SLAIS Open Access Class Blog

Thanks to everyone who took the 2008 Open Access Class! I only wish the class hadn’t been so short, that there would have been more time for everyone to get to know each other.

Here are links to a few of the wonderfully creative final projects, posted with permission. I hope to hear back from more students with permission to post to their projects, perhaps when everyone is back from their summer travels.

Sue Bradley. A Guide to Open Access Environmental and Occupational Health Resources
http://members.shaw.ca/suembradley/OA/

De Freitas, Francesca Song for Everyone

Brie Grey-Noble. Media Studies Guide to Open Access http://oamediastudies.googlepages.com/

Christina Hanson. oamap: Open Access Mandates and Practice
A research proposal for open access publishing attitudes and habits in the context of OA Mandates in universities, research institutions, and funding agencies
http://oamap.pbwiki.com/FrontPage

Xumei Lei. Preserving OA Material
http://preserveoamaterial.pbwiki.com/

Lee Losell. GEODYSSEY
Discussion, resource discovery, and sharing of information about geographic information librarianship. http://geolibrarian.wordpress.com/

Erika Luebbe. Open Access for HIV AIDS
http://openaccess.weebly.com/

Michael McCarthy. The Open Access Environmentalist.
http://openaccessenvironmentalist.wordpress.com/

Ro McKernan. Open Access Resources for Public Libraries: A Semi-Exhaustive Resource

Qiong Yang. Chemistry OA: Open Access to Scholarly Literature, Data and Lab Experiments in Chemistry
http://chemistryoa.pbwiki.com/

Update July 3: Peter Suber has linked to these projects on Open Access News

Rea Devakos (T-Space) is not able to come to Vancouver this week. We are looking into the possibility of a distance presentation instead.

Brian Owen’s speech has been rescheduled to 9:30 a.m. on May 31st.

Jean-Claude Guédon of the Université de Montréal, a world-renowned open access advocate, is in town for the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, and will try to drop in to visit on the 31st (a.m.). Guédon was among the drafters of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.

Hilde Colenbrander (UBC cIRcle) and Rea Devakos (U of T – TSpace): June 7th – 11:00 a.m.

Marcia Bergen, a SLAIS professional experience student who has been working with Hilde Colenbrander on cIRcle and myself with E-LIS, will join us on the 7th to talk about her experiences with these open access archives.

May 8 2008

Advance work: reading and selecting presentation and project topics

Time to start preparing for class! Please read the Advanced Readings listed on the Course Syllabus, and familiarize yourself with the resources.

To select your presentation and project topic, please sign up for the Class Wiki and follow the instructions there
http://oaclass.pbwiki.com/

If you have any questions, please contact the professor. Office hours are by appointment (usually teleconference).