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Open Access Day : Tuesday, October 14 2008, at 7:00 pm
In celebration of the first international Open Access Day on October 14, 2008, the WVU Libraries will be hosting a live, worldwide broadcast at 7:00 PM that day in the Computer Classroom at the Health Sciences Library. This presentation will feature an appearance from Sir Richard Roberts, PhD, FRS, who was the joint winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering split genes and RNA splicing. Currently working at New England Biolabs, he was one of 26 Nobel Prize winners to sign the Open Letter to the U.S. Congress in support of taxpayer access to publicly funded research. The event will also mark the launch of the new “Voices of Open Access Video Series.” Key members of the research community, including a teacher, librarian, researcher, student, patient advocate, and a funder, will speak on why they are committed to Open Access.
Open Access is the principle that publicly funded research should be freely accessible online, immediately after publication, and it is gaining ever more momentum around the world as research funders and policy makers put their weight behind it. Recent mandates by funders, including that of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (the world’s largest research funder), which now requires that all their funded research be placed in an openly accessible database — have further strengthened the prospects for Open Access to all research.
The WVU Libraries have an Open Access webpage at http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/open-access with information about Open Access publishers available to WVU faculty with reduced fees, and recordings of previous presentations at WVU about open access. For further information, contact Susan Arnold at susan.arnold@mail.wvu.edu, or John Hagen at john.hagen@mail.wvu.edu
Thursday May 1 2008, at 10:00 a.m.
Heather Joseph, Executive Director of ARL SPARC, will be speaking on Thursday May 1, at 10:00 a.m. in the NRCCE Room 101B. Her talk will cover what faculty researchers need to know about open access.
Heather Joseph joined SPARC as director in July 2005. She leads SPARC's advocacy efforts to support widespread adoption of open access to scholarly research. Before coming to SPARC, she was President and Chief Operating Officer for BioOne, a SPARC publisher partner. Under her leadership, BioOne focused on helping small scholarly societies in the biological sciences remain independent and competitive in the electronic arena, while maintaining academy friendly access policies. For her work in successfully launching and establishing BioOne, Heather was awarded the 2002 Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers’ Award for Services to Not-for-Profit Publishing. She also served as elected president of the Society for Scholarly Publishing for the 2004–2005 term.
The WVU Libraries have purchased institutional memberships in BioMed Central and Public Library of Science which reduce the required author publication fees for WVU faculty researchers. The Libraries have also negotiated discounts for WVU authors in Oxford University Press Open Access Journals.
Friday April 25 2008, at 11:00 a.m.
Barbara Epstein, Director of the Health Sciences Library System at Pitt, will be speaking on changes in scholarly communication with an emphasis on open access and the new NIH mandate, Friday April 25, at 11:00 a.m. in the Health Sciences Auditorium.
Barbara was appointed director of the Health Sciences Library System in 2004. She received her BA from the University of Pittsburgh and her master’s degree in library science from Case Western Reserve University. Epstein has served as principal investigator or project manager on a number of grants and contracts, including outreach contracts from the National Library of Medicine to provide training for public health professionals and public librarians in Western Pennsylvania. She is a "distinguished member" of the Academy of Health Information Professionals of the Medical Library Association. In addition to many national presentations, Barbara has authored more than 20 publications, focusing on the role of the academic medical center library in training public librarians, designing curricula, Internet health resources, management challenges in health science librarianship, and mental health information resources