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September 29, 2008
Open Access Day, October 14, 2008
Open Access Day is an event intended to raise awareness about issues regarding open access and to educate the scholarly community about policies and mandates. A full schedule of events can be found here.
UT-Knoxville is one of 65 participants of Open Access Day, which is sponsored by SPARC, Students for FreeCulture, and The Public Library of Science..
The program includes webcasts from Sir Richard Roberts and Philip E Bourne.
Would you like to participate?
-Susan Wood
Posted by colldev at 04:47 PM
February 01, 2007
Students Rally for Access to Publicly Funded Research
For immediate release
February 1, 2007
Contact(s):
Gavin Baker
Freeculture.org
grbaker@ufl.edu
(407) 929-5657
Jennifer McLennan
SPARC
jennifer@arl.org
(202) 296-2296 ext. 121
Students Rally for Access to Publicly Funded Research
Campuses declare "National Day of Action" in support of federal legislation
WASHINGTON, DC - February 1, 2007 - Freeculture.org, the international student movement for free culture, in collaboration with the Alliance for Taxpayer Access (ATA), today announced that February 15, 2007 will be a "National Day of Action" for students that support open sharing of scientific and scholarly research findings on the Internet. Events nationwide will highlight the importance of taxpayer access to publicly funded research and rally support for Congressional passage of the Federal Research Public Access Act. The day also marks the fifth anniversary of the landmark Budapest Open Access Initiative, when the worldwide open access movement first took form, and will be supported by the launch of a new Web resource and petition for public access, produced jointly by freeculture.org and the ATA.
The Federal Research Public Access Act was introduced last year by Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and is awaiting reintroduction in the 110th Congress. The bill would require federal agencies that fund over $100 million in annual external research to make manuscripts of peer-reviewed journal articles stemming from that research publicly available via the Internet. (For further information about the legislation, see http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/frpaa/). It is estimated that approximately half of the research conducted at universities is government funded.
Freeculture.org and its 36 chapters nationwide joins 72 other members of the ATA, 132 university and college presidents and provosts, and thousands of taxpayers, patients, researchers, and librarians that have voiced support for the legislation.
"Students are researchers, and were among the first groups to recognize the vast benefits of open access," said Gavin Baker, director of freeculture.org's Open Access project and author of a University of Florida student senate resolution in support of the Cornyn-Lieberman public access bill (http://www.sg.ufl.edu/MeetingPDF%5C155.htm). "Since many of their professors, advisors, and colleagues have conducted their work with the benefit of federal grants, it makes sense that this work should be freely circulated and built upon. Students have coordinated their efforts on a national level to formalize their strong belief that public access to research is the way to move forward."
"Improving access to government-funded research results is critical to advancing science," said David Minh, a University of California San Diego graduate student who serves on the coordinating committee for Universities Allied for Essential Medicines. "Public access to research will not only benefit students and researchers in the United States, but will also empower scientists in the developing world - who have far fewer resources available to them - to accelerate the pace of biomedical research, particularly in neglected diseases."
"Students adding their considerable energy and significant weight to the momentum behind the issue is yet another sign of the strength and breadth of support for public access to research results," said Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, founder of the ATA). "We encourage universities, libraries, researchers, scholarly societies, patient organizations, and consumer groups to support student researchers in making the National Day of Action a success."
Campuses nationwide will be announcing individual events and support for the National Day of Action in the coming weeks. For more information, please visit the freeculture.org-Alliance for Taxpayer Access student resource at http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/students/.
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The Alliance for Taxpayer Access is a coalition of patient, academic, research, and publishing entities that support free public access to the results of federally funded research and advocate passage of the Federal Research Public Access Act. The Alliance was formed in 2004 to urge that peer-reviewed articles stemming from taxpayer-funded research become fully accessible and available online at no extra cost to the American public. Details on the ATA may be found at www.taxpayeraccess.org.
Posted by admin at 02:48 PM
January 31, 2005
Open Access programs to be held at two professional meetings
Februrary 2005 -- AAAS Annual Conference, Washington D.C.:
Access to Scientific Literature: A Policy Perspective (Saturday, February 19, 2005, 9:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.)
This session builds on the idea that publication and dissemination of scientific ideas and discoveries provide the foundation for future progress in science and medicine. Using the origin and current status of the NIH Public Access Policy as a framework, an expert panel, moderated by PLoS’s Helen Goyle and SPARC’s Rick Johnson, will discuss recent developments in access policies, their implications for researchers and the public, and the complex considerations of scientific societies and their journals as they seek to improve access to the scientific literature.
Panelists include: Norka Ruiz Bravo, Deputy Director for Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health; Elizabeth Marincola, Executive Director, American Society for Cell Biology; Donald Kennedy, AAAS and Stanford University; and John Wilbanks, Executive Director of Science Commons.
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April 2005 -- ACRL 12th Annual Meeting, Minneapolis:
SPARC/ACRL Workshop -- Building a Successful Institutional Repository: An Introduction for Smaller Libraries (Friday, April 8, 2005, 2:30 - 6:30 p.m.; Room L100A)
Institutional repositories (IRs) are an important new way for libraries and consortia to partner with faculty and students in scholarly communication. In this workshop, participants will learn about the key aspects of starting a successful institutional repository. Find out how to develop a plan, policies, and a campus marketing strategy. Obtain tips on choosing a service provider, setting up the technical infrastructure internally, or working within a consortium to do so. The workshop is geared for smaller universities and colleges, stressing the "how-to" aspect of creating and maintaining an IR, working within limited resources, and obtaining and gaining faculty participation.
Presenters include John Ober, Director, Policy, Planning and Outreach, Office of Scholarly Communication, California Digital Library; Chris Nolan, AUL, Trinity University; and Susan Gibbons, Digital Initiatives Librarian, University of Rochester. The workshop will feature overviews and live demonstrations of IR software packages, including ProQuest/BE Press’ Digital Commons (Ann Zawistowski, Carleton College); Ex Libris’ Digitool (Ann Pyzynski, Brandeis University), MIT DSpace (Martin Courtois, Kansas State University); and BioMed Central’s Open Repository (Marie Martens, BioMed Central).
[source: SPARC E-News]
Posted by Donna Braquet at 04:01 PM
July 30, 2004
The Book & The Scholar Symposium
The Book and The Scholar: A Symposium Celebrating the Year of the University
Press, will be held September 23-24 at the John C. Hodges Library. For faculty, graduate students, librarians, editors, writers, and other communications professionals, program addresses the value of a university press, expectations of the university for the press, and strategies to nurture the vitality of the press. Co-sponsored by the UT Press and the University Libraries with support from the UT Chancellor's Office.
Program on Tuesday, September 23 features:
* The University Press on the Campus and in the Academic Community
* The University Press and the Academic Career
* Book Publishing Trends in the Digital Age
* Kick-off of TENNESSEE READS, a book club co-sponsored by UT Press and UT Library Friends at the University Club.
Wednesday is a writers' workshop for faculty and graduate students who want to publish with a university press but who are unfamiliar with the process.
For more info call 974-3321 or visit the website at http://www.lib.utk.edu/bookandscholar.
Posted by at 06:20 PM
April 28, 2004
Scholarly Publishing Symposium at Brandeis
On May 4 Brandeis University Library hosts Scholarly Publishing at the Crossroads, a symposium featuring an international panel of publishers who will discuss the costs and benefits of traditional and developing models of scholarly publishing. Speakers are:
-Emilie Marcus, Editor, Cell, and Executive Editor, Cell Press
-Peter Newmark, Editorial Director, BioMed Central
-Vivian Siegel, Executive Director, Public Library of Science
-Margaret Reich, Director of Publications and Executive Editor, American
Physiological Society
Posted by at 04:21 PM
