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In the News: Locally, Nationally, and Internationally

 

Open Access

Balancing the Scales: The Role of Fair Dealing in Canada

(Above webcast was part of Fair Dealing Week – February 25–March 1, 2019)

 

New checklist helps detect deceptive publishers

(Above news release by the University of Toronto)

 

We applaud the Cleveland Museum of Art’s new open-access policy—and here’s what remains to be done

(Above news release by the Wikimedia Foundation)

 

 

Open Data

Data verse-Archivematica Integration Now Available for Testing

(Above news release from the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL))

 

Developing a Library Strategy for 3D and Virtual Reality

(Above podcast from EDUCAUSE Review)

 

New Portage Training Resources Available

(Above news release by the Portage Training Expert Group, launched by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL))

 

 

Open Education

Open Education Week (March 4-8, 2019)

(A global event held annually to recognize and showcase open education in teaching and learning and excellence in education)

 

Open in Action 2019

(Above BCcampus event held on March 6, 2019 featuring speakers from UBC, BCIT, SFU, KPU and BCcampus)

 

Student Savings at Scale: LibreTexts

(Above impact story about open textbooks by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition))

 

Recently added items to cIRcle:

 

Database of Religious History collection:

The Arch of Constantine

Chinese Esoteric Buddhism (Tang Tantrism)

Delphi

Medieval Śrīvaiṣṇavism

Roman Divination

Roman Imperial Cult

 

UBC Library and Archives collection:

Federated Geospatial Data Discovery for Canada: Geodisy

Positive Space Working Group Final Report

 

UBC Lectures, Seminars, and Symposia collection:

The Legacy of Bambule (1970): On the Perils of the Memory Culture of the German 68 Movement

The Metaphysics of Data Capital

 

UBC Faculty Research and Publications collection:

Blending integrated knowledge translation with global health governance: an approach for advancing action on a wicked problem

Extent, trends, and determinants of controller/reliever balance in mild asthma: a 14-year population-based study

Policy review on the management of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia by community health workers in Mozambique

Improving microservice-based applications with runtime placement adaptation

Interventions on children’s and adolescents’ physical activity and sedentary behaviour: protocol for a systematic review from a sex/gender perspective

 

UBC Press collection:

The New NDP: Moderation, Modernization, and Political Marketing [Book Supplement]

 

Undergraduate research collection:

The Potential Effects of Tethered-Based Forest Harvesting Systems on Soil Disturbance in Coastal British Columbia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RSVP for events and learn more about what Open Access and Open Education means for researchers, students and faculty.

“Open scholarship, which encompasses open access, open data, open educational resources, and all other forms of openness in the scholarly and research environment, is changing how knowledge is created and shared.” Association of Research Libraries Open Scholarship

In this session, we’ll explore ideas of scholarly practice in the digital age and how they can inform or be applied to teaching and learning. How has scholarly practice changed and what are the possibilities that open practices and platforms open up when students and faculty members become co-creators engaged in meaningful, generative work?

We’ll look at emerging practices at UBC that are engaging students as producers of knowledge using open platforms to align classroom spaces with scholarly practice.

Part of Open Education Week

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Event Details

Date: March 27, 2017

Time: 12:00 pm- 1:30 pm

Where: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Lillooet Room 301

Registration Required: At this time we require everyone – UBC affiliated or otherwise – to register for the CTLT events system. If you already have a CWL please sign in. However, if you do not have a campus-wide login, then please register for a BASIC cwl account (you will see basic as the bottom option on the 3rd screen).

 

Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its goal is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Attend one of the many Open Education events at UBC and UBC Library throughout March. 

Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thons    

Date & Location: March 18 at the Belkin Art Gallery

Time: 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Date & Location: March 19 at the Western Front Society

Time: 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Sign up to participate.

 

Open Scholarly Practice

In this session, we’ll explore ideas of scholarly practice in the digital age and how they can inform or be applied to teaching and learning.

Date & Location: March 27, Irving K Barber Learning Centre, Lillooet Room 301

Time: 12 to 1:30 p.m.

Register for the event.

 

The Failure of Access: Rethinking Open Education

 Join us to explore the goals, failures, and successes of open education. We’ll tackle such questions as: is open education succeeding in being a transformative movement that makes learning more accessible? What are the criteria and successes that should be used to measure if the open education movement is a success? What more needs to be done?

Date & Location: March 28, Harbour Centre, Simon Fraser University, Room 1430

Time: 5:30 to 8 :45 p.m.

Register for the event.

 

[citation needed] – Librarians Improving Wikipedia

Date & Location: March 30, Terrace Lounge, iSchool, 4th Floor IKBLC

12:30 to 2:00 p.m.

Join us in celebration of Open Education Week for “Librarians Improving Wikipedia.” For an hour we will work together to add reliable citations to Wikipedia articles. Come for as long as you can. Light snacks will be available.

Register for the event.