March 2007
March 1 – 2, 2007
The University of Oklahoma Libraries presents
Bridging the Gap: Connecting Users to Digital Content
Embassy Suites Hotel, Oklahoma City, OK
Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC
“A Question of Access – Evolving Policies and Practices”
Friday, March 2, 10:30 – 11:15am
For more information: http://libraries.ou.edu/conference
March 6, 2007
UNL Libraries' Annual Workshop in Scholarly Communications
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC
"Open-Access in the Sciences and Alternative Models of Scholarly Publishing"
Tuesday, March 6, 2:00 - 3:30 pm
For more information: http://www.unl.edu/libr/news/index.shtml#news018
April 2007
April 3, 2007
Catholic University School of Library and Information Science Colloquium
Catholic University, Washington, D.C. - Information Commons
Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC
"Enabling Access, Enabling Scholarship"
Tuesday, April 3, 12:00 - :00 pm
April 5, 2007
Chemists without Borders' Open Access, Open Source Speaker Series: Heather Joseph, Peter Suber, Jean-Claude Bradley
Teleconference
Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC
Federal Research Public Access Act
Thursday, April 5 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time / Noon Eastern Time
For more information: http://chemistswithoutborders.blogspot.com/2007/03/open-access-open-source-speaker-series.html
April 25, 2007
Publishing choices: Know your rights and expand your impact!
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Heather Joseph, Director of SPARC
Room 527, Health Sciences Library UNC-Chapel Hill
For more information:
http://www.hastac.org/informationyear/conference
May 2007
May 8 – 10, 2007
Workshop on Strategies for Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Latin America: Focus on Health and Environmental Information for Sustainable Development
May 17 – 18, 2007
Promoting 21st Century Scholarly Communication: The Open Access and Institutional Repositories Movements
The University of Hong Kong
Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC
“A Question of Access – Evolving Policies and Practices”
For more information: http://lib.hku.hk/scholarly_communication/conf/
May 18 – 23, 2007
MLA ’07: Information Revolution – Change is in the Air
Philadelphia, PA
Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC
“Scholarly Publishing Issues: The Challenges and Opportunities Facing Libraries in an Open Access Environment”
Wednesday, May 23, 1:30 – 5:30pm
For more information: http://www.mlanet.org
May 21-23, 2007
University of Maryland University College
Copyright Utopia: Alternative Visions, Methods, and Policies (7th Annual Symposium on Intellectual Property)
UMUC Marriott Inn and Conference Center
Adelphi, MD
Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC
Panel: “Closed is not Necessarily the Other Side of Open: Open Access Initiatives”
Tuesday, May 22, 1:45 – 3:30pm
For more information: http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/symposium/index.shtml
May 28 – June 1, 2007
Canadian Health Libraries Association - 2007 Conference
Ottawa, Ontario
Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC
“Open Access in the Biomedical Sciences”
Wednesday, May 30, 11:00 – 11:45am
For more information: http://www.chla-absc.ca/2007/program_e.htm
June 2007
June 5, 2007
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS)
Washington DC
Heather Joseph, SPARC Executive Director
This is a closed meeting.
June 7, 2007
2007 Society of Scholarly Publishing Meeting
San Francisco, CA
Raym Crow, SPARC Senior Consultant
Session: "Innovative Partnerships for Small Publishers"
June 13 – 15, 2007
ELPUB2007 – Openness in Digital Publishing
Vienna, Austria
Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC
“A Question of Access: Evolving Policies and Practices”
For more information: http://info.tuwien.ac.at/elpub2007/home.html
June 18 – 19, 2007
Leadership Conference: PubMed Plus: New Directions in Publishing and Data Mining
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Sponsored by the Society for Neuroscience
Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC
Working Group on Standard for Journal Supplementary Material
June 25, 2007
ALA Annual Meeting , Washington, DC
Public Access to Government Sponsored Research
Sponsored by the Federal and Armed Forces Library Roundtable and Federal Library and Information Center Committee
Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC
“Public Access: A Public Good”
Monday, June 25, 1:30 – 3:30pm
For more information: http://www.ala.org/annual
July 2007
July 11, 2007
Transitioning to Open Access: Action and Advocacy
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
The Canadian Library Association’s Task Force on Open Access warmly invites you to join us, 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.
For more information: http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/schedule.php
July 11 – 13, 2007
First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
Raym Crow, SPARC Senior Consultant
“On Publishing Cooperatives…”
Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC
“A Question of Access: Evolving Policies and Practices”
For more information: http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/
August 2007
August 30, 2007
Taking Action on the NIH Public Access Policy:
SPARC/ATA Webcast with Patients Advocacy Groups
2:00-300pm EST
Washington, DC
September 2007
September 17, 2007
"Long Term Access to Federally Funded Research"
Greater Western Library Alliance Symposium
Tucson, AZ
October 2007
October 4, 2007
Taking Action on the NIH Public Access Policy:
SPARC/ATA Webcast with Library, Faculty, and Students
2:00-300pm EST
Washington, DC
October 17, 2007
Public Access: The Latest from Washington
Presentation at the Public Library of Science
San Francisco, CA
November 2007
November 1, 2007
NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program
Reception
Washington, D.C.
November 8, 2007
Public Access: Latest News from the U.S. and Canada
Presentation at eIFL General Assembly
Belgrade, Serbia
November 20th
Scholarly Publishing and Open Access: Straight Talk
11:00am-1:00pm
Medical Library Association Educational Webcast
Riverpoint Academic Center, Room 311
Chicago, IL
For more information click here.
