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February 08, 2008
Open Access Forum - March 26, UCONN Storrs
Forum on Open Access Mandates Set for March 26 at Dodd Research Center, UCONN Storrs.
The UCONN libraries will sponsor a public forum focusing on the impact of recent developments in scholarly publishing entitled, “Mandatory Open Access : Friend or Foe? Coming to terms with National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Federal Research Public Access Act legislation”, on March 26 from 3 to 5pm in Konover Auditorium in the Thomas J Dodd Research Center, UCONN Storrs.
The event will explore the newly passed NIH public access mandate which became law in December 2007. The NIH mandate requires that journal articles resulting from NID-funded research to be made freely available to the public 12 months after publication. The forum will also look at proposed legislation such as the 2006 Federal Research Public Access Act, which would expand that mandate to include research funded by other U.S. government agencies.
Scheduled to speak are Heather Joseph, executive director of Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), and former president and chief executive officer of BioOne, (a non-profit collaboration to bring biology society journals into the digital realm); Kent Holsinger, UCONN faculty member, past president of American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), and a member of the board of directors for BioOne; Samuel Kaplan, Chair, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Health Science Center and Chair, Publications Board of the ASM, American Society of Microbiology; and Greg Anderson, Vice Provost for Research, Dean of the Graduate School at UCONN, and past president of AIBS, who will serve as moderator.
The forum is sponsored by the University of Connecticut Libraries’ Scholarly Communications Team. Please address questions to Arta Dobbs, Collection Management Librarian, dobbs@nso.uchc.edu x2432.
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