Events

The Open Scholarship Committee brings you Open Access Day - a day-long conference of speakers and workshops discussing the various methods, benefits and challenges of Open Access, and the services and resources available to scholars across the university.

This event is free, and participants may attend all or some of the sessions. Registration is required.

Instructors are increasingly including open educational resources in their teaching material. Copyright, licensing, sourcing, and selection of OERs will be discussed Tuesday, March 3, 2020 between 10am and 12pm in LIB 323.

Please contact kblair@uwaterloo.ca or kdweaver@uwaterloo.ca  to register by February 28, 2020.

This talk is presented by Professor James Skidmore, who describes the session as follows:

Learn how to search for and ethically use open educational resources in your course materials. This introductory workshop covers copyright, licensing, sourcing, and selection of OERs. Join us for this interactive session Friday, October 23, 2020, between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.

Please contact Kathryn Blair (kblair@uwaterloo.ca) or Carmen Peters (cpeters@uwaterloo.ca) to register.

OPERAS is the Research Infrastructure supporting open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities in the European Research Area. The 2nd OPERAS Annual Conference “Opening up Social Sciences and Humanities in Europe: from Promises to Reality” will outline the current situation of scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in Europe and how it can adopt widely openness as a normal practice.

Improving Research Collaboration and Transparency: Using the Open Science Framework to Enhance Your Research Projects

Kevin Read, a health sciences librarian at the University of Saskatchewan, discusses the Open Science Framework, a research tool that supports collaboration, data management, and transparency throughout the research lifecycle.

Plan S Rights Retention Strategy Webinar

Starting in January 2021, cOAlition S Organisations are changing their grant conditions to mandate Open Access for all publications reporting original research supported in whole or in part by their funding. cOAlition S Organisations offer three routes that allow their funded researchers to be compliant with this policy. Authors can publish in fully Open Access journals and platforms, they can self-archive a version of their paper, or they can publish in journals that are under a Transformative Arrangement.

BCcampus has listed programming by the organization and affiliated institutions for OEW.

Policy is one of the key ingredients for sustainable, effective open education efforts. In this special Open Education Week webcast, members of the SPARC policy team will provide a timely update on the state of open education policy across the U.S. and Canada. What are the key trends in successful state and province-wide efforts? What are the opportunities with the new U.S. administration? What can community members do to advance open education policy in your context?