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Reminder: We welcome you to join us for our next Information Management (IM) Public Lecture. Poster attached. Please share with your network. Apologies for cross-posting. Co-sponsored by Dalhousie Libraries, the School of Information Management and the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences. Part of International Open Access Week<http://www.openaccessweek.org/>. The Future of Open Access to Research and Scholarship: Lessons from the Medieval to the Early Modern Era Dr. John Willinsky Stanford University Lecture Details Monday, October 23rd, 2017 4:00pm Great Hall, University Club<https://www.dal.ca/campus-maps/building-directory/studley-campus/university-club.html>, 6259 Alumni Crescent (just off South Street) Abstract: This talk will set the current state of open access in scholarly publishing within a larger history of access to learning that reaches back to the medieval period in the West. It will consider the role of the intellectual properties of learning played in the rise of both the university and modern copyright law. This history suggests a number of principles that might be kept in mind when considering today's various initiatives for pursuing universal open access to research and scholarship, now that such access is being increasingly accepted as the longterm goal for scholarly publishing. Biography: John Willinsky holds a PhD from Dalhousie University and is Khosla Family Professor of Education at Stanford University, as well as Professor (Part-Time) of Publishing Studies at Simon Fraser University. He directs the Public Knowledge Project, which develops open source scholarly publishing software and his forthcoming book is entitled The Intellectual Properties of Learning: A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke (University of Chicago Press). The Information Management Public Lectures give attention to exciting advances in research and professional practice. The topics are diverse reflecting the importance and global extent of Information Management in today's society. The lectures are open to all members of the Dalhousie campus and surrounding community. Click here <https://www.dal.ca/faculty/management/school-of-information-management/news-events/information-managementpubliclectureseries.html> for the full schedule. At this point, the plan is to record the lecture - details TBD.