World Bank and SPARC Announce Open Access Week 2012 - Liveblog and Webcast
Location
Livestream to be Viewed in Phillips Memorial Library E-Classroom
Event Website
http://live.worldbank.org/world-bank-and-sparc-announce-open-access-week-2012-liveblog-webcast
Start Date
22-10-2012 4:00 PM
End Date
22-10-2012 5:30 PM
Description
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.
World Bank and SPARC Announce Open Access Week 2012 - Liveblog and Webcast
Livestream to be Viewed in Phillips Memorial Library E-Classroom
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.
https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/oaw/2012/Schedule/1
