Participants will work with experts in the field to understand how to better engage faculty at their institution around the crisis in the systems of scholarly communication. You will also learn about the emergence of new models for scholarly communication as well as strategies for creating systemic change. These will include:
* Faculty activism (e.g. editorial board control, author rights, copyright management, and self-archiving)
* New publishing models
* Digital repositories
* Legislative and policy advocacy
Institute planners are committed to creating an experience that allows people with varied expertise to explore scholarly communications issues together. The goal is to have the cohort represent a wide range of professional backgrounds, types and sizes of institutions, and roles within the institutions. Examples of institutional roles include:
* Librarians who work directly with faculty members on campus
* Library administrators
* College and university faculty and administrators
* Those responsible for Digital Repositories
* Librarians with collection development responsibilities
Posted by
George Porter at 2/12/2006 01:15:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
