Presentations (Conferences, Workshops)

Conferences

Recent

Nothing in Scholarly Communications Makes Sense Except in the light of Open Access. 2nd International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference. July 8-10 Vancouver, B.C, Canada.
http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2009/pkp2009
http://blogs.ubc.ca/pkp2009/2009/07/16/nothing-in-scholarly-communication-makes-sense-except-in-the-light-of-open-access-leslie-chan/
http://vimeo.com/5670059

From local knowledge to a global knowledge commons. Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Age of the Commons. National Aerospace Laboratories (as a part of their Golden Jubilee celebrations), Indian Academy of Sciences and Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, March 26th, 2009.
http://www.cis-india.org/events/scholarly-communication-in-the-age-of-the-commons

Institutional Repository in the Age of Open Scholarship. symposium on Open Access to Science Publications - Policy Perspective, Opportunities and Challenges. Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), India. India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India, March, 2009.
http://www.csir.res.in/External/Heads/aboutcsir/announcements/OA.pdf

The Convergence of Open Access and Open Source. 7th annual free software and open source conference, Seneca@York, Toronto, Canada.
October 24th, 2008.
http://fsoss.senecac.on.ca/2008/?q=node/73

Access to Science and Research in Developing Countries. Third Access to Knowledge Global Conference (A2K3), hosted by Yale Law School. Geneva, Switzerland. September 10, 2008.
http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/7122.htm

Policy and Technology for e-Science, an ESOF Satellite Event. July 16-17, 2008. Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, Spain
http://sciencecommons.org/events/esof-satellite-event
http://sciencecommons.org/events/esof-satellite-event/program/

Open Access: what it means for research, teaching, and one's career. Scholarly Publishing Speaker Series, York University, Toronto, Canada. April 16, 2008.
http://www.yorku.ca/yuevents/index.asp?Event=13791

Innovating in the Creative and Knowledge Industries - Not an Open or Closed Case. With Gale
Moore. International Forum on the Creative Economy. Conference Board of Canada, Gatineau,
Quebec, March 17 –18, 2008.
http://www.conferenceboard.ca/conf/mar08/creative/default.asp
http://www.conferenceboard.ca/documents.asp?rnext=2701

Open for Business: The Emerging Collaboration Economy. 3rd Global Knowledge Conference,
December 11-13 2007, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
http://www.gkpeventsonthefuture.org/
http://www.gkpeventsonthefuture.org/GK3/dsp_page.cfm?pageid=671#em12

Centering the knowledge peripheries through open access: case studies and best practices. South African Research Universities Association Open Access Leadership Summit.  Gaborone, Botswana, Nov. 20-21,2007.
http://www.sarua.org:8180/web/guest/OAsummit2007
http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/docs/sarua-final-programme/downloadFile/file/SARUA_Final_Programme.pdf?nocache=1196242987.59

Collaborative approaches to Open Access: Experience from Bioline International. Strategies for Open and Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Latin America: Focus on Health and Environmental Information for Sustainable Development. Atibaia, Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 8-10 2007.
http://www.cria.org.br/eventos/codata2007/agenda
http://www.cria.org.br/eventos/codata2007/apresentacao/Presentations_09-05/Session7/panel7.4/lchan.ppt

Case studies of the integration of institutional repositories and open access journals. Promoting 21st Century Scholarly Commmunication, The University of Hong Kong, May 17, 2007.
http://lib.hku.hk/scholarly_communication/conf/programme.html
http://hub.hku.hk/handle/123456789/44098

Feasibility of Open Access for SSHRC funded Journals” Open Access: Not One Size Fits All. University of Winnipeg. Winnipeg, Canada. Feb. 6, 2007
http://library.uwinnipeg.ca/conferences/oa_symposium2007/SSHRC_OAjournals.ppt

What is Open Access and What does it mean for Information Professional. Life After WSIS: Lessons Learnt and Implications for the Information Professions. Annual meeiting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). San Antonio, Texas, USA. Nov. 3, 2006

The Future of Open Access Publishing. MEDNET Congress 2006, Improving Public Health through the Internet. Toronto, Canada. Oct. 15, 2006

Beyond Institutional and Disciplinary Boundaries: The Role of Open Access Repositories. Access 2006: Institutional Repositories, The Next Generation. Organized by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries. Ottawa, Canada. Oct. 10, 2006

Open Access Repositories: Implications for Humanities and Social Sciences”. 1st Ibero-American Conference on Electronic Publishing in the Context of Scholarly Communication. Brasilia, Brazil. April  25- 28, 2006

Institutional Repositories: Benefits and Challenges of Working Together. Beyond Boundaries and Binders, 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. Washington, D.C., USA. June 9, 2006

Digitizing Culture: Challenges, Opportunities and Lessons Learned. The Multicultural Canada Conference 2006. Vancouver, Canada. June 1, 2006
http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2564

Centering the Knowledge Periphery through Open Access: Experience from Bioline International. The International Dimensions of Digital Science and Scholarship. Annual meeting of the Association of Research Libraries and Canadian Association of Research Libraries. Ottawa, Canada. May 18, 2006
http://www.arl.org/arldocs/resources/pubs/mmproceedings/148/chan.ppt.htm

A South-North Partnership in Open Access Publishing, Bioline International”. Symposium on Access to Scientific and Technical Information. Annual Meeting of the Senegalese Academy of Science. Dakar, Senegal. Jan 30-31, 2006

Special Library Association, Washington. April 6, 2006.
http://units.sla.org/chapter/cdc/events_files/Apr0606SLD.html

"Open Archive and Institutional Collaboration". Open Access to Scientific Information. Scientific Working Group at the World Summit on the Information Society. Tunis, Tunisia, Nov. 17, 2005.
http://www.wsis-si.org/

"Accessing, documenting, and disseminating scientific information for development: Experience from Bioline International". Past, Present, and Future of Research in the Information Society, an official side event
preceding Phase II of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), Tunis, Tunisia, 13-15 Nov. 2005.
http://www.worldsci.net/

"AnthroSource: Transforming access, dissemination, and creation of anthropological knowledge". Scholarly Communication in the Age of the Internet. Internet Research 6.0: Internet Generations Sponsored by the
Association of Internet Researchers. Chicago, Oct. 8, 2005.
http://conferences.aoir.org/viewabstract.php?id=328&cf=3

Open Knowledges (Panel) - 3è Colloque Internationale Sur Les Etues Francaises Valorisee Par Les Technologies: Langues et Dialogues Interculturels - 3rd International Colloquium on ICT-Enhanced French Studies: Dialogues Across Languages and Cultures (Oct. 27-29, Toronto) . York University, Toronto
http://www.arts.yorku.ca/french/colloqueef3/programme_oct29.html

"Strategies for building a global knowledge commons: Institutional repository and beyond" Seminar at the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada, Oct, 17, 2005.

“Maximizing Research Impact of Scientific Publications from Developing Countries through Open Access: Experience from Bioline International” International Conference on Policies and Strategies for Open Access to Scientific Information (Beijing, June 22-24, 2005)
http://libraries.csdl.ac.cn/Meeting/MeetingID.asp?action=skin&language=Eng&MeetingID=7&MeetingMenuID=39

 “Does Open Access pose any security risk?” International Forum on Biosecurity. Lake Como, Italy. March 20-22, 2005
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/biso/Biosecurity_Forum.html

“Bioline International as Model of Collaborative Open Access Publishing”. Open Access and Scholarly Communication Conference, Pretoria, South Africa. July 29-30, 2004

“Harnessing Indigenous Knowledge Using Appropriate Technology” . Electronic Publishing 2004: Building Digital Bridges. U of Brasilia, Brazil. June 26, 2004.
http://portal.cid.unb.br/elpub/index.php

“The importance of national and institutional policies for open access”. For the Greater Good: Crisis in Scholarly Communication, McGill University, Montreal. May 17, 2004 
http://www.library.mcgill.ca/symposium/

“Strategies for Advancing Open Access” Open Access and Institutional Repositories, Indian National  Science Academy, New Delhi. May 13, 2004
http://www.insaindia.org/workshop.htm

“The World Summit on the Information Society: Civil Society Perspectives” Presented at the Knowledge Media Design Institute’s Seminar Series: Building Relationships Across the Institute. Feb. 5, 2004, University of Toronto
http://wsis.ecommons.ca/node/view/302

“Making the 'lost sciences' from developing countries visible through collaborative open access publishing: Experience from Bioline International” Presented at the Scientific Information Working Group  meeting, Open Access: Towards a Free Science Revolution in Science or Inevitable Scientific Evolution?  World Summit on The Information Society, Geneva, Switzerland. December 11, 2003
http://www.wsis-si.org/si-events.html

“International trends in open access to scientific knowledge” ICCC/IFIP Seventh International Conference on Electronic Publishing 25-28 June 2003 University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal
http://piano.dsi.uminho.pt/elpub2003/index.html

“Creating Change in Scholarly Communications: Experimentations and Ways Forward.” SPARC/ACRL Forum, Creating Change: Best Practices in Campus Advocacy. ALA/CLA Annual Conference, Toronto, June 21, 2003
http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=h27

“Revolutions in Scholarly Publishing: The Building of a Knowledge Commons” Ontario College and University Library Association Sessions: Ontario Library Association Super Conference Jan. 30, Toronto
http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwlib/ocula/oculasessions2003.html

“Bioline International and the Journal of Postgraduate Medicine: A Collaborative Model of Open Access Publishing”. Presented at the International Symposium on Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science, sponsored by the National Academies (US) and UNESCO. March 10-12, 2003. Paris, France.
http://webworld.unesco.org/real_media/ram/symposium_10-03-2003/mon_15_00_en.ram

Past

“Open access to scientific literature and benefits for developing countries”. Presented at the 11th International Federation for Science Editors Biannual Meeting: Global Science Communication in the New Century. August 11-14, 2002.  Beijing, China.

“Bioline International: A model of collaborative publishing and distribution of scientific research from developing countries”. Presented at the conference Research Innovation and Scholarship: the Role of Open Access Publishing, organized by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, Nov. 21-22, 2002, Ottawa,  Canada.
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/horaire/other/prog-e.html

“Bioline International, bridging the knowledge divides in global science." 2nd Annual Bethune Round Table on International Surgery: Surgical Education for Development. Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Care Centre, February 8th & 9th, 2002.

"Bioline International and Alternative Publishing Systems: Will Small Publishers survive the Electronic Revolution?" Biannual Conference of the International Federation of Science Editors. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Aug. 2000
http://www.bireme.br/ifse-rio/

"Re-engineering for the Knowledge Society." Canadian Library Association Annual Conference, Toronto. With Marla Miller and William Barek. June 1999

"What is a Digital Library?" From Books to Bookmark. Ontario Library Association Conference, Toronto, Canada. With Marla Miller. April 1999

"Wired Scholarship: Implications for Research Libraries." Annual meeting of the Western New York/Ontario chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL): Faculty and Library Relationship. April 1999
http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/~srahman/conference5.html

"Preparing Learners for the Networking Age." Meeting of the Canadian Distance Education Association, in association with the Radio and Television Universities of China, at York University, Toronto. Sept. 1999

"E-publishing and Developing Countries" International Congress of Microbiology, Halifax. May 1998

Workshops

“Open Access and Bioline International”. Open Access and Scholarly Communication Workshop , Vilnius, Lithuania. Feb 21-22, 2005.
http://www.lmba.lt/reng/angl/eoa_v.htm

“Open Access and Bioline International” Open Access and Scholarly Communication Workshop, Kyiv, Ukraine. Feb 17-19, 2005
http://www.a2k.org.ua/news.php?id=31&lng=en

“Institutional Archiving : Policies, Tools and Processes”. Open Access India, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India. May 2-4, May 2-8 2004.
http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~chan/oaindia

Science Editors Workshop on Electronic and Open Access Publishing. Sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. (August 2002), Beijing, China.

Epublishing Workshops in India. Sponsored by the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian Institute of Science (March 2002)
http://www.ias.ac.in/meetings/epubworkshops/index.html

Budapest Open Access Initiative (Dec. 2001). Convened by the Open Society Institute.
http://www.soros.org/openaccess/

"Yet Another Manual? The Importance of Training and Knowledge Transfer" Workshop on Scientific Communication and Publishing in the Electronic Age. Sponsored by the British Council and the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publication. Oxford, England. May 1999
http://www.inasp.org.uk/psi/scpw/list.html