5th Annual Symposium on Scholarly Communication
Navigating the Currents of Scholarly Communication: Government Mandates for Public Access to Research
Held November 9th, 2006, 1-3:30, Student Union Ballroom A
Researchers and the Public Good: Why Mandating Open Access is Both Important and Fair
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Jean-Claude Guédon, PhD [Keynote Speaker], Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Montreal
A phrase comes back often in the free software communities: give back to the community a little of what you got from it. Researchers are in the largest "free content" ever created and they are supported by the community - i.e. public money – to do a good share of their research. In many countries, this argument is picking up speed both on a political and ethical plane. The lecture will explore some of these dimensions in an international context.
Dr. Guédon is a professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Montreal. He is the founder of Surfaces, the first Canadian electronic scholarly journal, in 1991. He has written numerous 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.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy: UNM Author Participation and Attitudes
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Erinn Aspinall, MSI, Philip Kroth, MD, MS, and Holly Phillips, MLIS, MS, UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center
The presenters are part of the NIH Policy Task Force at the UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center (HSLIC). They have presented and performed research on the NIH Policy and open access publishing, including a method to measure UNM's contribution to PubMed Central in accordance with the NIH Policy.
Recently, the NIH Policy Task Force surveyed 128 UNM investigators who received NIH funding in fiscal years 2003, 2004, and 2005 to determine investigators' awareness of the Policy, barriers to participating in the Policy and how HSLIC can provide resources and training to support Policy compliance.
Putting Theory into Practice: Experience as Editor-in-Chief of the Open Access Publication Tribal Law Journal
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Christine Zuni Cruz, JD, Editor-in-Chief, Tribal Law Journal and Professor of Law, UNM School of Law
Christine Zuni Cruz is Editor-in-Chief of Tribal Law Journal, an on-line law journal dedicated to the internal law of indigenous peoples. She is Professor of Law at the UNM School of Law, where she was the first pueblo woman to earn tenure as a law professor. Christine Zuni Cruz has a J.D. from the University of New Mexico School of Law and joined UNM in 1993 to establish the Southwest Indian Law Clinic, which provides students with a hands-on opportunity to practice Indian Law. She had served as a tribal judge, a tribal gaming commissioner and been in private practice.
The past four Annual Symposia were well attended by university faculty, staff and students and generated many requests to continue the scholarly publishing dialog at UNM. For more information, read about 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 Holly Buchanan, Carol Parker, or Martha Bedard.