Open Access Week: Oct. 19 – 23, 2009
PAM KING, Digital Research & Scholarly Communication

It will happen on university campuses around the world.  Open Access Week 2009 is an opportunity for students and scholars worldwide to discuss and demonstrate the value of ‘openness’ to the growth of scholarly knowledge. At the University of Toronto, events will take place on all three campuses. Look for the Open Access Week logo in campus publications and on the U of T Mississauga Library’s website.  At U of T Mississauga, two events sponsored by the Library will engage faculty, staff and students in conversations about Open Access and scholarly publishing. These events are:

Jump Start Open Access Week! A Pre–Open Access Week Event
Where: Faculty Club, Room 3140
When: Thursday, Oct. 15, 1–3 p.m.
Welcome to U of T Mississauga faculty, staff and students

Two engaging presentations:

1–2 p.m.
Scholarship and learning in an open access knowledge environment
Prof. Leslie Chan, B.A., M.A.
Senior Faculty, Dept. of Social Sciences, U of T Scarborough (UTSC); Program Supervisor, Joint Program in New Media Studies and the International Studies, UTSC; Faculty and Advisory Committee member, Knowledge Media Design Institute; Associate Director, Bioline International (a non-profit international electronic publishing collaboration with the objective of improving the visibility and impact of health and other scientific journals from developing countries). Chan is an international advocate of Open Access.

2:10 – 3:00pm
Unevenly Distributed: Attitudes, Awareness and Practices
Regarding "Openness"
Gale Moore, PhD
Member, Graduate Faculty, Department of Sociology, U of T; Member, Scholarly Communications Group, U of T Library; Senior Fellow and Former Director, Knowledge Media Design Institute, U of T
A presentation on the attitudes, awareness and practices around "openness", and how these vary across institutions and along several dimensions. What do we know? What do we need to know?

Open Access Week Faculty Panel – Openness in the Disciplines.
Where: Faculty Club, Room 3140
When: Thursday, Oct. 22, 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Welcome to U of T Mississauga faculty, staff and students

A lively panel discussion focused on the impact of Open Access in the disciplines.
Come join the conversation with well–known panelists.

Panelists:

• Gage Averill, Vice–Principal Academic and Dean; Ethnomusicologist
• Amrita Daniere, Vice–Prinicpal Graduate Students; Professor and Chair, Department of Geography
• Ulli Krull, Vice–Principal Research; Professor, Bioanalytical Chemistry
• Mary Ann Mavrinac, Chief Librarian, U of T Mississauga Library
• Eyal Reingold, Professor, Department Psychology

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