UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES AND
PARTNERS HOST
OPEN ACCESS WEEK OCTOBER 22-26
Amherst, MA
– 2012 Open Access Week, a global event
in its sixth year, will be held from October 22 to October 26. The UMass Amherst Libraries will host a
series of events relevant to open access, copyright and fair use, data sharing,
electronic theses and dissertations, and sustainability. All events are free and open to the
public. The full schedule is available
at http://scholarworks.umass.edu/oa/2012/.
Monday, October 22: Open Access
Week Kickoff Webcast
Perspectives on Open Access: Practice, Progress
and Pitfalls
Matt Sheridan
Du Bois Library, Floor 26
Time: 4:00 – 5:30pm
Panel discussion on Open Access via webcast (sponsored
by SPARC and the World Bank). A distinguished panel of speakers comprised
of experts from the broad range of stakeholders in the Open Access movement:
researchers, students, policy makers, publishers and academics. The following guest
speakers will discuss why Open Access is an imperative to them, and to their
work:
•
Michael Carroll, Professor of Law, American University, and founding Board
Member, Creative Commons
•
Matt Cooper, President, National Association of Graduate-Professional
Students
•
Maricel Kann, Professor, University of Maryland, member, PubMed Central
National Advisory Committee, NIH
•
Carlos Rossel, Publisher, The World Bank
•
Neil Thakur, Special Assistant to the Deputy Director, Extramural Research,
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
The panel will be moderated by Heather Joseph,
Executive Director, SPARC, with ample time for questions from audience members.
Tuesday, October 23
Copyright & Fair Use
Laura Quilter
Du Bois Library, Floor 26
Time: 12:00 – 2:00pm
In this overview
of copyright issues for faculty and researchers, we will discuss how copyright
affects you: how to protect and get credit for your work, share what you
want to share, and use others’ work. Special attention will be given to
both questions and problems with using other’s work -- relying on fair use, and
asking for permission if it’s not a fair use -- and the best ways to manage
your own copyrights and licenses. Q&A and discussion time. A reception follows the program to
welcome Laura Quilter, Copyright and Information Policy Librarian, to the
University.
EZID Workshop
Data Working Group
Du Bois Library, Floor 26
Time: 4:00 – 5:00pm
Do you manage or help others manage any kinds of digital objects,
such as texts, data sets, terms, or images? Do you need an easy solution to
citing and providing access to this kind of work?
EZID makes it simple for researchers and others to obtain and
manage long-term identifiers (DOIs and ARKs) for their digital content. This
workshop will cover why data citation and long-term identifiers are important
to researchers, how EZID can provide an easy solution for you, and how to get
started.
Wednesday,
October 24
Open Access, Copyright, and Fair Use for
Theses and Dissertations
Meghan Banach Bergin & Laura
Quilter
Du
Bois Library, Floor 26
An
overview for graduate students to learn about the benefits of choosing open
access for electronic theses and dissertations. Topics include copyright and
fair use as it relates to theses and dissertations. Discussion time will explore graduate
students’ thoughts about open access and copyright issues. The event is co-sponsored by the UMass
Amherst Libraries and the Graduate School.
Sustainability Workshop
Madeleine Charney
Du Bois Library, Floor 26
Time: 3:30 – 5:00pm
The sustainability movement inspires students, faculty and staff in the
classroom and across campus. Learn about Open Educational Resources
which allow faculty to tailor their course material and save students money.
The workshop includes a demonstration of the new Campus Sustainability
Initiative page on ScholarWorks, the digital repository of UMass Amherst. Q&A time will be given to share ideas about integrating
reliable, cost-saving material into the teaching and learning of
sustainability. Refreshments will be served.
Thursday, October 25
Wikipedia Loves Libraries:
Edit-athon and Workshop
Sarah Hutton
Du Bois Library, Floor 26
Time: 9am – 5:00pm
Sharing Wikimedia’s mission to empower
and engage people around the world to collaboratively collect and develop open
educational content, and to disseminate it effectively and globally, the University Libraries are
partnering with local and regional scholars to host a Wikipedia Edit-athon
in the Du Bois Library.
This Edit-athon event is aimed at sharing the expertise of
real-world cultural institutions in Wikipedia, using the expertise of all who
attend this event. We’ll be able to access the resources of the UMass Amherst
and Five Colleges library system, guided by the expertise of its librarians,
with the joint aim of increasing the presence of minority and underrepresented
authors, artists, and historical figures in one the world’s largest open access
sources of information. From 9-10:30am, we will offer a workshop for
individuals seeking to learn more about how to become a Wikipedia content
contributor, including technical aspects of article authorship. For more information on the Wikipedia Loves
Libraries International Initiative: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries
Friday, October 26
Data Sharing in the Humanities
Panel
Data Working Group
Herter
Hall, Room 19G
Time: 2:30 - 3:30pm
Time: 2:30 - 3:30pm
Data
Sharing in the Humanities will discuss the varieties of research data in the
Humanities and the merits of and concerns about sharing that data. The panel
includes three UMass Amherst Humanities faculty members who will present their
perspectives on data and data sharing. The panel will introduce some of the
concepts of open access to data, data sharing, and Open Data as they are
manifest in the humanities. The event is open to all members of the UMass
Amherst community. Hosted in
collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Amherst Digital Humanities
Initiative.
