Throughout 21-25 October Birkbeck PhD students are invited to attend events organised by the Birkbeck Library as part of International Open Access Week.
These events will let you learn about developments which are of increasing importance to your current and future research. The programme includes the following events – registration is via the following links.
Changes and challenges in transformative open access agreements
Monday 21st October, 11.00-11.30, Library Training Room
This session will give an overview of the changes and challenges in publishing models, for libraries with the move from traditional subscriptions, to a hybrid of subscriptions and open access, to transformative agreements which seek to offset article processing charges (APCs).
Data Management Plans for students
Tuesday 22nd October, 11.00-12.30, Library Seminar Room
This is an interactive 1.5hour long session. There will be discussion and opportunities for questions.
This session is aimed at Postgraduate Research Students including Doctoral and Masters Research Students, who are creating or reusing data, or who may require ethical approval, and would like to create a Data Management Plan (DMP) to help guide them through their project.
These plans are also important documents for funded research, with many funders requiring them as part of a bid. Being familiar with the process of creating DMPs is therefore a useful research skill.
We will use example plans and online tools to create DMPs, and look at how to improve them.
Research Data Management and Open Access – drop in session
Wednesday 23rd October, 13.00-16.00, MAL 420
If you have questions about open access publishing, where you should put your research data, what Plan S is and what it means at Birkbeck, then pop in to this session to find the answers. David McElroy is our Research Data Support Manager and Paul Rigg our Senior Assistant Librarian (Repository & Digital Media Management) and they will be on hand to talk through any queries that you have. This is an open session, no booking required.
If you have questions about open access publishing, where you should put your research data, what Plan S is and what it means at Birkbeck, then pop in to this session to find the answers. David McElroy is our Research Data Support Manager and Paul Rigg our Senior Assistant Librarian (Repository & Digital Media Management) and they will be on hand to talk through any queries that you have. This is an open session, no booking required.
Plan S – what is it and what does it mean for Birkbeck?
Wednesday 23rd October, 16.00-17.00, Library Seminar Room
Plan S aims to significantly shake up the current Open Access publishing ecosystem. This session will give a brief overview of who’s behind it, what the “plan” is, what the “S” actually means, and how it could affect us.
Making the most of Scopus
Thursday 24th October, 11.00-11.30, Library Training Room
Come and get an overview of some of the analysis tools (journals, search results, authors) in the database Scopus.
Open Access board game
Friday 25th October, 12.30-13.30, Library Training Room
Come and play the Open Access board game to get a better understanding of what Open Access is and how it works. You are welcome as a team of up to 4 people or as an individual to join others.
