Open Access Week
For the first time, UNT is participating in International Open Access Week, and the Digital Scholarship Co-Operative and Libraries are taking the lead! Open Access Week is a global event, now in its 6th year, promoting Open Access as a new norm in scholarship and research.
DiSCo and the Libraries are teaming up with the College of Information and the Honors College, and UNT's Research and Visualization Environment (RAVE), to offer educational programming about the importance of OA @ UNT. There are three major events planned - a faculty panel, a student panel, and an Academic Poster Design Workshop.
October 22, 3-5 p.m.
UNT SPEAKS OUT ON FACULTY RESEARCH & OPEN ACCESS
Co-Sponsored with UNT Libraries
William E. Moen, Associate Dean for Research, College of Information
Laura Waugh, Scholarly Works Librarian, UNT Libraries
Rebecca Dickstein, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Qunfeng Dong, Assistant Professor, Departments of Biological Sciences & Computer Science and Engineering
J. Britt Holbrook, Assistant Director, Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity
October 23, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
ACADEMIC POSTER DESIGN WORKSHOP
Sponsored by UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
Jesse Hamner, Director of UNT's Research and Visualization Environment (RAVE)
Registration is free.
October 24, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
SPARC ADDENDUMS AND AUTHOR RIGHTS WORKSHOP
This free workshop will provide tips and instruction on protecting your rights as an author when publishing your work and how to achieve wider dissemination of your work through the Open Access UNT Scholarly Works institutional repository. This workshop is being offered as part of the 2012 International Open Access Week @ UNT initiative and is sponsored by the UNT Libraries.
Kris Helge, Scholarly Communications Librarian for the UNT Libraries, will be the key presenter. Topics will include: Copyright Basics, Creative Commons Licensing, Authors' Rights, Using a SPARC Addendum, and Publishing Contracts.
For questions, please contact Kristyn.Helge@unt.edu or Laura.Waugh@unt.edu.
October 25, 3-5 p.m.
UNT SPEAKS OUT ON STUDENT RESEARCH & OPEN ACCESS
Co-Sponsored with UNT Libraries and The Honors College
Gloria Cox, Dean of The Honors College
Laura Waugh, Scholarly Works Librarian, UNT Libraries
With Students:
Angela Manglaris, Department of Political Science
Amy Schade, Department of Biological Sciences and Honors College
Sara Montejano, Department of Teacher Education and Administration
Briana Camp, Department of Art Education and Art History
And Faculty:
John Ishiyama, Department of Political Science
Lee Hughes, Department of Biological Sciences
Jeanne Tunks, Department of Teacher Education and Administration
Jennifer Way, Department of Art Education and Art History
We hope you can join us for any or all of these events!
