SIMSA is selling hoodies, and accepting orders until February 5! If you like feeling cozy, announcing your institutional affiliation AND supporting our student association, please consider buying one of these custom branded hoodies (pictured in attached order form). The hoodies are available in unisex sizing. Instructions for ordering are included in the attachment, but if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact Nicole Slipp, SIMSA Special Projects Chair (nicole.slipp@dal.ca)
IM Public Lecture: “The Future of Open Access to Research and Scholarship: Lessons from the Medieval to the Early Modern Era”
Lecture Details
Monday, October 23rd, 2017
4:00pm
Great Hall, University Club, 6259 Alumni Crescent
The Information Management Public Lectures give attention to exciting advances in research and professional practice. The topics are diverse reflecting the importance and global extent of Information Management in today’s society. The lectures are open to all members of the Dalhousie campus and surrounding community. Click here for the full schedule. We encourage you to attend in person, but if that is not possible you can access a recording on the SIM website following the lecture. Live streaming is not currently available.
Dr. John Willinsky
Stanford University
Abstract: This talk will set the current state of open access in scholarly publishing within a larger history of access to learning that reaches back to the medieval period in the West. It will consider the role of the intellectual properties of learning played in the rise of both the university and modern copyright law. This history suggests a number of principles that might be kept in mind when considering today’s various initiatives for pursuing universal open access to research and scholarship, now that such access is being increasingly accepted as the longterm goal for scholarly publishing.
Biography: John Willinsky holds a PhD from Dalhousie University and is Khosla Family Professor of Education at Stanford University, as well as Professor (Part-Time) of Publishing Studies at Simon Fraser University. He directs the Public Knowledge Project, which develops open source scholarly publishing software and his forthcoming book is entitled The Intellectual Properties of Learning: A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke (University of Chicago Press).
SIM Ethics and Values 2017
Here is a presentation from SIM Director Dr. Sandra Toze on values and ethics!
SIM Orientation 2017
The past week we have been welcoming our new SIM students to their degrees, and have put on two different presentations: Technological tips and tricks, and our associations display.
If you missed either of these events, or need a reminder of what happened in them, we’ve uploaded them online!
Annual general meeting next week
Our September annual general meeting will be held September 19th at 4 PM in Rowe 1016, due to the large number of students this year!
There will be pizza and drinks for all attending SIM students.
We will also introduce the nomination and voting process for this year’s SIMSA executives.
Annual general meeting tomorrow!
Tomorrow our annual general meeting will be held tomorrow at noon. We will be uploading the minutes shortly afterwards!