Call for Proposals – Open Repositories 2021
https://or2021.openrepositories.org/call-for-proposals/
The 16th International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2021, will be held online from 7-10 June 2021 across multiple time zones. Registration is free.
The organisers are pleased to invite you to contribute to the program. The conference theme is: Open for all - How well do repositories support knowledge in the service of society? How well do they enable local knowledge
sharing and support not only academic use, but also use in education and practice?
Invitation to participate
OR2021 will provide an opportunity to explore and reflect on the ways repositories enable openness for all. We hope that this discussion will give the participants new insights and inspiration, which will help them to play a key role in developing, supporting
and sharing an open agenda and open tools for research and scholarship. We particularly welcome proposals on the overall “Open for All” theme, but also on other administrative, organisational or practical topics related to digital repositories. We are interested
in the following sub-themes:
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Pandemic response: how repositories responded to the pandemic, repositories as central tools in the pandemic response and other repository transformations
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Distributed collaborations
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Sustaining community-based infrastructure
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Infrastructure supporting work from home: coping with challenges for repository staff, challenges in collecting institutional statistics and other remote work challenges
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Local systems vs repository as a service
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Securing long-term funding for open infrastructures
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Accessibility of repositories and their content
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Equity and democratization of knowledge
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Inclusion of marginalized and underrepresented voices
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Local knowledge sharing
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Moving beyond traditional academic content and services, supporting educators and practitioners
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Supporting knowledge in the service of society, encouraging non-academic use
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Enabling access to governmental publications/data
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Addressing language barriers
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Integration with other open knowledge resources (e.g. Wikimedia and Wikidata)
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Next Generation Repositories, Pubfair
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Convergence and integration with other types of systems (e.g. current research information systems, digital asset management systems, publishing and e-learning platforms, ORCID)
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Interoperability vs integration
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New models for scholarly sharing
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Data mining, artificial intelligence and machine learning
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Impact of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), POPIA (Protection of Personal Information Act), the EU Copyright Directive and copyright laws
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Publisher policies, embargoes and rights retention
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Licenses and re-use of content
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Compliance and impact of funder policies (e.g. Plan S) on repositories, Rights Retention Strategy
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Data/metadata visualization
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Open access discovery, research data discovery
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Tools for researchers and practitioners, interfaces for machines
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Measuring impact particularly outside of the academic context.
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Supporting use by practitioners.
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Providing access to different types of materials (e.g. research data, scholarly articles, preprints and overlay journals, open access monographs, theses and dissertations, educational resources, archival
and cultural heritage materials, audiovisual materials, software, interactive publications and emerging formats)
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Repositories as digital humanities and open science platforms
Submission Process
The Program Committee has provided templates to use for submissions (see below for links). Please use the submission template, and then submit through ConfTool where
you will be asked to provide additional information (such as primary contact and the conference subtheme your submission best fits). Accepted proposals will be made available through the conference’s website. Later, the presentations and associated materials
will be made available in the Zenodo Open Repositories community; you will be contacted to upload your set of slides or poster.
In June, presentations will be a mix of pre-recorded and live sessions to accommodate for time zones and varied internet connections. We look forward to the vibrant conversations and learning opportunities of the conference.
After the completion of the conference, we may solicit full papers from a selection of presentations in order to be published in the OR2021 proceedings (open access, no article processing charge) in cooperation with a scholarly publisher.
If you are proposing a presentation or panel, please consider whether it would benefit from publication as a journal article.
Submission Categories
Presentations
Panels
24×7 Presentations
Posters
Developer Track
Workshops and Tutorials
Templates
The OR2021 proposal templates help you prepare an effective submission. Please select the submission type below to download the templates. Templates are available in Microsoft Word and Open Doc format. Rich text templates are available
in the All templates zip file. Submission in PDF format is preferred.
Submission System
The submission system is now open – https://www.conftool.net/or2021
Review Process
All submissions will be peer reviewed and evaluated according to the criteria outlined in the call for proposals, including quality of content, significance, originality, and thematic fit. The program committee makes the final decisions
on inclusion in the conference. If you would like to volunteer to be a reviewer, please contact the program committee below. Also, please note that the program committee may accept a submission with the requirement that it move to another format (a presentation
to a poster, for example). In such cases, submitters will have the opportunity to make a decision on whether to accept or decline such a move.
OR2020 Resubmissions for 2021
We invite resubmissions for proposals accepted for OR2020 that were not presented at our virtual event in June. If your proposal fits this criteria, please answer “yes” to the question “Is this a resubmission of an accepted 2020 proposal?”
during the submission.
Code of Conduct
The OR2021 Code of Conduct is available at https://or2021.openrepositories.org/open-repositories-code-of-conduct.
We expect submitters to hold to the Code of Conduct in their proposals, presentations, and conduct at the conference.
Key Dates
Program Co-Chairs
Website and Social Media
Sarah L. Shreeves
Vice Dean
Interim Head of Technology Strategy and Services (TeSS)
University of Arizona Libraries
520.621.0717
Pronouns: she/her/hers
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