Talk on Open Access and Libraries by Dr. Leslie Chan, at NCSI 10th May 5.00 PM

6 May 2004

      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

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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.

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