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Institutional Repositories: gone by lunchtime?

Join us for a two-day symposium exploring the evolving roles of institutional repositories and open access in today’s academic and scientific communities. Day one will focus on the challenges and future of institutional repositories, while day two will delve into the mainstream adoption of open access. Engage with peers in a supportive environment that emphasizes community, conviviality, and camaraderie.

 

This event will be held online, through Zoom.  For more information about the event, contact anton.angelo@canterbury.ac.nz

Links for the online event will be sent to you when you register.

Programme

Institutional Repository Community Day (Day One)

Time (NZT) Event
9:00-9:10 Welcome, karakia and introduction to the day.
9:10am

Local Contexts: Supporting Iwi Rights and Interests in Data and Repositories - Dr Janette Hamilton-Pearce, Ashley Rojas

This presentation will focus on introducing the Local Contexts tools for managing, sharing, and supporting Iwi rights and interests in data and repositories.  Institutional repositories in Aotearoa are not neutral platforms. These platforms take on the colonial policies to archive and promote Māori as the 'Dying Race' driven by Issac Featherston since 1856. To counter that narrative, you will learn about the Local Contexts Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Biocultural (BC) Labels and Notices initiative, and how they can be implemented within these repositories.

There will be time for questions and discussion after the presentation.

11:00am Managing repository integrations (RT2): two institutions’ experiences  - Max Sullivan, Yanan Zhao.

 

This session covers two institutions’ experiences on Figshare and Elements integration via RT2 (as data repository for Lincoln and as institutional repository for Victoria) and their lessons learnt. It also aims to introduce AU/NZ Figshare network – a cross-institutional forum hosted via La Trobe’s Teams environment and highlight a couple of key ongoing issues. Future plans for development of each institution's crosswalk will also be discussed. There will be time for participants to ask questions and share their experiences. 

11:30am

Report from Open Repositories 2024 Kim Shepherd

Kim's report from OR 2024

1:00pm

Institutional repositories, gone by lunchtime?

A group discussion about the future of Green Open Access and institutional repositories.  This will be a free space for those involved in Open Access and repository management to share how they are working with increased demands to research impact for less money and labour.  If you have a topic you'd like to be discussed, get in touch with anton.angelo@canterbury.ac.nz 

2:00pm 

Advancing the UoO Research Landscape Or: A New Institutional Repository for Otago - Lisa Chisholm and Mandy Phipps-Green

On 1 May this year, Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka | University of Otago's new institutional repository system, Esploro from Ex Libris, went live. A replacement project years in the making was executed within 12 months of the new system being selected. Our talk will share the Library's experience of migrating OUR Archive from DSpace to Esploro, including the rationale for change, the implementation process and its challenges, and the results - a new and greatly expanded OUR Archive.

  Closing 

Open Access Day (Day Two)

Time  Event
10:00 Welcome, karakia and introduction to the day

10:10am- 11:00

Russell J. Stanford, Open Access and the enshittification of scholarly publication  - Anton Angelo

Enshittification is a pattern in which online products and services decline in quality.  Scholarly publishing is failing in its task of enabling the results of research to be made available widely and usefully.  Open Access, a strategy to help with this has been co-opted for profiteering and University of Canterbury author Russell J. Stanford is a prime example of the ongoing failure of the scholarly publishing system. 

There will be time for questions and discussion after the presentation.

12:30pm

Open Alex, can it eat Scival for breakfast? - Kyle Demes COO Ourresearch

OpenAlex is a free and open catalog of the global research system. It's named after the ancient Library of Alexandria and made by the nonprofit OurResearch.  It is quickly becoming a viable competitor for expensive bibliometric systems.  Can it eat Scival's lunch?

There will be time for questions and discussion after the presentation.

2:00pm

OA Initiatives in Aotearoa

  • Kiera Tauro (Canterbury) - A report back on UC Library’s 2024 Open Access project, including how we got started, what we did and a few initial results.

  • Berit Anderson (Auckland):  In 2023, Berit co-led the Universities New Zealand OA Toolkit project, bringing librarians from across NZ together to collaboratively design and publish the Open Access Toolkit for Aotearoa New Zealand Researchers. She will share a bit about the collaborative creation process, the toolkit itself, and some of the future

  Closing