Open Access Week Schedule of Events
Fri, October 18, 2013
The University of California issued the following press release last Friday:
"The Academic Senate of the University of California has passed an Open Access Policy, ensuring that future research articles authored by faculty at all 10 campuses of UC will be made available to the public at no charge. "The Academic Council's adoption of this policy on July 24, 2013, came after a six-year process culminating in two years of formal review and revision," said Robert Powell, chair of the Academic Council. "Council's intent is to make these articles widely — and freely — available in order to advance research everywhere." Articles will be available to the public without charge via eScholarship (UC's open access repository) in tandem with their publication in scholarly journals. Open access benefits researchers, educational institutions, businesses, research funders and the public by accelerating the pace of research, discovery and innovation and contributing to the mission of advancing knowledge and encouraging new ideas and services." Read more...
For more information on this significant development in UC Scholarly Communications, visit:
University of California, Reshaping Scholarly Communications
eScholarship - UC Institutional Repository
The Chronicle of Higher Education Article, Open Access Gains Major Support in University of California's Systemwide Move
The Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP) recognizes individuals who have used, applied, or remixed scientific research — published through Open Access — to make a difference in science, medicine, business, technology or society as a whole.
For more information: http://asap.plos.org
Timeline:
May 1, 2013 - ASAP Program Launch
May 1 - June 15, 2013 - Nominations Accepted
August 2013 - Finalists Notified
October 21, 2013 - Award Winners Announced
The Royal Society of Chemistry recently launched the Gold for Gold initiative to encourage faculty who publish in RSC journals to make their articles open access. This program offers voucher codes that enable Merced researchers to publish their paper in RSC journals free of charge without paying the normal open access article publication fees.
Publishing open access makes your work easier to find, read and disseminate. We hope faculty will consider taking advantage of this opportunity. Voucher codes are available on a first-come first-served basis and must be used before 12/31/13.
For more information on how to apply for a voucher, please visit the RSC Voucher Web Page.
Questions? Contact Susan Mikkelsen 209-658-1832.
KL 260 (GONELLA ROOM)
1:00pm - 2:30pm
WEB CAST - WORLD BANK OPEN KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY/SPARC
Speakers:
KL 260 (GONELLA ROOM)
12:00pm - 1:00pm
WORKSHOP: RESOURCES FOR OPEN DATA PRESENTER, SUSAN BORDA, DIGITAL CURATION LIBRARIAN, UC MERCED
Presentation overview:
KL 260 (GONELLA ROOM)
12:00pm - 1:00pm
FACULTY PANEL DISCUSSION : OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING
UC Merced faculty Miriam Barlow, Peggy O'Day, Mike Dawson, Ignacio Lopez-Calvo, and Interim University Librarian Donald Barclay, will discuss open access publishing considerations for faculty and graduate students and the current issues in scholarly publishing. Find out what these early adopters of open access publishing have to say on this important topic.
Lunch will be provided.
Faculty and graduate students are invited to attend a library-hosted webcast to kick off Open Access Week 2012, Set the Default to Open Access. The webcast is sponsored by the World Bank which recently launched the World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR), and SPARC the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.
Featured Speakers:
The 90-minute panel will be moderated by Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC, with ample time for questions from audience members.
UC Merced scholars are joining the Open Access publishing movement and discovering the benefits of making their research freely available online. As part of Open Access Week programming, the library will host a panel discussion featuring several UC Merced faculty who have published in open access journals. We invite all interested faculty to join us to learn more about this new paradigm in scholarly communications.
Date: Friday October 26, 2012
Time: Noon - 1:00 pm
Location: KL 260 (Gonella Room)
Panel: Peggy O'Day, Mike Dawson, Ignacio Lopez-Calvo, Miriam Barlow, Donald Barclay
Lunch will be provided
The Author's Guild received a stunning blow this week when Federal judge Harold Baer tossed out their copyright infringement lawsuit against the HathiTrust digital repository. This is a major development for academic libraries who seek to provide access to materials under fair use copyright law.
Read more...
Publisher's Weekly, Google Scanning Is Fair Use Says Judge
Association of Research Libraries, LCA Comments on Authors Guild v. HathiTrust Decision
California college students frustrated with the high cost of textbooks got some good news recently, when Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation for a proposal to create a website where textbooks are available for free. The development of affordable open source textbooks for targeted courses would help students attending California Community Colleges, California State Universities, and University of California campuses.
As part of the Graduate Student Lyceum Series of workshops, The UC Merced Library will host a session during the first week of April focused on Academic Publishing.
This workshop will focus on what graduate students should consider when submitting research for publication. Journal impact factors as well as other considerations in the publishing process will be covered in this session, as well as benefits of open access models and the ability to maintain rights to your work.
Date: Wednesday, April 4th
Time: 11am to noon
Location: KL371
Presenters: Emily Lin & Susan Mikkelsen, UC Merced Librarians
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