Open Access Week at UCLA, October 18-22

Event Date: October 18, 2010 - 8:00am

Location: UCLA Campus

To download a copy of the UCLA Open Access Week flier, click here.

Open Access Week, a global event now entering its fourth 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 . . . make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.

“Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole. (Welcome to Open Access Week 2010 http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/welcome-to-open-access-week)

On October 3, 2010, the Student Advocates for Graduate Education (SAGE) coalition, of which UCLA is a founding member, unanimously approved a Resolution in Support of the Student Statement on the Right to Research.

UCLA GSA has been a supporter of Open Access, helping to make graduate student produced journals freely available online. UCLA Library and GSA Publications are cohosting a workshop:

What Every Graduate Student Needs to Know about Creative Commons, Copyright, and Why Rights Matter in Researching, Publishing, Teaching, and Creating


Tuesday, October 19; 2-3 p.m., 2412 Ackerman

Are you suffering from information overload about Open Access, Google Books, digital rights management, copyright infringement cases and sampling? Help is at hand; join librarians Angela Riggio and Bonnie Tijerina of Lunch & Librarians fame for a workshop about rights-related choices and decisions you may have to make as you navigate through your graduate work.

• Will you have to get permission to quote your own work in your dissertation?

• Should you use the same licensing terms for a YouTube video of your cat and an embedded piece of video in a research article?

• How do you cite a Creative Commons licensed work in your article?

• Is Creative Commons the best option for you?

• Can you show a commercial DVD to your students?

This workshop is geared toward graduate students, but open to the UCLA scholarly community as a whole. Refreshments will be served.

Other Open Access Events

SPARC Open-Access Week Webcast


Two showings: Monday, October 18, at 10 a.m. in Charles E. Young Research Library Presentation Room and Wednesday, October 20, at 10 a.m. in the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library Classroom

Harold Varmus, Nobel Prize-winning scientist and director of the U.S. National Cancer Institute, will offer welcoming remarks. Varmus has been an exemplary leader in promoting open access. As director of the National Institutes of Health he launched PubMed Central to increase public access to the literature and later helped found the Public Library of Science, one of the world’s leading open-access publishers.

Varmus will be joined by Cameron Neylon, a senior scientist at the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, biochemist, and author of the widely read “Science in the Open” blog. Neylon will highlight the kinds of scientific advances open access can facilitate and discuss current examples as well as future opportunities. Leading researchers from around the globe will also add their voices to the conversation.

Refreshments will be served.

What New Librarians Should Know about Open Access and Scholarly Communication

Thursday, October 21; 3-5 p.m., Graduate School of Education and Information Studies Building, Room 111

A panel of scholars, technologists and librarians will discuss what open access means in their work, how they make scholarship open, and the barriers, challenges, and resistance they encounter. A reception will follow this Department of Information Studies Colloquium.

Moderator: Chris Borgman, Presidential Chair and Professor of Information Studies

Panelists:
Zoe Borovsky, Assistant Adjunct Professor of Scandinavian, Research Coordinator of the Center for Digital Humanities, Research Scholar with the Institute of Digital Research and Education, Project Manager for UCLA’s Encyclopedia of Egyptology

Libbie Stephenson, Director of the Social Science Data Archive

Jillian Wallis, Data Archivist for the Center for Embedded Network Sensing, PhD Candidate in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies

Andrew Lau, Editor of the open-access journal InterActions

Stacey Meeker: Publications Director, UCLA Graduate Students Association

Bonnie Tijerina, Digital Collections Services Librarian for the UCLA Library

"Copyright Criminals" Screening

Thursday, October 21; 6 p.m., Charles E. Young Research Library Presentation Room

Can you own a sound? This 2009 documentary examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including related debates over artistic expression, copyright law, and money. It features many of hip-hop music’s founding figures, including Public Enemy, De La Soul, and Digital Underground, as well as emerging artists.

The film is by Benjamin Franzen and Kembrew McLeod. Franzen is an Atlanta-based photographer and video producer, and McLeod is an independent documentary filmmaker and an associate professor of communication studies at the University of Iowa.

Website: http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/services/publications