Open Access Week

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The University Libraries at Virginia Tech began sponsoring events for the globally celebrated Open Access Week in 2012. Find information about open access and this year's schedule at the library's open access guide, http://guides.lib.vt.edu/oa/.

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2014 OA Week Panel
Rivers, Caitlin; Matheis, Christian; Lazar, Iuliana M.; Sutherland, Michelle; Tideman, Nicolaus; Wynne, Randolph H. (2014-10-31)
2015 Open Access Week Keynote Address: Victoria Stodden
Stodden, Victoria (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2015-11-03)
Victoria Stodden gave the keynote address for Open Access Week 2015. "Scholarly communication in the era of big data and big computation" was sponsored by the University Libraries, Computational Modeling and Data Analytics, the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Statistics, the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis (LISA), and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute. Victoria Stodden is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She completed both her PhD in statistics and her law degree at Stanford University. Her research centers on the multifaceted problem of enabling reproducibility in computational science. This includes studying adequacy and robustness in replicated results, designing and implementing validation systems, developing standards of openness for data and code sharing, and resolving legal and policy barriers to disseminating reproducible research.
Altmetrics
McMillan, Gail (2013-08-07)
This is a brief introduction to the topic of "alternative metrics" for University Libraries.
Center for Open Science; Reproducible Research Lecture/Workshop
Soderberg, Courtney (2014-10-31)
Courtney Soderberg, from the Center for Open Science, gives a lecture/workshop reproducible research.
Connecting the Opens: Open Access, Open Data, Open Educational Resources, Establishing Your Online Scholarly Presence
McNabb, Kayla B.; Young, Philip; Petters, Jonathan L.; Walz, Anita R.; Surprenant, Aimée (Virginia Tech, 2023-10-23)
The 2023 Open Access Forum features presentations on open access, open data, open educational resources, and establishing an online scholarly presence, followed by Q&A.
Copyright in Scholarship & Instruction and an Open Access Primer
McMillan, Gail (Digital Library and Archives, 2012-02-06)
Increase your understanding of US copyright law, particularly US Code Title 17, Sect. 106-108, and your appreciation of rights and responsibilities with regard to intellectual property issues that faculty and students regularly face. Questions and concerns from the VT community will illustrate the legal code and university policies developed this spring will be revealed. The Open Access Primer provides information and links to better inform ourselves about the issues as well as the resources available. Drawing on resources provided by such OA experts as Peter Suber and the recent ALA Midwinter 2012 panel, we can discuss a library policy or resolution.
Destination Areas Global Speaker Series, October 26-27, 2017
(Virginia Tech, 2017-10)
A flier for the 2017 Destination Areas Global Speaker Series, featuring guest speaker Lorena Barba.
DLA: Who We Are and What We Do
McMillan, Gail; Gilbertson, Keith; Hall, Nathan; Lawrence, Anne S.; Weeks, Kimberli; Wills, D. Jane; Xie, Zhiwu (2012-05-24)
In Service Day (ISD) 2012 presentation about the Digital Library and Archives (DLA).
Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Progress, Issues, and Prospects
McMillan, Gail; Fox, Edward A.; Srinivasan, Venkat (Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia Tech, 2009)
ETDs form an important component of global scholarship and research output. Many universities around the world require, accept, or at least encourage students to submit their theses and dissertations electronically. The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), which promotes ETD activities worldwide, now has over 779,000 ETDs accessible through its Union Catalog, run by Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). Other NDLTD partners provide powerful tools for searching, browsing, and visualization...
ETDs and Open Access: the Digital Landscape of Open Access Publishing in the Graduate School Arena
McMillan, Gail (2013-10-31)
Gail McMillan will discuss her research on the effects of open access for theses and dissertations on publishing opportunities for graduate students.
ETDs and Open Access: Understanding the Digital Landscape of Open Access in the Graduate School Arena
McMillan, Gail (2013-11-12)
McMillan presented data from the 2013 ETD base line survey of institutions and the 2011-2012 surveys of journal editors and university press directors about their ETD policies.
ETDs and Open Access: Understanding the Digital Landscape of Open Access in the Graduate School Arena
McMillan, Gail (2013-10-21)
During this Open Access Week panel, Gail McMillan shared data from some of the ETD projects she has collaborated on, including the 2013 ETD base line survey of institutions and the 2011-2012 surveys of journal editors and university press directors about their ETD policies.
ETDs@VT: Copyright--Your Rights and Responsibilities
McMillan, Gail (Virginia Tech. Graduate School, 2011-10-11)
Gail McMillan discusses copyright, permissions and representing other authors' works in your ETD. Recorded 18 October 2011 at the Graduate Life Center, Virginia Tech.
For the Public Good: Research Impact and the Promise of Open Access
DePauw, Karen P.; Seyam, Mohammed; Roy, Siddhartha; Abbas, Montasir M.; Hole, Brian; Potter, Peter J. (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2016-10-24)
As a land-grant institution, Virginia Tech is committed to research that meaningfully engages with the vital concerns of our day such as feeding, building, and empowering a healthy world. How does Virginia Tech’s commitment to engagement fit with the Open Access vision for unrestricted online access to scholarly research? Have OA journals, public repositories, and federal mandates simply made a researcher’s life more complicated or could OA be the key to unlocking research impact on a global scale? And what are the implications for tenure and promotion? Join us for a public forum devoted to these questions and more on Monday, October 24, at 6:30 pm in Torgersen 1100. We expect a lively discussion featuring panelists from the Virginia Tech community and ample opportunity for audience Q&A. Montasir (“Monty”) Abbas is Associate Professor in the Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech, where he also serves as Coordinator of the Transportation, Infrastructure and Systems Engineering Program. His interests are in real-time traffic control, traffic flow theory, driver behavior, ITS, transportation modeling and safety, artificial intelligence and systems optimization. Abbas currently serves as President of VT’s Faculty Senate. Karen DePauw is Vice President and Dean for Graduate Education at Virginia Tech. An internationally recognized scholar in the fields of adapted physical activity, disability sport and disability studies, she holds academic appointments in the Departments of Sociology and Human Nutrition, Foods & Exercise. As an academic administrator, she has held key leadership roles in graduate education including serving as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Council of Graduate Schools (2010) and Chair of the GRE Board (2013-2014). Brian Hole is founder and CEO of Ubiquity Press, a researcher-focused publishing company that specializes in open access academic journals and open data. Prior to that, he managed the British Library’s LIFE3 project on costing digital preservation, and the DryadUK project, which developed a sustainable framework for integrating Open Data archiving into scientific publisher work flows. When not engaged in his publishing work, Hole is working on a part-time PhD at University College London, focusing on public archaeology in India, specifically at issues of community engagement and utilization of cultural heritage. Peter Potter is Director, Publishing Strategy, at Virginia Tech. In this role he is charged with assessing the research and scholarly environments at VT in order to guide the University Libraries’ long-term planning in the area of publishing services. A historian by training (B.A. Virginia Tech; M.A. University of Virginia), Potter has devoting his professional career to scholarly publishing, most recently serving as editor in chief at Cornell University Press. Siddhartha Roy is doctoral student and graduate researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. He works with Dr. Marc Edwards researching failure mechanisms in potable water infrastructure and is a member of the Virginia Tech Research Team that has been working to resolve the water quality issues in Flint, Michigan. Mohammed Seyam is a doctoral student in Computer Science at Virginia Tech. He earned an undergraduate degree in information systems from Mansoura University and a master’s degree in information systems from Cairo University, both in Egypt. Among his many activities on campus he served as the graduate student representative on the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors during the 2015-16 academic year. A vocal advocate of OA, he traveled to Washington to take part in OpenCon 2014, a conference for researchers on open access, open data, and open educational resources."
Gail McMillan's Faculty Activity Report for FY'12
McMillan, Gail (2012-06-29)
Introduction to Open Access
Young, Philip (2012-10-16)
This is a general introduction to open access that describes the two roads to OA, self-archiving and publishing in an OA journal. Also covered are predatory publishers and the importance of open licensing. Library services in support of OA are described, as well as actions that faculty can take. Prepared for a FDI course in conjunction with a copyright course. This presentation is about 35 minutes live.
Introduction to Open Access & Copyright
Young, Philip; McMillan, Gail (2013-02-18)
In this FDI (Faculty Development Institute) class at Virginia Tech, the goal is for attendees to gain a better understanding of Open Access--unrestricted access to scholarship, increase their mastery of their copyrights, and learn how to take advantage of the Libraries' Subvention Fund and increase access to their work.
Introduction to Open Access and Copyright
Young, Philip; McMillan, Gail (2013-10-21)
This presentation introduces open access and copyright and was given as part of Open Access Week 2013 at Virginia Tech.
Open Access 101
Young, Philip; McMillan, Gail (2012-10-17)
This short course was provided to faculty, staff, and students during Open Access Week at Virginia Tech to help them (1) gain a better understanding of Open Access--unrestricted access to scholarship, (2) increase their mastery of copyright, (3) learn how to access to their online works, and (4) learn how to take advantage of the Libraries' Subvention Fund.
Open Access Altmetrics
Panel Presentation (2014-02-18)

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