[BOAI] CARL and Internatinal Open Access Week

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from the Canadian Association of 
Research Libraries.  --Peter Suber.]


National Interactive Q&A with John Wilbanks on 
Digital Repositories and the Digital Commons
Monday, October 19th, 1:00-2:00 Eastern Time
Presented by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries

Register for this free event at
<https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=172205&sessionid=1&key=4B7AD65E4EEE368CA98A598485C2AB37&sourcepage=register>https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=172205&sessionid=1&key=4B7AD65E4EEE368CA98A598485C2AB37&sourcepage=register
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries 
(CARL) encourages open access initiatives in 
scholarly communication. Research is much more 
valuable when it is shared as it enables new 
research to build on earlier findings to help 
fuel further discoveries and innovations that are beneficial to society.

To kick off Open Access Week, CARL is sponsoring 
a free webcast and Q&A session with John 
Wilbanks, VP of Science at Creative Commons, on 
Monday October 19, 2009. The webcast was 
prerecorded and can be watched immediately before 
the Q&A session, or earlier. The live Q&A session 
will be held from 1:00 to 2:00pm via interactive 
Chat. The session will be held in English, 
however, participants will have the opportunity 
to ask their questions in English or French [with 
responses given in English in both cases].

John serves on the Advisory Boards of the U.S. 
National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central, 
the Open Knowledge Foundation, the Open Knowledge 
Definition, the International Advisory Board of 
the Prix Ars Electronica’s Digital Communities 
awards, and on the Board of Directors of the 
Fedora Commons digital repository organization. 
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from 
Tulane University, studied modern letters at the 
Université de Paris IV (La Sorbonne), and was a 
research affiliate at the MIT Computer Science 
and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the 
project on Mathematics and Computation.

In Locks and Gears: Digital Repositories and the 
Digital Commons, Wilbanks discusses research 
libraries’ role in scholarly communication, their 
roles in the emerging digital commons/repository 
infrastructure, sustainability of those roles, 
and other issues concerning the challenges of 
improving the dissemination and preservation of 
research outputs and tapping into the full 
potential the World Wide Web to successfully 
arrive at a more dynamic and open scholarly communication system.

Register for this free event at
<https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=172205&sessionid=1&key=4B7AD65E4EEE368CA98A598485C2AB37&sourcepage=register>https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=172205&sessionid=1&key=4B7AD65E4EEE368CA98A598485C2AB37&sourcepage=register 


Watch the pre-recorded webcast of Locks and 
Gears: Digital Repositories and the Digital Commons at
<http://scienceblogs.com/commonknowledge/2009/05/video_of_talk_online.php>http://scienceblogs.com/commonknowledge/2009/05/video_of_talk_online.php


Diego Argáez
Research Officer / Agent de recherche

Canadian Association of Research Libraries / 
Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada
Room / Pièce 238, Pavillon Morisset Hall, 65 University Private
Ottawa, Ontario  K1N 9A5
Phone / Téléphone :  (613) 562-5800 ext. 2427
Fax / Télécopieur : (613) 562-5297
E-mail / Courriel : <mailto:carlrpo at uottawa.ca>carlrpo at uottawa.ca
www.carl-abrc.ca

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