Providence College Open Access Week

"Copyright Criminals" Discussion

Phillips Memorial Library — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:00:00 PDT

COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright law and money. The film showcases many of hip-hop music’s founding figures like Public Enemy, De La Soul and Digital Underground, as well as emerging artists such as audiovisual remixers Eclectic Method. It also provides first-person interviews with artists who have been sampled, such as Clyde Stubblefield — James Brown's drummer and the world's most sampled musician — and commentary by another highly sampled musician, funk legend George Clinton.

Computers, mobile phones and other interactive technologies are changing our relationships with media, blurring the line between producer and consumer and radically changing what it means to be creative. As artists find more inventive ways to insert old influences into new material, COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS poses the question: Can you own a sound?

Phillips Memorial Library+Commons Faculty Open House

Phillips Memorial Library — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:00:00 PDT

The Phillips Memorial Library+Commons will be holding a Faculty Open House to offer information about the various services the Library+Commons provides to Providence College faculty.

Connecting the Dots between Open Access and Open Educational Resources

SPARC — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:00:00 PDT

On September 27, Cable Green of Creative Commons and Nicole Allen at Student PIRGs gave an Open Educational Resources (OER) dove into the basics of OERs, the relevance of OERs to the library community and the intersections of OER and Open Access.

World Bank and SPARC Announce Open Access Week 2012 - Liveblog and Webcast

World Bank and SPARC — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:00:00 PDT

Open Access Week, now in its sixth year, is a global event which promotes Open Access as a new norm in scholarship and research. SPARC(The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and the World Bank will co-sponsor the kickoff event for Open Access Week 2012 in Washington, DC. The event will feature a distinguished panel of speakers representing a broad range of stakeholders in the Open Access movement—researchers, students, policy makers, publishers and academics—who will discuss why Open Access is an imperative to them and their work

The World Bank was recently named a SPARC Innovator for its implementation of a new open access policy, which included the launch of the World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR). The World Bank opened its data to the public in 2010.

Speakers:

Michael Carroll, Professor of Law, American University and founding Board Member, Creative Commons
Matt Cooper, President, The National Association of Graduate-Professional Students
Maricel Kann, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland and member, PubMed Central National Advisory Committee, NIH.
Carlos Rossel, Publisher, The World Bank
Neil Thakur, Special Assistant to the Deputy Director, Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

The 90-minute panel will be moderated by Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC, with ample time for questions from audience members. The event will be webcast and recorded for use both during and after Open Access Week. Participants are encouraged to post questions for the panelists on this site in advance. Join the LIVE conversation on Monday, October 22, 2012 at 4:00 pm ET (20:00 GMT). Follow updates on Twitter with hashtag #WBLive

For information about Open Access week events and information please go to http://www.openaccessweek.org.