Faculty and staff will have an opportunity to discuss ways to take control of their scholarly work in the 5th Annual Symposium on Scholarly Communication set for Nov. 9 from 1 to 3:30 p.m. in the Student Union Building Ballroom A.
The keynote speaker will be Jean-Claude Guédon, Ph.D., a professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Montreal. He will talk on “Researchers and the Public Good: Why Mandating Open Access is Both Important and Fair.”
Guédon is the founder of “Surfaces”, the first Canadian electronic scholarly journal, in 1991. He has written a number of papers on the theoretical and practical issues regarding electronic publishing. He has also been actively engaged in scholarly communications projects including serving on the steering committees of the Canadian National Site Licensing Project and the Digital Library of Electronic Theses and Dissertations.
Joining Guédon on the program are Erinn Aspinall, MSI, Philip Kroth, MD,MS and Holly Phillips, MLIS,MS from the UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center. Their discussion is titled “The NIH Public Access Policy: UNM author Participation and Attitudes.”
Christine Zuni Cruz, JD a professor at the UNM School of Law will speak on “Putting Theory into Practice: Experience as Editor-in-Chief of the Open Access Publication Tribal Law Journal.”
Registration is free and can be done online at
http://hsc.unm.edu/library/sc/symposium5.shtml
Media Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu
Posted by kwentworth at October 20, 2006 12:39 PM