Digital Libraries a la Carte: Choices for the Future

Thursday, 25 August 2005

Module 4: Open Access and Institutional Repositories

8:30 hrs Registration, Coffee/tea (Coffee corner)

8:45 hrs Welcome and Introduction (EZ 4)

Hans Geleijnse
Chief Information Officer, Director IT Services and Librarian, Tilburg University, NL

9:00 hrs Open Access: How to Get There from Here (EZ 4)

  • how institutions with an interest in open access (OA) can help it move forward
  • why OA depends primarily on the decisions of researchers themselves
  • what universities can do to promote OA
  • what librarians can do to promote OA
  • what funding agencies can do to promote OA
  • what we can learn from the public-access policy of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • how different stakeholders can improve the system of scholarly communication,
  • full abstract
Peter Suber
Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge, Washington, D.C. and Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, USA

10:00 hrs Discussion (EZ 4)

Peter Suber
Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge, Washington, D.C. and Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, USA

10:30 hrs Coffee/tea (Coffee corner)

11:00 hrs Here, there .... and not yet everywhere. Institutional repositories and what they hold, now and for the future (EZ 4)

  • what are researchers doing about institutional repositories?
  • self archiving by researchers
  • institutional repositories represent, a movement in its infancy
  • what can we expect of institutional repositories in the future
  • where will institutional repositories fit into the wider picture that Peter Suber will expound upon later in this session?
  • full abstract
  • Alma's PowerPoint presentation [PDF file]
Dr Alma Swan
Director, Key Perspectives Ltd, UK

12:00 hrs Discussion (EZ 4)

Dr Alma Swan
Director, Key Perspectives Ltd, UK

12:30 hrs Lunch (University restaurant Tilbury nr 3 - building H)

14:00 hrs Practical Workshop on Institutional Repositories (EZ 4 and break-out rooms)

Sylvia Van Peteghem
Chief Librarian, University of Ghent, BEL

15:30 hrs Coffee/tea (Coffee corner)

16:00 hrs Practical Workshop on Repositories, Copyrights and Creative Commons for Scholarly Communication (EZ 4 and break-out rooms)

  • copyrights as an impediment to the sharing of research output
  • "scholarly property rights" and alternatives like the use of creative commons licenses
  • discussion of the use creative commons licenses for scholarly communication, lead by some practical examples
  • Esther's PowerPoint presentation [PDF file]
Esther Hoorn
Information Specialist and Researcher Law and ICT, University of Groningen, Faculty of Law, NL

17:30 hrs Wrap-up and Review (EZ 4)

Hans Geleijnse
Chief Information Officer, Director IT Services and Librarian, Tilburg University, NL

17:45 hrs End of Sessions

18:15 hrs Joint Dinner (University restaurant Tilbury nr 3 - building H)

19.45 hrs End of Programme

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