Wednesday, November 18, 2009

In the works as of November 2009

Here are a few of the things I'm up to at present and in the near future:

Major conferences (open access and scholarly communication):

OCULA Spotlight Speaker: February 25, 2010, Toronto Ontario at the Ontario Library Association Superconference

Keynote, LIBER conference, June 29, 2010, Aarhus, Denmark

Program Committee, ELPUB 2010, June 16-18, 2010, Helsinki, Finland

Webinar Series

Co-coordinating ACRL ARL Scholarly Communication Institute Webinar series, tentatively scheduled January - May 2010 (details to come soon)

Teaching

Wrapping up another LIBR 559L, Scholarly Communication. Another great class, I'll miss them!

Research

Open Access Journals Support research project - pan-Canadian survey of academic libraries and university presses, with team members Don Taylor & Brian Owen (SFU), Kumiko Vezina (Concordia), and Andrew Waller (University of Calgary)

Editing

Co-editing special issue of the Canadian Library Association's Feliciter, on Information Policy, with Kirsti Nilsen, for publication next April

Writing & co-writing

articles on open access policy & OA research project for special issue of Canadian Journal of Higher Education

Learning

PhD coursework, SFU School of Communication

Plus the usual - see right hand side of blog.