Open Access Panel Discussion

Abstract

Bios: Ken N. Meadows is an educational researcher with the Teaching Support Centre and Adjunct Research Faculty in the Faculty of Education at Western University. He co-ordinates scholarship of teach­ing and learning initiatives, supports librarians and staff in their research and program evaluation endeavours, and serves as Managing Editor for The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. His research focuses on positive faculty and stu­dent development, the impact of educational development programs, and teaching cul­tures in post-secondary institutions. He completed his Ph.D. in Psychology at Western University in 2003. Sean Lewis is the Editor-in-Chief of the Western Journal of Legal Studies and a third-year law student at Western Law. In his time on the Journal, Sean was previously a Staff Editor and Managing Editor, and has worked with the Journal’s Executive to develop a new Blog, www.wjlschambers.com, a re-designed website, and a more structured review process for articles. Prior to attending law school Sean served on the Western undergraduate political science journal, The Social Contract, and the Graduate Journal for Political Science at York University, Problematique. Founded in 2011, the Western Journal of Legal Studies is an open-access law reviewing focusing on submissions that are novel, non-obvious, and useful. The Journal has been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada and recently published an article by Canada’s Chief Justice, Beverly McLachlin. For more information, please visit the Journal’s website at: http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/uwojls/. Kelly Hatch is a Research and Instructional Librarian at the Allyn & Betty Taylor Library. Along with several of her colleagues, they support the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry. As part of her instruction responsibilities, Kelly has delivered several sessions on Open Access including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), New Principal Investigators Meeting in 2014

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