North America: Open Access Week 2010

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'''This is not an exhaustive list of countries. If you want to add your event and your country is not listed here feel free to add it in alphabetical order. '''

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Alberta

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 * Location: Edmonton, Saturday, October 30, Open Access Panel, Western Regional Conference, faculty associations
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 * Contact: Andrew Waller
 * Location: University of Calgary
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British Columbia

 * Contact: Heather Morrison
 * Location: Burnaby
 * OA Week page for BC post-secondary libaries


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 * Location: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby
 * Student Leadership in the Open Access Movement panel


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Ontario

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 * Contact: Leslie Chan
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 * Contact: The Scholarly Communications Initiative
 * Location: York University, Toronto
 * Link for more details, if available: The Scholarly Communications Initiative


 * Contact: Guelph Voices for Open Access
 * Location: 10 Carden street, Guelph
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 * Contact: University of Guelph Workshops for Open Access
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 * Contact: Adrian Ho
 * Location: The University of Western Ontario, London, ON
 * Link for more details, if available: Open Access Week @ Western 2010

Quebec

 * Contact: Stevan Harnad
 * Location: Université du Québec à Montreal
 * Link for more details, if available: OA Week OA Mandate Adoption Challenge for Institutions and Funders University of Southampton/EPrints is launching a week-long Open Access Mandate Adoption Challenge for OA Week. Representatives of universities, research institutions and research funders the world over that have adopted (or are planning to adopt) an OA mandate are invited to register their policies in ROARMAP (the Registry of Open Access Material Archiving Policies) as a show of force during OA week, setting an example to encourage other institutions and funders worldwide to do likewise. If you know of an OA mandate -- already adopted or proposed -- that has not yet been registered in ROARMAP, please register it (or encourage a relevant official to register it). Please register your mandate in ROARMAP HERE


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 * Contact: Marc Couture
 * Location: Télé-université du Québec
 * Link for more details, if available: Launch of book (in French) on the University and Intellectual Property on first day of OA Week: October 18 at the distance learning tele-university of Quebec: TÉLUQ The French-language book "Propriété intellectuelle et university: De la privatisation des idées à la libre circulation des savoirs" (Intellectual property and the university: Between the privatization of ideas and the free circulation of knowledge) will be launched in Montréal on the very first day of Open Access Week. The book, which includes a chapter on Open Access to scientific knowledge, promotes the idea of maximizing the access to and usage of university-produced intellectual works. The authors (Couture, Dubé & Malissard) have accordingly self-archived the revised manuscript of the entire book in UQAM’s repository Archipel, and obtained from the publisher (Presses de l’Université du Québec) the right to keep it there after publication. To our knowledge, this is a first in Quebec-based scholarly book publishing. The lessons which will be drawn from this “pilot project” could eventually lead, or so the authors hope, to something similar to Athabasca University Press, which publishes all its titles in open access, or Manchester University Press (UK),  which endorse self-archiving of authors’ manuscripts.


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USA

University of Alabama at Birmingham

 * Contact: [mailto:hmartin@uab.edu Heather Martin]
 * Location: University of Alabama at Birmingham
 * Link for more details, if available: Scholarly Communication at UAB


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Arizona

 * Contact: Anali Maughan Perry
 * Location: Arizona State University Libraries
 * Link for more details, if available: Library Channel Blog Posts, Open Access Library Minute, Librarians Assembly Open Access Resolution


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California

 * Contact: Armacost Library
 * Location: University of Redlands, Redlands, CA
 * Link for more details, if available: Open Access for Faculty


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Florida

 * Contact: University of Florida - Open Access Task Force
 * Location: Gainesville, FL
 * Link for more details, if available: Publishing for the 21st Century: Open Access for Greater Impact


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Georgia

 * Contact: Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center
 * Location: Atlanta, Georgia
 * Link for more details, if available: Expanding the Reach of Your Research: An Open Forum on Authorship and Your Intellectual Property


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Maryland

 * Contact: [mailto:towen@umd.edu Terry M. Owen]
 * Location: University of Maryland, College Park
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Massachusetts

 * Contact: [mailto:pontika.nancy@gmail.com| Athanasia (Nancy) Pontika]
 * Location: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College
 * Link for more details, if available: For updated information check our website


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 * Open Access Q&A with Peter Suber: During Open Access Week, come join a discussion with one of the leading voices in Open Access, Peter Suber. Currently a Berkman Fellow at Harvard, Suber also serves as the Open Access Project Director at Public Knowledge.  In addition to his work on Open Access, Suber has taught philosophy, computer science, and law at Earlham College. His research focuses on how policy and technology can foster research, as well as the real and potential impact of the Internet on scholarly communication. His talk on Wednesday will include a discussion of the Open Access Tracking Project as well as a Q&A session. The Open Access Tracking Project uses tagging to identify developments in the Open Access movement in real time.


 * Contact: Boston University Libraries Office of Digital Initiatives & Open Access
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Michigan

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 * Contact: Emily Puckett Rodgers
 * Location: Open-Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Minnesota

 * Contact: University of Minnesota Libraries
 * Location: Minneapolis & St Paul, Minnesota
 * Link for more details, if available: Forthcoming


 * Contact: Nancy Sims
 * Location: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities,
 * Link for more details, if available: Open Access Week at the U of Minnesota: The University of Minnesota Libraries will be hosting a series of events throughout the week, on both the Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses. We will offer two sessions of hands-on workshops for graduate student authors with practical information on making one's own publications open access. Library staff will host outreach and awareness tables Monday through Thursday at libraries and other major gathering places throughout campus, with videos, handouts, and OA-themed giveaways for all comers. The and we will be tweeting at http://www.twitter.com/oaumn UMN Open Access Week website (still being updated from last year).


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New York

 * Contact: [mailto:kp2002@columbia.edu Kathryn Pope]
 * Location: Columbia University
 * Link for more details, if available: Our Scholarly Communication Program website


 * Contact: Lorre Smith
 * Location: University Library, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY
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 * Contact: Lorre Smith
 * Location:University at Albany, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY
 * OA Week Banner: University Library and Science Library exhibits will help raise awareness of Open Access Week and fundamental information regarding open access to scholarly research.


 * Contact: conference@openvideoalliance.org
 * Location: Fashion Institute of Technology: 7th Ave at 27th St
 * Open Video Conference: The Open Video Conference (OVC) is a multi-day summit of thought leaders in business, academia, art, and activism to explore the future of online video. The first Open Video Conference was host to over 800 guests, including 150 workshop leaders, panelists and speakers. Over 8,000 viewers tuned in from home to watch the live broadcast. The event earned coverage in WIRED, NewTeeVee, BBC News, Filmmaker Magazine, and The New Yorker.

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Pennsylvania

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Washington

 * Contact: Mel DeSart
 * Location: University of Washington
 * Link for more details, if available: Three events - one general, one on OA journal publishing, and one on copyright / author rights.


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Washington, DC

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