Transitioning to Open Access: Action and Advocacy

Wednesday, July 11, 2007, 9:00 - noon
Earl and Jennie Lohn Floor Policy Room
Simon Fraser University - Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC

The Canadian Library Association's Task Force on Open Access (OA) warmly invites you to join the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) for a presentation and discussion on transitioning to open access. This is a pre-conference to the PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2007 (http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/index.php).

Presentations from three speakers, Heather Joseph (SPARC), Heather Morrison (CLA Task Force on Open Access), and Kathleen Shearer (CARL) will begin the half-day. These will be followed by discussion groups which will look at topics such as:

• What policy and advocacy initiatives could my library undertake to promote open access to scholarly literature?
• What policy and advocacy initiatives could the CLA and/or CARL undertake to promote open access to scholarly literature?
• Sharing successful initiatives (and failures) that have been undertaken at your institution to promote open access/changes to the scholarly communications system.

Registration is required. Registration is online, at http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/registration.php

If you have already registered for the PKP conference, please register again for the CLA preconference. The two registrations can be combined into one single payment if desired.

CLA members: $40
non-members: $50

The website for Transitioning to Open Access: Action and Advocacy is http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/cla-pre-conference.php.