National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) Indian Institute of Science Bangalore Cordially invites you to a talk on OPEN ACCESS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR LIBRARIES By Dr. Leslie Chan Program Supervisor, International Studies program and Supervisor, Joint Program in New Media Studies at the University of Toronto at Scarborough And Associate Director of Bioline International (a non-profit international electronic publishing collaboration) At 5.00 P.M. on 10th May 2004 (Monday) Venue: Seminar Hall, NCSI Coffee/Tea will be served at 4.30 PM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ About the Speaker and the talk: Leslie Chan is Program Supervisor for the International Studies program and also supervisor of studies for the Joint Program in New Media Studies at the University of Toronto at Scarborough and Associate Director of Bioline International, a non-profit international electronic publishing collaboration with the main objective of improving the visibility and impact of health and other scientific information from developing countries. From 1997-2002, Leslie also served as the managing editor of an experimental digital publishing unit within the Centre for Instructional Technology Development. Recently, Leslie was appointed by the American Anthropological Association to the Steering Committee of AnthroSource, an innovative scholar 's portal that promises to transform teaching and research in the field of anthropology and beyond. The above positions reflect Leslie's long-term interest in the use of information technology in support of teaching, learning and research, as well as his commitment to engage in new modes of scholarly publishing, human capacity building and international co-operation. As part of the Advisory Member of the Civil Society Science working group at the World Summit on the Information Society, he is preparing to take part in the second phase of the WSIS to ensure that open access to science continues to be on the main agenda of the second phase of the WSIS in Tunis in 2005. He is also organizing a special session on "Linking local and global knowledge with ICT" at the upcoming Elpub 2004 meeting in Brazil in June. As one of the original participants and signatories of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, Leslie has been active in advocating open access publishing and the development of online publishing projects that encourage scholars to explore new means of communicating their research. Leslie has been invited to participate in numerous international conferences on scholarly communication issues and conferences on ICT and development and he has conducted workshops on these topics for a wide variety of institutions, many of them in developing parts of the world. In this talk, Leslie will relate his various experiences in promoting alternative publishing initiatives at the University of Toronto as well as his involvement with the promotion of open access and institutional repositories. He will share some of the successes and failures of his projects and point to ways in which librarians and faculty could work together more productively to enhance the sharing, creation and dissemination of knowledge. ------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. T.B. Rajashekar Associate Chairman Tel: +91-80-23600271, 23601427 National Centre for Science Fax: +91-80-23601426, 23600683 Information (NCSI) E-Mail: raja@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Indian Institute of Science URL: http://144.16.72.189/raja/ BANGALORE-560012 (India) ------------------------------------------------------------- SciGate: http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/ The IISc Science Information Portal