Category: Knowledge Mobilization

Publishing Fees Workshop – Western Libraries

Western Libraries is offering two workshops on publishing fees:  

Ins and Outs of Publishing Fees  

Have you been asked to pay an article processing charge or other fee to publish your work in a journal? Learn why these fees exist, how you can publish without a fee, and what discounts and fee waivers are available to you as a researcher at Western, including new waiver programs with PLOS and SAGE publishers.

This workshop will be of particular interest to faculty, but staff, undergraduate, and graduate students are also welcome to attend.  

Leave knowing:

  • Types of journals that charge publishing fees
  • Options for paying publishing fees
  • Options for publishing without a fee

New Open Access Agreements with Major Publishers

Western Libraries has announced new agreements with three major publishers that offer new discounts and waivers for open access journal Article Processing Charges (APCs). These new agreements are with SAGE, PLOS, and Elsevier. 

  • SAGE: No APCs for Western-affiliated authors for most SAGE journals (all those that operate on the hybrid subscription/OA model; some exceptions apply) and 40% discount on APCs for journals published on the gold OA model (entirely funded by APCs).
  • PLOS: No APCs for Western-affiliated corresponding authors who publish in PLOS Biology or PLOS Medicine, and 25% discount on APCs for Western-affiliated contributing authors, as part of the PLOS Community Action Publishing program.
  • Elsevier: 20% discount on APCs for Western-affiliated authors.

These agreements were negotiated by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) on behalf of researchers at all CRKN member institutions.

To learn more, register to attend an upcoming Ins and Outs of Publishing Fees workshop. 

As part of their commitment to open access and support of the research mission of the University, Western Libraries has subscribed to several organizations that offer discounts for author processing charges for open access journals. For detailed information, please see the list of memberships.

Another way to make your research widely available is to share it in Scholarship@Western, Western’s institutional repository. There are no fees involved with this route to open access. 

If you have questions about the discounts and waivers, or if you are interested in having your work deposited in Scholarship@Western, please email rsclib@uwo.ca. 

Queer Research Day 2021 – Call for Papers and Presentations

The Sexuality and Gender Research Group at Western University will be holding the eleventh annual Queer Research Day on Wednesday, April 21, 2021. This will be an online conference, so presentations need to be in a format that can be read or otherwise displayed effectively on Zoom. The group welcomes 15 – 20 minute oral presentations, in particular, but is also interested in other types of proposals, including artists’ performances, film screenings, musical events, and other forms of queer work.

Registration is free, but you will be required to register in order to receive the Zoom invitation. More information on registration will be available shortly.

Faculty and graduate students are welcome to participate or just to attend. If you are interested in presenting, please email a short abstract with title or a brief description of your paper or other proposal to Wendy Pearson (wpearson@uwo.ca). The group hopes to include presentations on a wide variety of topics from a broad range of disciplines. The deadline for receiving proposals is April 14, 2021.

Western University Graduate Symposium on Music 2021

Mark your calendars for the Western University Graduate Symposium on Music (WUGSOM) 2021, scheduled for August 20-21. The symposium will feature keynote speaker Dr. Philip Ewell, (Hunter College of the City University of New York). 

Like last year, the conference will be entirely online, although this year submissions from outside of the Western community will be accepted.

Call for Proposals:
The deadline for submission is Friday, May 21st, 2021 at 4:00 pm EST. 
The program committee invites graduate students of from all institutions and all disciplines to submit proposals for papers on any aspect of music, including but by no means limited to music theory, musicology, ethnomusicology, music cognition, music education, composition, and performance. Papers are welcome on any topic and encourage a diversity of excellence in research across many fields.
Presentations are limited to 20 minutes, with a 10-minute question period. All submissions must include the title of the paper and a proposal not exceeding 350 words. Proposals should not include supplementary materials or figures and should not include your name or other identifying information. Please send submissions in MS Word format (.doc or .docx) to wugsom2021@gmail.com. In your cover email, please include your name, university, program, year in program, and preferred email address.

Further information will be posted to the conference website as it becomes available: http://sogsim.com/conference-2021/   

Questions or more information: The Society of Graduate Students in Music, Western University wugsom2021@gmail.com

Western’s Open Access Task Force Consultations

Open access (OA) refers to freely available, digital, online information. Open access scholarly literature is free of charge and often carries less restrictive copyright and licensing barriers than traditionally published works, for both the users and the authors. 

You are invited to share your thoughts about Western’s Open Access and Scholarly Communications, as the Provost’s Task Force begins its consultations for the development of a university-wide open access policy.

Thursday February 11that 1:30 p.m. –http://www.events.westernu.ca/events/libraries/2021-02/open-access-policy.html

Thursday February 25that 10:30 a.m.–http://www.events.westernu.ca/events/libraries/2021-02/open-access-policy-feb25.html

(A Western ID is required to attend these online consultations; no pre-registration necessary)

Building upon the previous work of the task force, at these sessions you will learn about institutional policy options and considerations for Western. The Task Force wants to hear your questions about open access policies, your perceptions of the benefits or any concerns you have about a Western open access policy, and your specific recommendations for this type of policy at Western. Input from Western’s faculty, researchers, and all members of the university community will help shape the future of Open Access at Western.

Western’s Knowledge Exchange School

You are invited to attend Western’s second-annual Knowledge Exchange School, which will be held virtually December 2, 9, and 16, 2020, with morning and afternoon ZOOM sessions offered each week. Topics will include:

  • An overview of knowledge exchange;
  • Enhancing academic writing for dissemination;
  • Developing knowledge exchange plans;
  • Engaging policy-makers;
  • Sharing research through geographical information system (GIS) mapping; and,
  • Writing a pitch for The Conversation Canada.

Open to faculty, staff, trainees, and postdoctoral scholars

For more information about sessions and registration, please visit the Knowledge Exchange School website. For more information about the school, accessibility or to request accommodations, please email Mariam Hayward, Knowledge Exchange and Impact Manager.

The Conversation Canada – Resources

As promised during the October 20 webinar, The Conversation Canada‘s CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Scott White, has supplied Western Research with their one-pager, A Quick guide to writing for the Conversation Canada.

Additionally, for those who were unable to attend—or had to leave early—Western Research has uploaded the recording of the meeting and it is accessible by all Western faculty, students and staff to view at their leisure. Watch the video.

Going forward, all of this information can be found on Western Research’s website. If you have more questions about The Conversation Canada—or its pitch and writing processes—please reach out to Will Kinchlea, Communications and Systems Coordinator at Western Research.

Western Libraries Research Skills Workshops for Graduate Students

Western Libraries is excited to offer a series of free Research Skills Workshops that can help you better understand your research impact, how to retain your copyright as an author, scholarly publishing, data, and more!

These offerings will be of particular interest to graduate students. However, faculty, staff, and undergraduate students are welcome to attend.

Register Today! 

If you have any other ideas for workshops that could be offered, email them to: Western Libraries, Research & Scholarly Communication Team, Email:rsclib@uwo.ca

Western University Graduate Symposium on Music – August 14, 2020

The Western University Graduate Symposium on Music (WUGSOM) Program Committee has posted the final program on the conference website (http://sogsim.com/conference-2020/)

The virtual conference will be held on Friday, August 14th, 2020.

Please register for the conference using this form: https://forms.gle/BvQn7mC83X5Xh2d37

Once you have registered you will be sent an email information, including an invitation to the Zoom meeting where the conference will be held.

WUGSOM is free for all to attend.

Contact: Mark McCorkle, Coordinator, WUGSOM 2020, wugsom2020@gmail.com

Western University Graduate Symposium on Music

21st ANNUAL

WESTERN UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON MUSIC

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Society of Graduate Students in Music at Western University is pleased to announce its 21st annual Graduate Symposium on Music (WUGSOM), August 14th – 15th, 2020. This year Dr. Charles Garrett (University of Michigan) will deliver the keynote address titled ““Our AI Lets Humans Take Control”: Popular Music and Collaborative Artificial Intelligence.”

This year WUGSOM is going virtual! The conference will look quite different from what it is usually as it will be held entirely online. To make the conference more manageable as the organizers navigate this new digital format, submissions for this year’s symposium will be limited to only graduate students at Western. Though this will be a significant change of pace from previous years, it also presents new opportunities and organizers are hard at work developing ideas for how to best take advantage of the digital format and the more intimate scale.

The program committee invites Western graduate students of all disciplines to submit proposals for papers on any aspect of music, including but by no means limited to music theory, musicology, ethnomusicology, music cognition, music education, composition, and performance. They welcome papers on any topic and encourage a diversity of excellence in research across many fields.

The deadline for submission is Friday, June 19th, 2020 at 4:00 pm EST.

Presentations are limited to 20 minutes, with a 10-minute question period. All submissions must include the title of the paper and a proposal not exceeding 350 words. Proposals should not include supplementary materials or figures and should not include your name or other identifying information. Please send submissions in MS Word format (.doc or .docx) to wugsom2020@gmail.com. In your cover email, please include your name, program, year in program, and preferred email address. Further information will be posted to the conference website as it becomes available: http://sogsim.com/conference-2020/

Organized by: The Society of Graduate Students in Music, Western University, wugsom2020@gmail.com

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