Open access publishing enables anyone, anywhere in the world to read the fruits of academic research absolutely free of charge. It’s an exciting development that has been around for some years in science and medicine — and indeed many academics in all disciplines self-publish openly on the Web too. However, with the introduction of the RCUK’s policy on 1st April open access now applies across the board to research funded by the Councils, and over the past few months Oxford has been conducting an awareness-raising programme which includes a dedicated OAO website.

• Make: Collecting memorabilia – real and virtual
  Monday 29 April from 12:30 to 13:30
  http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/TM13A

For our projects collecting First World War memorabilia across Europe we combine online crowdsourcing with ‘Roadshow’

events to reach and engage a wide audience. This session will introduce the Oxford Community Collection Model and show

how it has been used for projects such as The Great War Archive and Europeana 1914-1918.

• Make: The Pocket Librarian
  Tuesday 30 Apr from 12:30 to 13:30
  http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/TM13B

As part of a recent JISC Transformations project, the libraries at Oxford University have been creating an on-line library

induction which can be accessed through smart phones and tablet computers. This induction is designed to answer common questions

posed by undergraduate freshers who often find the Oxford library system confusing and difficult. In this talk we will discuss the

purpose of the induction and how it was designed and developed. This talk may be of interest to anybody wishing to use mobile t

echnology to help teach or assist students.

• Make: Oxford access for You(Tube)
  Wednesday 1 May from 12:30 to 13:30
  http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/TM13C

In this session Simon Clark will  outline his experience of running the Oxford access-oriented YouTube channel ‘SimonOxfPhys’,

which has received over 150,000 views and almost 1,000 subscribers. This experience has suggested a strategy, complementary to

current approaches, that could reveal Oxford to potential students through the use of on-line video blogs (vlogs). This comparatively

nascent format would make Oxford stand apart from other halls of learning for the web 2.0 generation, and continue its history of innovation

and prestige.

• Make: Urban design goes global – a recipe for engaging staff and students?
  Thursday 2 May from 12:30 to 13:30
  http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/detail/TM13D

We will be discussing our developing project for an open educational resource for the urban design modules at Oxford Brookes University.

We have been working on creating a very collaborative and open environment on the web, highly dynamic and integrated to social networks which

can facilitate learning and teaching at Brookes at an initial stage and then progress to a global audience. The project uses diy webdesign and encourages

students and staff  participation by making academic content public.

The Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School (DHOXSS) is an annual training event taking place this year on 8 – 12 July 2013 at the University of Oxford for researchers, project managers, research assistants, and students of Digital Humanities. DHOXSS delegates are introduced to a range of topics including the creation, management, analysis, modelling, visualization, or publication of digital data for the humanities. Each delegate follows one of our 5-day workshops and supplements this with guest lectures by experts in their fields. There are a limited number of bursaries available for University of Oxford DPhils and Early-Career Researchers.

There are a variety of evening events including a peer-reviewed poster session to give delegates a chance to demonstrate their work to the other delegates and speakers. The Thursday evening sees an elegant drinks reception and three-course banquet at the historic Queen’s College Oxford.

DHOXSS is a collaboration for Digital.Humanities@Oxford between the University of Oxford’s IT Services, the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC), the Bodleian Libraries, and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities.