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2023 UNT OA Symposium: Federal Initiatives Supporting Open Science and Equitable Access
Video recording of the session, "Federal Initiatives Supporting Open Science and Equitable Access," for the UNT Open Access Symposium held virtually on April 14, 2023. This session focuses on recent federal initiatives supporting Open Science and public access to federally-funded research, including those outlined in the 2022 Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memo, Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research.
2023 UNT OA Symposium: OER and Open Textbook Projects at UNT
Video recording of the session, "OER and Open Textbook Projects at UNT," for the UNT Open Access Symposium held virtually on April 14, 2023. This session is a panel of UNT faculty that discuss their university-sponsored OER and open textbook projects. They consider how these projects were conceived, created, and implemented in the classroom and what the outcomes, benefits, and drawbacks might be.
2023 UNT OA Symposium: Open Pedagogy and OER Workshop
Video recording of the session, "Open Pedagogy and OER Workshop," for the UNT Open Access Symposium held virtually on April 14, 2023. This workshop offers some practical tools and advice for developing OER and open pedagogy practices.
2023 UNT OA Symposium: Opening Remarks
Video recording of the opening remarks for the UNT Open Access Symposium held virtually on April 14, 2023.
2023 UNT OA Symposium: Recent Texas Legislation Affecting Course Materials and OER
Video recording of the session, "Recent Texas Legislation Affecting Course Materials and OER," for the UNT Open Access Symposium held virtually on April 14, 2023. This session looks at two recent pieces of legislation-- Texas SB 810 (OER course markings) and HB 1027 (disclosure of course material information)--and their implications for Texas institutions of higher education.
Access to Justice: Emerging Tech Solutions
Presentation for the 2019 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation highlights emerging technologies that are currently addressing barriers to justice, ranging from open casebooks to artificial intelligence functionality for open legal data repositories, and how these types of emerging tech can level the playing field for all stakeholders in the justice system. .
Advancing Open Access Through Digital Services
Presentation for the 2010 Open Access Symposium discussing digital services using Georgia Tech University as a case study.
After the Mandates & Manifestos, What Next? The Denton Declaration at 5
Presentation for the 2017 UNT Open Access Symposium. This presentation provides background on the Denton Declaration, an open data manifesto created in 2012, before introducing panelists for a discussion on the future of open data and open access.
After the Mandates & Manifestos, What Next? The Denton Declaration at 5
Video of the panel session "After the Mandates & Manifestos, What Next? The Denton Declaration at 5" at the 2017 Open Access Symposium. This video discusses the origin of the Denton Declaration and current initiatives regarding open data.
Collecting and Archiving the Federal Web
Presentation for the 2015 Open Access Symposium discussing collecting and archiving the Federal web.
Compliance with funders' open access mandates: an international comparison
Presentation for the 2018 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation examines several open access mandates to compare funded papers' compliance with open access mandates with non-funded papers.
Copyright and Publication Agreements: Who Owns Your Work?
Presentation for the 2010 Open Access Symposium discussing ownership as interpreted by copyright and publication agreements.
Creating and Maintaining an Open-Access Medical Image Teaching File
Presentation for the 2018 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation discusses the creation of MedPix®, an open-access online teaching file of medical images.
Design Thinking Redux: Leveraging Creativity for Innovative Solutions
Presentation for the 2019 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This hands-on workshop focuses on using design thinking methodology to prototype solutions to the access to justice gap. The workshop cultivate participants’ creative problem-solving skillset (including prototype innovative solutions to an A2J issue discussed earlier in the Symposium) and empower them to lead their own initiative at their home institutions.
Designing the Optimal Open Access Mandate
Presentation for the 2010 Open Access Symposium addressing multiple issues involved in developing a university open access policy.
Disruptive Transformations and Open Access
Presentation for the 2010 Open Access Symposium discussing disruptions in how information is valued due to changing mediums and distribution models.
Evaluation of Online-Only Journal Quality from Analysis of Email Solicitations
This presentation contains an analysis of ~600 solicitation emails related to 317 scholarly journals received within a one-year period to assess the quality of publishing venues available.
Exploring the Evolving Landscape of Open Access
Presentation for a workshop at the 2013 Open Access Symposium. This presentation discusses the impact of open access for students, the impact of open access on universities, and the impact of open access on publishing practices.
Fair Open Access: A Roadmap
This presentation provides a model for flipping subscription journals to Open Access using Linguistics in Open Access (LingOA) as an example.
First Steps to Promoting Open Access for Research Data and Publications on Campus
Video of the session "First Steps to Promoting Open Access for Research Data and Publications on Campus," with a audience-wide discussion of best practices and innovative steps to generate support for open access.
From Subscription to Open Access: A Roadmap
Video of the keynote presentation "From Subscription to Open Access: A Roadmap," which provides a model for flipping subscription journals to Open Access using Linguistics in Open Access (LingOA) as an example.
Getting to Digital Publishing at WVU [Keynote]
Video recording of the keynote session for the 2016 Library Publishing Forum. This presentation discusses digital publishing at West Virginia University and the development of Vega, an open-source academic publishing platform.
GIS Trends and Open Access
Presentation for the 2016 Open Access Symposium discussing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software and data in relation to open access initiatives.
Improving Openness and Reproducibility in Scholarly Research and Communication
Video of the featured speaker session discussing the Open Science Framework, a free, open scholarly commons to address problems with reproduction and verification of research.
Improving Openness of Scholarly Communication
This presentation contains an overview of the Open Science Framework as a free, open scholarly commons.
Innovation and Sustainability in Digital Publishing
This presentation accompanies introductory remarks given as a panelist in the session "Publishing and Preserving OA Content" during the 2014 Open Access Symposium, "The Business and Economics of Open Access."
Is Open Access the New Normal?
Presentation for the 2010 Open Access Symposium discussing the prevalence of open access resources and policies.
[Keynote] Some Thoughts on the Fragility of the Public Record in the Age of Big Digital
Presentation for the 2017 Open Access Symposium. This presentation explores the need complex issues involved with preserving public records, specifically through the need to triage preservation efforts; understand the government information lifecycle; differentiate access and usage; and engagement with stakeholders.
[Keynote Video] Some Thoughts on the Fragility of the Public Record in the Age of Big Digital
Video of the morning keynote presentation for the 2017 Open Access Symposium. This video contains a discussion of the complex issues involved with preserving public records.
Live-Streaming OA at UC Press: Lessons Learned, and How the Landscape Has Already Changed
Video of the joint keynote for the 2016 Library Publishing Forum and UNT Open Access Symposium. This presentation discusses where scholarly publishing is headed, what is happening in open-access publishing, and how the two can support alternatives to commercial publishing.
Live-Streaming OA at University of California Press: Lessons Learned, and How the Landscape Has Already Changed
This presentation discusses where scholarly publishing is headed, what is happening in open-access and library publishing, and how they can support alternatives to commercial publishing.
Making an Open Information Age: Power, Freedom and Inequality in an Age of Bits
Video of the session "Making an Open Information Age: Power, Freedom and Inequality in an Age of Bits," which explores why we can and must create a world of open information and its implications for technology, politics, laws, and economics.
Message from United States Senator John Cornyn for the 2015 Open Access Symposium
Video message delivered by United States Senator John Cornyn for the 2015 UNT Open Access Symposium, hosted by the UNT Dallas College of Law.
Mind the Gaps: Promoting Open and Equal Access to Justice for All
Presentation for the 2019 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation argues that open access to legal information drives access to justice. Based on the first hand experience of one of the busiest public law libraries in the country, leveraging technology and library budgets to move legal forms and information from behind paywalls can open the courthouse doors for those who cannot afford legal representation. Speakers provide practical examples from their experiences at a metropolitan public law library to showcase the opportunities for bridging justice gaps with open access.
National Plan for Access to U.S. Government Information: A user-centric service approach to permanent public access
Presentation for the 2015 Open Access Symposium discussing a national plan for access to U.S. government information and a user-centric service approach to permanent public access.
The Need for Open Access Publications in Commercial Clinical Genetic Workflows
Presentation for the 2018 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation discusses the adoption (or lack thereof) of Open Access and Open Data trends at for profit healthcare organizations from a scientist’s point of view
OA Monographs: The Cost of Creating Them Today To Make Them Open For Tomorrow
This presentation contains findings from a 2015 Mellon-funded study to understand the costs of publishing monographs, and their next steps in building a tool to estimate publishing costs.
The Open Access Advantage for American Law Reviews
Presentation for the 2015 Open Access Symposium discussing the open access advantage for American law reviews.
Open Access: An STM Journal Publisher's Perspective
Presentation for the 2010 Open Access Symposium discussing a commercial publisher's operations and perspective on open access
Open Access and Open Data in For-Profit Healthcare
Presentation for the 2018 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation discusses copyright in relation to Open Access and Open Data in for-profit healthcare.
Open Access at the UNT Libraries
This presentation discusses the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Library collection. It showcases the collections included in the UNT Digital Library, the statistics of use, and highlights the UNT Scholarly Works institutional repository.
Open Access, Copyright and the Public Domain
Presentation for the 2015 Open Access Symposium discussing open access, copyright, and the public domain.
Open Access Publishing: Benefits, Challenges and Experiences
Presentation for the 2010 Open Access Symposium provides an overview of open access publishing as a whole and BioMed Central as an open access publisher.
Open Access to Primary Legal Materials and their Impact on Access to Justice in Texas
Presentation for the 2019 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation explores whether Open Access is an Answer for Access to Justice in general. In particular, it highlights the implication of open access to Primary Legal Materials on Access to Justice in the state of Texas.
Open Educational Resources in Action: 2022 UNT Open Access Symposium
Video recording of the 2022 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium held on March 8, 2022.
Open Educational Resources: Reducing Costs, Expanding Access, and Improving Efficacy
Video of the presentation "Open Educational Resources: Reducing Costs, Expanding Access, and Improving Efficacy," with an overview of the open educational resources movement, how it is playing out on campus, and research showing the impact on students.
Open Law and Open Access
Presentation for the 2015 Open Access Symposium discussing open access to open law and the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act.
Open Minds But Closed Access. Why Are There So Few Gold Open Access LIS Journals? And Why Are So Many Librarians Unwilling To Unlock Their Scholarship?
This presentation contains an evaluation of the open access availability of library and information science literature.
Open Source Tech for Scholarly Communication
Joint keynote presentation for the 2018 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries and University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation discusses the need for open source solutions within the scholarly communication ecosystem.
Pathways to Open Access: Exploration leading to action
Presentation for the 2018 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation discusses the "Pathways to OA" toolkit which maps out the various approaches, strategies, and next steps for University of California libraries to approach open access.
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