Open Access Week 2021 workshops

The Concordia Library will be hosting workshops on open data, Creative Commons licences, open access publishing and Open Educational Resources for Open Access Week.

Using and sharing open access content: Creative Commons licences

Tuesday, October 26
9:30 to 11 a.m.

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.

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Open Educational Resources: Making course materials affordable and accessible

Tuesday, October 26
1 to 2 p.m.

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.

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Accessing Open Data

Wednesday, October 27
9 to 10:30 a.m.

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.

Cet atelier présentera l’éventail de données ouvertes, aussi bien données statistiques que géospatiales, qui s’offre aux chercheurs québécois et canadiens. L’accent sera mis sur les données produites par les différents gouvernements aux niveaux fédéral, provincial et municipal. On y verra notamment les produits de Statistique Canada, de l’Institut québécois de la statistique, les données géospatiales du Ministère de l’Énergie et Ressources naturelles (MERN), et le portail de données ouvertes de la Ville de Montréal. Nous traiterons aussi de la question des licences d’utilisation.

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

Wednesday, October 27
1 to 2 p.m.

The peer-reviewed monograph is one of the primary ways by which 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.

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