2nd Annual Symposium on Scholarly Communication
Stewardship of the University Community’s Knowledge Base
March 12, 2004
The University of New Mexico's Second Annual Symposium on Scholarly Communication: Stewardship of the University Community’s Knowledge Base was held March 12, 2004.
The keynote speaker for the event was Lawrence Lessig, J.D., Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, founder of the School’s Center for Internet and Society, and considered one of the Top 50 Visionaries by Scientific American for arguing "against interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse online." He is the author of The Future of Ideas and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. He also chairs the Creative Commons project. Professor Lessig is a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a Board Member of the Center for the Public Domain, and a Commission Member of the Penn National Commission on Society, Culture and Community at the University of Pennsylvania.
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View Lawrence Lessig's talk via streaming video |
Institutional repositories were the subject of speaker Johann van Reenen, M.Sc., M.Dip. Lib. Sci., UNM Associate Professor, Assistant Dean for Public and Research Services of the UNM General Library and Director of Centennial Science and Engineering Library. He is an internationally recognized advocate of institutional repositories with a strong interest in the reinvention of scholarly publishing processes.
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View Johann van Reenan's talk via streaming video |
The symposium included roundtable discussions that provided attendees an opportunity to discuss the application of new scholarly models to the academic enterprise.
The past three Annual Symposia were well attended by university faculty, staff and students and generated many requests to continue the dialog, and to provide emphasis on how disciplines in the humanities and social sciences are affected by the changing nature of scholarly publishing. For more information, read about the all the UNM Scholarly Communication Symposiums.
If you have any questions, or wish to provide feedback to the symposium planning committee, please feel free to contact Dr. Holly Buchanan.