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Morning Session
The morning session (10.00 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.) will deal with theoretical, policy and legal issues on open access in the European environment.
10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Robert Davies will describe the work being done under a new European Commission Best Practice Network to expose digital content held by libraries, museums and archives at local and regional levels in all 27 European member states for harvesting and re-use in line with the standards and architectures for interoperability being developed under the European Digital Library Initiative.
Speaker bio:
Rob Davies (MDR Partners) is Scientific Coordinator of the EDLocal Best Practice Network. He has been involved for a number of years in work to develop the role of public libraries and cultural heritage institutions in the delivery of services based on electronic content.
11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
In this session, an overview of the Alliance Digital Repository service’s development, administration, funding, policies, and agreements will be offered. These components, along with content, metadata, software, hardware, and infrastructure, are the foundation of a twelve-library consortial digital repository service being developed by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries. The Alliance experience can serve as a model for other institutions, including those in Eastern Europe, interested in a collaborative approach to sharing open source and resource sharing initiatives.
By combining perspectives from the consortial level and the University of Denver’s experience as an Alliance member library, a comprehensive presentation of the opportunities and challenges presented by balancing multiple institutions’ priorities and needs will be made. The functional requirements of supporting open access while respecting creator rights and potential revenue streams, as well as content, metadata preparation, and best practices followed and developed will also be addressed.
Speaker bios:
Jessica Branco Colati is the Alliance Digital Repository Project Director at the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries.
Greg Colati is the Digital Initiatives Coordinator at Penrose Library, University of Denver.
Moderator:
The morning session will be moderated by Dr. Marta Deyrup, Director of the Elizabeth Ann Seton Center for Women’s Studies, Seton Hall University.
Lunch Break (12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.)
Please note that lunch is not provided as part of the pre-conference.
Afternoon Session
The afternoon session (1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.) will deal with scholarly publishing models and praxis.
This session will provide an introduction to the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and an overview of the Open Journal Systems (OJS) online publication management software (http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs). It will include an examination of the publishing process, peer review and editorial workflow, web site management, tips for increasing journal visibility, suggestions on recruiting content and editors, and a discussion of library-based publishing efforts at the University of Kansas and elsewhere. This half-day, hands-on workshop is aimed at editors, publishers, librarians, and others interested in learning about this free, open source software that is being used by over 1000 journals around the world. Participants will come away with the ability to start up and operate their own online journal management system.
Speaker bios:
Kevin Stranack is PKP Associate
at Simon Fraser University Library.
Brian Rosenblum is Scholarly Digital Initiatives Librarian at the University of Kansas.
Moderator:
The afternoon session will be moderated by Dr. Gary Pitkin, Dean of Libraries and Professor, James A. Michener Library, University of Northern Colorado.
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