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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>[Forwarding from the Canadian
Association of Research Libraries. --Peter Suber.]<br>
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<b>National Interactive Q&A with John Wilbanks on Digital
Repositories and the Digital Commons<br>
</b>Monday, October 19th, 1:00-2:00 Eastern Time<br>
Presented by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries<br><br>
Register for this free event at <br>
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</b>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. <br>
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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
<b>Monday October 19, 2009</b>. The webcast was prerecorded and can be
watched immediately before the Q&A session, or earlier. <b>The live
Q&A session will be held from 1:00 to 2:00pm </b>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].<br>
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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. <br>
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In<i> Locks and Gears: Digital Repositories and the Digital Commons</i>,
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. <br><br>
Register for this free event at <br>
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Watch the pre-recorded webcast of <i>Locks and Gears: Digital
Repositories and the Digital Commons</i> at <br>
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<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/commonknowledge/2009/05/video_of_talk_online.php">
http://scienceblogs.com/commonknowledge/2009/05/video_of_talk_online.php</a>
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Diego Argáez<br>
Research Officer / Agent de recherche<br>
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Canadian Association of Research Libraries / Association des
bibliothèques de recherche du Canada<br>
Room / Pièce 238, Pavillon Morisset Hall, 65 University Private<br>
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 9A5<br>
Phone / Téléphone : (613) 562-5800 ext. 2427<br>
Fax / Télécopieur : (613) 562-5297<br>
E-mail / Courriel :
<a href="mailto:carlrpo@uottawa.ca">carlrpo@uottawa.ca</a><br>
<a href="http://www.carl-abrc.ca/" eudora="autourl">www.carl-abrc.ca<br>
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