers, colleagues etc.),

3) integrating personal AI twins into your own creative endeavors and research activities.

Guest Speakers

Dr. Paul Jurcys will share more insights about his experience of being one of the first academics to fully introduce AI tools - his own personal AI knowledge twin - into teaching a course at Vilnius University (Lithuania).

He will share some insights and surprising lessons on how it AI open new dynamic ways to access knowledge, how it helped helped increase student engagement, and how personal AI tools nudge to to reimagine the importance of access to and "consumption" of knowledge.

​​​Why Attend?

​​​Learn how to Personal AI twins are changing changing Education

​​​Discover practical use cases for educators, influencers, content creators, and hobbyists.

Lean how you can leverage your expertise, knowledge, and content with personal AI.

​​​Start building your own AI knowledge twin - we will walk you through the tools and process

​​​Ticket Price: $24

​​​This includes a one-month subscription to your AI knowledge twin—an invaluable tool to augment your capabilities.

Free "Scholarship" tickets are available.

​​​Who Should Attend?

​​​Subject matter experts, educators, policy makers, influencers, content creators, or anyone who work with content and are exploring how to leverage AI to make content more accessible.

​​​Don’t miss out on this opportunity to empower yourself with cutting-edge AI technology. Reserve your spot and take the first step toward exceeding your own potential!

Open Access week was celebrated on Thursday, the 24th October 2024 at Lesotho College of Education, in front of the Mangoaela Library and ICT Centre, The event was very successful and it honored by the Rector of the College, Dr. Letele the Deputy Rector Academics Mrs. Nyabela, Lesotho College of Education Students and the pre-school/primary children. It was a very fruitful and productive event that have many activities such as: quiz, poems and drama.

The International Open Access Week will be celebrated from October 21-27, 2024. At BCAM, within the workshop 1st IN-DEEP Week, we will do so.

We encourage you to join us on October 24th, for the Open Science Talk, given by Miguel Benítez (Project Manager, BCAM). The talk will be at the Maryam Mirzakahni Seminar room and online at 16:45h-17:30h.

In this session, the following points will be addressed:

• Open Science: A General Context

• Datasets

• Editorials vs repositories

• Acknowledgments

We would like to share with you the Paywall – The Business of Scholarship documentary. This video focuses on the need for Open Access to research and science.

The film questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers and examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher.

Navigating Open Access (OA) publishing can be challenging and is often very expensive. This online workshop, a combination of presentation and question & answer period, will help demystify OA and provide solutions on how to reduce or eliminate the cost of publishing OA as a STEM scholar.

By the end of this workshop, participants will:

• Understand the different OA publishing models

• Be introduced to UWSpace, the Library’s institutional repository

• Know about various library agreements that can help reduce or remove the cost of OA publishing