Open Access Week 2009 at the University Library

All events are free and open to the public

Creative Commons and Open Access
Monday, March 23rd, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Nathan Yergler, CTO of Creative Commons, will talk about the impact of Creative Commons licenses on Open Access, what challenges still exist even for proponents of Open Access, and what Creative Commons is doing to build an ecosystem of openness.

Location: School of Information in West Hall, Room 311

Copyright, Publishing, and Open Access Essentials
Monday, March 23rd, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Copyright specialist Molly Kleinman and Director of Deep Blue Jim Ottaviani will present a workshop on copyright, publishing, and open access basics for researchers. This session will provide an introduction to copyright questions that most affect scholarly authors, with a focus on ways to increase the impact of your work by improving access to it.

Location: Taubman Medical Library, Room 2903

Open Access Table at the U-M Hospital Triangle
Monday, March 23rd, all day
Drop by to talk to pick up information, learn about the NIH Public Access Policy, and talk to a librarian about your publishing questions.

Location: The Hospital Triangle 

Open Access and the Academy: A Lively Discussion on The Future of Scholarly Publishing
Listen to an audio recording of the panel
Tuesday, March 24th, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Four speakers from a range of disciplines and backgrounds representing both commercial publishers and the international open access movement will consider a range of questions about the purpose of Open Access and its implications for public access to knowledge. The discussion will be moderated by University Librarian Paul Courant and features:

• Jasna Markovac, Senior Advisor to the Dean at the University of Michigan Library (serves on the University Library Leadership Council)
• Julia Blixrud, Assistant Director for Public Programs, Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
• Jean-Claude Guédon: Professor of Comparative Literature at the Université de Montréal, board member at Open Humanities Press
• Vivian Siegel, Research Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University

Location: Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery, First Floor

Natural Language Processing: Legal Challenges (Sponsored by Health Informatics Grand Rounds)
Watch video of the presentation
Wednesday, March 25th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
An informational presentation about the kinds of resources that the Library provides to support natural language processing research and the role that open access can play in supporting NLP. The workshop features:

• Jean Song (Moderator), Bioinformationist
• Jack Bernard, Assistant General Counsel, Law Professor
• Kathleen Folger, Electronic Resources Officer, University Library
• John Wilkin, Associate University Librarian, Executive Director of Hathi Trust

Location: Biomedical Science Research Building Auditorium

So You Want to Start a Journal?
Thursday, March 26th, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Members of the Library's Scholarly Publishing Office staff will walk you through all the steps it takes to start a new journal, from the first discussions with a publisher to soliciting submissions and making design decisions.

Location: Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery, First Floor

Beyond Open Access: Creating Open Educational Resources (OER)
Materials from the workshop available for download
Friday, March 27th, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
This workshop will begin with a light-hearted round of "Copyright Jeopardy" to test your copyright knowledge. Workshop participants will learn how to create educational content that can be shared and reused by students, educators, and self-learners worldwide; how to find places to search for openly licensed content, and how to effectively license your own content using Creative Commons licenses.

Location: Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery, First Floor