Open Access past events

2020

Proposal to publication: What authors should know about scholarly book publishing

The peer-reviewed monograph is one of the primary ways by which in scholars in many disciplines share and disseminate their research. In this workshop, Concordia University Press's acquisition editor and managing & production editor will give a brief overview of scholarly book publishing in the humanities and qualitative social sciences.

Using and sharing open access content: Creative Commons licences

Learn how to get, collaborate on, and share open access research or creative content with Creative Commons (CC) licences. Whether you need images for a presentation, are seeking information to inform your own research, or want to mix sounds into new music, Creative Commons licences enable you to access and share with a greatly expanding, global body of work. In this workshop you will find out what the Creative Commons is and how to use CC licences. We will practice working with CC content and look at the ramifications of applying different licences to our own work. We will also explore some useful tools for finding CC-licensed work.

Open Educational Resources: Making course materials affordable and accessible

Open educational resources (OER) have gained considerable momentum in Canada and around the world, significantly lowering the cost of course materials and enabling access for all. As part of Open Access Week, this session will give an overview of OER, go over the major OER repositories, and introduce the OER program at Concordia.

Accessing Open Data

This presentation will give an overview of the main open data sources at the federal, provincial and municipal level. For instance, we will talk about Statistics Canada, l’Institut de la statistique du Québec and the geospatial data from the Ministère de l’Énergie et Ressources naturelles (MERN). We will also cover the Montreal Open Data Portal. The focus will be identifying the best tools We will conclude by introducing the question of Research Data Management and where to find data produced by faculty and graduate students.