2023 Open Access Week

Series: Open Education

Event Date & Time

  • October 18, 2023 - November 2, 2023
    8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Event Description

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Open Access Week is an international event whose goal is to highlight how open scholarship can help people meet their goals in research, scholarly publishing, teaching and learning. Each year, as part of Open Access Week, UBC showcases diverse events highlighting areas of open scholarship that UBC’s faculty, students and staff participate in as well as guests from local and global community. All of these events are free and open to the public, students, faculty, staff and schools.

Please click on the session titles for more information and to register for each event.

Keynote:

Making Methods Move: Toward Protocol Sharing Across the Disciplines
Missing or inaccessible information about the methods used in scholarly research can slow the pace of discovery. Yet less attention has been paid to the sharing of detailed methods information than to other Open Science practices like data sharing or preprint posting. Drawing on survey research and large-scale analysis of recent scientific publications, this talk makes the case for step-by-step protocols as a format that can foster research quality, efficiency, and equity in a wide variety of research fields, including the humanities and social sciences. Highlighting diverse use cases from replication to abductive reuse, the talk discusses interactions with other tools such as persistent identifiers, considers limit cases, and explores opportunities for approaching protocols as first-class scholarly outputs.

  • Speaker: Marcel LaFlamme, Open Research Manager, PLOS
  • Date: Wednesday, October 25, 2023
  • Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
  • Location: Online

Additional Events include:

Open 101
Date: Thursday, October 5, 2023
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Location: Online

OER Fund General Information Session
Date: Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Location: Online

Copyright and Licensing for Open Educational Resources
Date: Thursday, October 19, 2023
Time: 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Location: Online

Publishing a Book with Pressbooks – An Introduction
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Location: Online

Publishing a Book with Pressbooks – Advanced Pressbooks
Date: Thursday, October 26, 2023
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Location: Online

Open Access Publishing
Date: Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
Location: Online

Creating Accessible OER: What Makes Content Accessible?
Date: Thursday, November 2, 2023
Time: 11:30am – 1:00pm
Location: Online

Introduction to OSF
Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
Location: Online

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