Greetings POSE participants!
We hope that you have been enjoying the warm spring weather. For the last two weeks we have been learning together about open access in open scholarship and it has been inspiring to see the different ways that you are thinking about open access in your disciplinary context. We encourage you to contribute to the open access shared reflection and complete the open access activities. If you haven’t had a chance to read through the comments on the activities, they are full of incredible nuggets of wisdom and ideas from a variety of institutional perspectives.
OA Sessions
We are also excited for the Open Access workshops and chats:
- Attend the OA Discussion: Has the Open Access Movement Failed on Wednesday, May 14 at 11am Pacific
The open access movement began in the 1990s focusing on unrestricted access to scholarly published works and maintaining authors’ rights to their research. Advocates of the open access movement, including scholars, academic institutions, funding organizations, and libraries, have worked to provide equitable access to research while mitigating the costs associated with OA models (e.g. article processing fees). However, after 20 years of advocacy and negotiated agreements with publishers, some proponents of the open access movement have declared the initiative a failure. The facilitated POSE Open Access Discussion will focus on an interview with Richard Poydner in The Scholarly Kitchen. To prepare for this session, please read the following article and the comments: Where Did the Open Access Movement Go Wrong?: An Interview with Richard Poynder.
More information and registration is available here: https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/event/3883439
- View the recording of the OA Workshop about Coalition Publica: Supporting and Advancing Canada’s Open Publishing Infrastructure
As Canadian research institutions begin to work collaboratively to shepherd scholarly publishing into an open future, shared infrastructure has proven critical to this transformation. Coalition Publica, a partnership between two Canadian-led publishing platforms, has stepped in to provide non-commercial, open source national infrastructure for digital scholarly publishing, dissemination, and research. Working closely with research libraries across the country, Coalition Publica provides essential support to Canadian academic journals and conducts extensive research into the Canadian scholarly publishing ecosystem. In this session which took place last week, colleagues from Coalition Publica shared some of the work they are doing to support and advocate for the Canadian diamond open access landscape.
The recording can be accessed here: https://pose.open.ubc.ca/pose-open-access-workshop-coalition-publica-supporting-and-advancing-canadas-open-publishing-infrastructure/
Looking Ahead
We have two more weeks to go in the Open Access unit and then we will shift gears into Open Research in June. We look forward to continuing to explore open scholarship with you!
Sincerely,
The POSE Facilitation Team
