Events
Open Access Week 2009 comes to Wellington!
Date: 19/10/2009 - 23/10/2009
Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand would like to thank Sigi Jöttkandt from Open Humanities Press for bringing OA Week to Wellington.
As part of the worldwide celebration of Open Access week, the VUW Library and the School of English, Film, Theatre, & Media Studies are hosting a series of events to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research. Find out about your rights as an author, learn about open access publishing and how to start an OA journal, discover open educational resources, the role of institutional repositories in New Zealand and more.
Open Access is a growing international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. It encourages the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, everywhere, for the advancement and enjoyment of science and society. Open Access Week builds on the momentum started by the student-led national day of action in 2007 and carried by the 120 campuses in 27 countries that celebrated Open Access Day in 2008.
Open Access Week Programme
Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand
Monday 19 October, 1pm-2pm
Location: Easterfield Building, Room 206, Kelburn
Jane Hornibrook and Stephanie Pietkiewicz will present on open access and the Creative Commons licences. Learn about how to secure your rights as an author with the SPARC author addendum and how to take the open access pledge.
Open Access Publishing Workshop Tuesday, 20 October, 12.30pm-2pm Location: Old Kirk Building, Room 301, Kelburn
Fergus Barrowman from Victoria University Press, Stuart Yeates from the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre, and Sigi Jöttkandt from Open Humanities Press will hold a workshop on open access publishing. Bring your laptop and your ideas for an open access journal and get started through the new free journal hosting service with the Open Humanities Alliance.
Open Educational Resources/WikiEducator
Wednesday, 21 October, 1pm-2pm
Location: Rankine Brown Building (Main Library), Lower floor, Room 105
Wayne Mackintosh, the founding Director of the International Centre for Open Education based at Otago Polytechnic, will speak by video conference on his work to help the freedom culture develop a free version of the entire education curriculum by 2015.
Institutional Repositories Roundtable Thursday, 22 October, 12.30pm-2pm
Library Seminar Room, Level 3, Rankine Brown (Main Library) Building
Emma Shepheard-Walwyn will present on the Victoria University of Wellington Library’s Research Archive, and explain how VUW academics can archive their scholarly research and make it freely available to the rest of the world.
Rowena Cullen and Brenda Chawner from the School of Information Management will discuss their research on New Zealand academics’ attitudes towards open access. Join a lively discussion about what NZ academics love - and love to hate - about institutional repositories.
Net Neutrality
Friday, 23 October, 1-2pm
Library Seminar Room, Level 3, Rankine Brown (Main Library) Building
Jordan Carter from Internet NZ will present on the importance of net neutrality for open access and other open content initiatives.
CC-BY OA Week images used here are available from the Open Access Week Website
Sponsor/organisation
Victoria University of Wellington's Library and the School of English, Film, Theatre, & Media Studies.Event details
Region: Wellington
Charges/Fees: Free
Contact person: Sigi Jöttkandt
Contact position: Organiser
Contact email: sigij@openhumanitiespress.org
