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Concordia
Librarians staffed welcome desks with OA displays and handouts etc. in both Concordia Libraries (as
per Fall 2008) – probably not something we will continue – and we also advertised our extensive OA
web site information using the OA logo etc. on our main page. But our main focus was on the launch of
Spectrum, Concordia’s institutional repository, for which see attached press release.
Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository Launched
Concordia University Libraries is proud to mark international Open Access Week (October 19 – 23) with
the launch of Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository. Spectrum is a new digital resource
which, in keeping with the university's strategic plan to develop community engagement and social
responsibility, can make Concordia scholarship freely accessible to everyone via the internet.
Spectrum currently contains the full text of over 6000 theses and dissertations produced at the
university from 1967 to 2003. It also offers Concordia faculty and researchers an additional venue for
sharing their research using a simple process of self‐submission. The name Spectrum reflects the variety
of original research and creative activity that characterizes the scholarly output of Concordia University.
The database, in development since 2007, is an initiative of the Concordia University Libraries supported
by the Office of the Vice‐President, Research & Graduate Studies.
"I am delighted to see the launch of this significant new resource," said Louise Dandurand, Vice‐
President, Research and Graduate Studies. "The creation of a Research Repository speaks to Concordia's
commitment to increase its contribution to world knowledge and promote public access to the results of
publicly funded research."
"Research deposited in Spectrum is highly visible, because the site will be searchable using popular
search engines such as Google and Google Scholar," added Jocelyn Godolphin, Associate University
Librarian for Collection Services. "Concordia University now joins some 1200 other repositories round
the world in providing a university‐wide open access repository which will increase accessibility and
preserve the scholarship produced by Concordia University researchers."
Explore Spectrum at: http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/.
Spectrum workshop: Increase the Visibility of your Research on October 22 in Webster Library and on
October 26 in Vanier Library will review the submission process and kinds of scholarly publications that
can be added at this time to Spectrum. For more information, contact: Spectrum@alcor.concordia.ca.
Ottawa
The University of Ottawa hosted two engaging presentations on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 as part of
International Open Access Week. The first talk, “Open Access: How it Can Reform the Science of Health
Care,” given by Dr. Stephen Choi, Co‐Editor‐in‐Chief of Open Medicine and Associate Program Director,
Emergency Medicine Residency, brought to light serious issues plaguing traditional publication models
used for disseminating medical research. The second talk, “Open Access 2.0: Why Canada's University
Should Become Canada's Open Access University,” given by Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair in
Internet and E‐commerce Law, sought to encourage Canadian universities to adopt official policies that
would make open access dissemination of research mandatory. Unfortunately, the event was
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