Today, 16 February 2012, is the first in a series of three seminars to be held at Otago for academic leaders and senior managers. Broadly speaking the series seeks to start a discussion about how scholarship is changing with the tools at our disposal for sharing and collaboration. The open movement is growing in momentum around the world. How does this affect Otago? What are others doing? What are we doing already and what else could we do?

The first session today focuses on open publishing as a way into the topic. And we’re delighted to have two keynotes from people involved at the forefront of the growing open movement: Natalia Timiraos from BioMed Central (one of the biggest Open Access publishers of academic research) and Jane Hornibrook from Creative Commons Aotearoa NZ.

It’s going to be a great day. Otago people who want to join in by watching the stream, email me @ richard.white@otago.ac.nz . Or follow the #openotago hashtag on Twitter.