You are invited to Open UBC – a two-day showcase of diverse events highlighting areas of open scholarship that features UBC’s researchers, faculty, students and staff, as well as guests from the global community.
Themes this year include: open education, open research, open access in the arts, open science, open data and altmetrics (alternative metrics). These events include discussion forums, lectures, seminars, workshops and symposia on topical and timely issues from every discipline. All events are FREE and open to the public, students, faculty, staff and schools.
This year’s Open UBC events will be held October 31 to November 1, 2012, in conjunction with UBC’s Celebrate Learning Week.
For registration and a schedule of events, see: scholcomm.ubc.ca/openubc
All sessions will be held in the Lillooet Room (301) at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC unless otherwise stated.
Highlights include:
Dieter Stein, Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (Germany) on the topic of open access impact on scientific discourse;
Heather Piwowar, a UBC-based Postdoctoral research associate with DataONE and the Dryad digital repository at NESCent, on open data and alternative metrics for calculating research impact factors;
Jon Beasley Murray, Professor, UBC, Faculty of Arts on teaching and learning in the open;
UBC’s Dr. Daniel Pauly and his team for their acclaimed Sea Around Us project;
other UBC faculty on open science; and more.
For more information about the events contact: ubc-oaweek@interchange.ubc.ca.