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Boston College and Boston University Libraries are pleased to announce OpenCon 2018 Boston. This year's event will feature a screening of Paywall: The Business of Scholarship. We are excited to welcome the film's producer and director Jason Schmitt for a panel discussion.

Preliminary schedule:

8:30 - 9:00 AM

Check-in / Breakfast

9:00 - 9:15 AM

Welcoming Remarks / Update on OA at BU

9:30 - 10:00 AM

Presentation: Lauren Slingluff and Janine Kuntz, Wheaton College

Pathways to a Z-Degree: Capitalizing on the Course Adoption

10:00 - 10:15 AM

Break

10:15 - 11:00 AM

Lightning Talks

 

Margaret Manion, Making Open Textbooks More Discoverable

 

Anna Newman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Gender Differences in Approaches to Open Access

 

Phoebe Ayers, MIT Libraries

Wikipedia activities at MIT and beyond

 

Michael A Toler, Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT

Increasing visibility of Open Access Resources

 

Julia A. Lovett, University of Rhode Island Libraries

The 1foldr Data Report for Populating IRs: A Lightning-Fast Review

 

Jim McGrath, Brown University

Wikipedia, Public Humanities, and Hyperlocal History

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Breakout Session: Anne Britton, Local History and Open Access

12:00 PM- 1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00 - 1:45 PM

Breakout Session: Kelly Fitzpatrick & Jack Cushman, Harvard University

Caselaw Access Project API

1:45 - 2:15 PM

Presentation: Amod Lele, Boston University

BULB: A WordPress Plugin for Open Educational Resources

2:15 - 2:30 PM

Break

2:30 - 3:30 PM

Paywall: The Business of Scholarship

3:30 - 4:30 PM

Q&A with Director/Producer Jason Schmitt

When

November 09, 2018 at 9:00am - 5pm
Eastern Time (US & Canada) local time

Where

GSU Conference Auditorium
George Sherman Union at Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
United States
Google map and directions

Hosts

Sarah Melton Sarah Melton
Head of Digital Scholarship, Boston College
Ellen Phillips Ellen Phillips

Contact

Sarah Melton ·

When

November 09, 2018 at 9:00am - 5pm
Eastern Time (US & Canada) local time

Where

GSU Conference Auditorium
George Sherman Union at Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
United States
Google map and directions

Hosts

Sarah Melton Sarah Melton
Head of Digital Scholarship, Boston College
Ellen Phillips Ellen Phillips

Contact

Sarah Melton ·
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