Annual UNM Symposia on Scholarly Communication
Co-sponsored by: the UNM Office of the Provost for Academic Affairs, the Office of the Executive Vice-President for Health Sciences, the UNM University Libraries, the Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center, and the Law Library
About the Symposium
Scholarly communication is changing rapidly in ways that hit at the heart of
the academy across all disciplines. These trends affect how faculty,
researchers, librarians, and students undertake work and have an impact on
authorship, editorial boards, promotion and tenure decisions, and budgets.
The purpose of the Symposium is to raise consciousness, seek advocacy, and
create a greater sense of self-determination about major issues and
opportunities as they relate to the faculty of the University of New Mexico
(UNM) and the future of scholarly communications on this campus. UNM faculty
must be knowledgeable about the changes relative to scholarly communication. It
is an important first step toward building support in the academic community for
adopting new approaches to publishing and disseminating faculty knowledge. The
Symposium is designed to lay the foundation for a robust campus dialogue and new
initiatives.
Past Symposia
5th Annual Symposium: Navigating the Currents of Scholarly Communication: Government Mandates for Public Access to Research
Held November 9th, 2006
Speakers:
Jean-Claude Guédon, PhD [Keynote]
Guédon's presentation was titled "Researchers
and the Public Good: Why Mandating Open Access is Both Important and Fair"
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Holly Phillips, MLIS, MS
Phillips' presentation was titled "The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy: UNM Author Participation and Attitudes"
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Christine Zuni-Cruz, JD
Zuni-Cruz's presentation was titled "Putting Theory into Practice: Experience as Editor-in-Chief of the Open Access Publication
Tribal Law Journal"
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4th Annual Symposium: The Digital Academy: Innovations in Scholarly Publishing
Held November 1st, 2005
Speakers:
Ann J. Wolpert, MLS [Keynote]
Wolpert's presentation was titled "Institutional Repositories: An Innovative Solution
for the Scholarly Community."
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Abby Smith, PhD
The title of her talk was "More Innovative than We Think."
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3rd Annual Symposium: Cultural Transformation of the University's Knowledge Base
Held March 3rd, 2005
Speakers:
Daniel Greenstein [Keynote]
Greenstein's presentation was titled “Institutional Repositories: What
Problems Are They Trying To Solve, For Whom, and Who Should Care?”
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2nd Annual Symposium: Stewardship of the University Community’s Knowledge Base
Held March 12, 2004
Speakers:
Lawrence Lessig, J.D. [Keynote]
Lessig's presentation was titled "The Progress of Science: What's at
Stake in the Free Culture Debate."
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Johann van Reenan, M.S.
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1st Annual Symposium: The Scholarly Communication Crisis: A Call for a Public Goods Solution
Held February 27, 2003
Speakers:
David Shulenburger, Ph.D. [Keynote]
Rick Luce
UNM Faculty Panel Discussion: Moderated by Provost Foster, the panelists included Samuel Keith, MD, Department of Psychiatry; Bernard Moret, PhD, Computer Science; and Vera Norwood, PhD, Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences.
All the Annual Symposia have been well attended by university faculty, staff and students and generated many requests to continue the dialog. If you have any questions, or wish to provide feedback to the symposium planning committee, please feel free to contact Drs. Martha Bedard or Holly Buchanan.