Open Science: Following the Roadmap for Research – Focus on Sustainability – Nov. 30, 2021

Session Description

This is the final session in the University of Toronto Libraries (UTL) hosted virtual series, Open Science: Following the Roadmap for Research, for the month of November. Each session is guided by one of the 5 principles of open scholarship as outlined in the "Roadmap for Open Science", published by the Government of Canada (Feb. 2020). This session will Focus on Sustainability. 

Open Science initiatives promote equitable, transparent, and diverse outcomes that rely on the sustainability of Open Science research. This session will be a forum for critical discussion regarding challenges and opportunities for the sustainability of Open Science, such as creating supporting policy and infrastructure, reforming traditional publishing structures, and long-term preservation and curation.

Moderator: Leslie Weir, Librarian and Archivist of Canada

Speakers:

• Christoph Becker, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information, and Director, Digital Curation Institute, University of Toronto
  
• Juan Pablo Alperin, Assistant Professor, Publishing Program, and Associate Director Research, Public Knowledge Project, Simon Fraser University; Co-Director, ScholCommLab
  
• Mariya Maistrovskaya, Digital Publishing Librarian, University of Toronto

Audience: Open to all University of Toronto faculty, students and staff from all disciplines across the tri-campus.