SHORT VIDEOS (about 62 minutes) In this 3-minute interview with OSI2016 delegate and UNESCO open access manager Bhanu Neupane, Dr. Neupane describes how an overarching policy on open access is essentially lacking in Latin America and how working together toward open access shouldn’t be a competition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdlwIkeozik (CLACSO: Nov 2015) Why open access? This 2-minute...Read More

Guide to OSI Workgroups Early next week you will receive an email connecting you to your workgroup colleagues. Once your group is connected, please feel free to get started discussing your topic—even to reach out to the full delegate group for ideas, information or feedback. This pre-conference communication is not required, but high performing groups...Read More

SHORT VIDEOS (about 65 minutes total) Historian Aileen Fyfe from the University of St. Andrews speaks about the past and future of scholarly publishing in her September 2015 keynote address at OASPA. Time index 27:25-45:30 focuses on peer review; the first 27 minutes are a wonderful history of scholarly publishing if you have time, and...Read More

Reminders Please reserve your hotel room soon! Space is filling up! Around half of you have booked so far. The official cutoff date is March 29th (an update from the previously announced December 15th deadline). If you won’t need a room, please email us your commuting plans so we can make sure to reserve the...Read More

Here are a few year-end reminders for you to consider over these next few weeks: Review your workshop assignments and let us know by December 31 if you’d like to switch (see update issue 7). Reserve your hotel room by mid-January. Please pay your conference fee ASAP (unless this has been waived). These fees are...Read More

Workgroup assignments Based on your responses, the OSI organizing committee has put together a first draft ofOSI2016 workgroup assignments. These are some amazing-looking groups! Thank you for your help with this process so far. Still, we had to guess in a few places so please find your name in the tables below and let us...Read More

SHORT VIDEOS (44 minutes total) What is open access? There are a wealth of materials that can provide a good overview of the OA landscape, from Peter Suber’s seminal 2012 book to the many instructional guides published by university libraries. Every description seemingly has its own focus, though—every advocate and critic can slice and dice...Read More

If you haven’t already done so, please remember to (in this order): Choose your workshop questions by tomorrow. Late choices will be accepted but priority will be given to those received by the deadline. By the way, it’s okay not to choose. As many delegates have noted, all the topics are interesting. If you don’t...Read More

Communications As you’ve heard by now (hopefully), the communications tool we’ve been using to-date hasn’t worked for everyone—sorry about that. Our new (and hopefully improved) plan is as follows: Google Groups will be used to distribute and archive conference updates and information. Our group’s email address is osi2[email protected]. Please add this address to your safe...Read More

The inaugural conference of the Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI2016) will be held in Fairfax, Virginia, from April 19-22, 2016. The conference will open with a reception at the Hyatt Fairfax at Fair Lakes on the evening of Tuesday the 19th. Working groups will meet on the campus of George Mason University on Wednesday and Thursday,...Read More