Next week the Bodleian Libraries will be running the following talks and workshops for Open Access week. These events will be of particular interest to researchers, academics and postgraduates. > book a place at any of these talks.
In addition, please note that the session next Thursday (iSkills: Your thesis, copyright and ORA) is particularly relevant to DPhil students all of whom are required to deposit their thesis in the ORA repository.
Open Access: The rise of open data-centric research and publication enterprises – exemplars in the life sciences (Mon 20 October 14.00-15.00)
Dr Susanna-Assunta Sansone (Associate Director, Oxford e-Research Centre and Honorary Academic Editor, NPG Scientific Data) will speak on the rise of open data-centric research and publication enterprises. Data sharing practices in life sciences and the importance of making yours more easily reusable will also be covered. Susanna is a co-founder of BioSharing (reproducible research) and blogs about Open Data on the Guardian Higher Education Network.
Who is this session for? Postgraduates, academics, research staff and anyone else interested in Open Access.
Venue: Training Room, Radcliffe Science Library
iSkills: Open Access Oxford – What’s happening? (Tues 21 October 12.00 – 13.00)
A briefing on open access publishing and Oxford’s position aimed particularly at researchers and academics with a funder mandate to make their publications available on an open access basis. The session will cover Green vs. Gold; funder mandates and publisher policies; Oxford Research Archive (ORA) and Symplectic; OA website/ helpline; what’s new – update on new HEFCE policy.
Who is this session for? Current Oxford research postgraduates, researchers, academics, University and Library staff.
Presenters: Juliet Ralph and Craig Finlay
Venue: Training Room, Radcliffe Science Library
Open Access: The Open Library of Humanities – Gold Open Access for the humanities without author-facing charges (Wed 22 October, 14.00-15.00)
Dr Martin Eve (Lecturer in English, University of Lincoln and OLH Co-Founder) will speak about OLH, ‘a project exploring a PLOS-style model for the humanities and social sciences’. Martin is on the JISC OAPEN-UK project committee, chief editor of Orbit, and writes about Open Access for the Guardian Higher Education Network.
Who is this session for? Postgraduates, academics, research staff and anyone else interested in Open Access.
Venue: Lecture Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road
iSkills: Your thesis, copyright and ORA (Thurs 23 Oct 10.00 – 11.00)
Oxford DPhil students are required to deposit a digital copy of their thesis in ORA (Oxford University Research Archive). Find out how to deposit the digital copy of your thesis and what you need to know about rights and other issues.
Who is this session for? Doctoral research students.
Presenter: Sarah Barkla
Venue: Training Room, Radcliffe Science Library > Book online
To book a place at any of these workshops please visit http://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/open-access-week-2014-at-oxford/.
