Events

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.

The Open Education Global Conference is where the world meets to discuss how opening education helps us achieve universal access, equity, innovation and opportunity in education. The OE Global conference is the most internationally diverse conference devoted exclusively to open education, attracting researchers, practitioners, policy makers, educators and students from more than 35 countries to discuss and explore how Open Education advances educational practices around the world.

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

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 Wednesday, March 03, 2021, between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m in Teams. If you would like to discuss a particular type of OER/repository/subject area during the workshop, please contact us with discussion topic by end of day, February 26, 2021.

Starts: March 03 11 a.m.
Registration closes: March 02 5 p.m.

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?

Please join us on March 4at 2:00 pm Eastern/11 am Pacific for CopyTalk to hear about the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Open Educational Resources, the latest in the series of best practices in fair use from American University’s Center for Media & Social Impact, the Washington College of Law, and the Association of Research Libraries.  

The target audiences for this webinar, presented jointly by SPARC Europe and EIFL, are "Open Science policymakers, Research Funding Organizations and Research Performing Organizations managers, librarians, repository managers and academic institutional copyright experts." More information

 

James Skidmore + Myrto Provida

March 23, 2021, 1:00-2:15 PM

Date: Thursday, April 22, 2021
Time: 1 p.m. ET
Register here (all are welcome): https://bit.ly/39Wd707