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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.
- 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.
- 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. .
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- PubMed and Public Access: Distinguishing the Different Resources and Discussing the Impact of Pubmed Central
- Presentation for the 2018 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation provides an overview of resources within PubMed and its role in scholarly communication services.
- PubMed Central: Behind the HTML
- Presentation for the 2018 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation provides a behind-the-scnees tour of the architecture, workflows, and policies of PubMed Central.
- What Does Open Data Mean to Data Science?
- Presentation for the 2018 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation discusses how open data facilitates data science and the challenges to open data in the scholarly communication ecosystem.
- What Tenure Guidelines Actually Say About Public Engagement and Metrics
- Presentation for the 2018 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation describes recent findings from an analysis of promotion and tenure guidelines regarding the inclusion of open access.
- 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.
- 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.
- [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.
- Preservation of Access to Government Information
- Presentation for the 2017 Open Access Symposium. This presentation provides an overview of the Data Refuge initiative by the Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities and Penn Libraries.
- Preservation of and Access to Government Information and Data: Accounts from the Field
- Video of the panel session "Preservation of and Access to Government Information and Data: Accounts from the Field" for the 2017 Open Access Symposium with presentations on the End of Term Archive, the US Government Publishing Office, the Data Refuge initiative, and the Preservation of Electronic Government Information group.
- Regional and Local Data
- Video of the panel session "Regional and Local Data" at the 2017 Open Access Symposium. This video discusses the use of geospatial data at regional and local levels.
- Toward an Ethic of Social Justice in the World of Online Information
- Video of the afternoon keynote session of the 2017 Open Access Symposium. This video includes a critical discussion of technology at the intersection of race, gender, and culture.
- What Kind of Information Is Available From the Federal Government
- Video of the panel session "What Kind of Information is Available From the Federal Government" for the 2017 Open Access Symposium. This panel includes discussion of access to the National Library of Medicine through the University of North Texas Health Science Center, and information available through the US Census Bureau, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the US Patent and Trademark Office.
- What kind of Information is Available from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
- Presentation for the 2017 Open Access Symposium. This presentation discusses the outreach efforts and datasets available through the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Perceptions of Open Access
- Video of the panel session "Perceptions of Open Access," discussing perceptions of open access through an analysis of journal solicitation emails, a study of library science open access journals, and a discussion of the future of open access.
- Reflections on the Symposium...and the Library Publishing Forum
- Video of the panel session "Reflections on the Symposium...and the Library Publishing Forum," discussing emerging themes from the discussions of the Library Publishing Forum and the UNT Open Access Symposium.
- SHARE in Open Science and Open Access
- This presentation contains an overview of SHARE, an open dataset repository to track research projects across the research lifecycle.
- SHARE in Open Science and Open Access
- Video of the presentation "SHARE in Open Science and Open Access," discussing the development of SHARE, an openly available dataset that enables the tracking of research objects across the research lifecycle.
- Sustaining OA with Publishing Cooperatives
- This presentation reports on the MacArthur-funded Open Access Publishing Cooperative Study, which is investigating the viability of publishing cooperatives through an examination of pilot projects in Africa, Canada, and the United States.
- Sustaining Open Access
- Video of the panel session "Sustaining Open Access" with presentations discussing open access publishing, specifically through the Open Access Publishing Cooperative Study, the Lethbridge Journal Incubator, and the Digital Monograph P+L tool to estimate full publishing costs.
- Why Science is Better with Communism? The Case of Sci-Hub
- This presentation will discuss why intellectual property rights, in the form of copyright law, are contradictory to science as an enterprise, and will draw on the example of Sci-Hub.
- Why Science is Better with Communism? The Case of Sci-Hub
- Video of the presentation "Why Science is Better with Communism? The Case of Sci-Hub" discussing why intellectual property rights, in the form of copyright law, are contradictory to science as an enterprise using the example of Sci-Hub.
- 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.