Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Studies in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. She also holds appointments in the Departments of African American Studies, Gender Studies, and Education. Her research on the design and use of applications on the Internet is at the intersection of race, gender, culture, and technology.
Bernard F. Reilly is president of the Center for Research Libraries, an international consortium of university, college and independent research libraries, based in Chicago. CRL is the largest and most enduring collection development cooperative, with holdings of over 5 million volumes and growing digital resources covering all world regions.
The University of North Texas Libraries thank the following organizations for their generous sponsorship of the Open Access Symposium 2017:
We are pleased to offer the following sponsorship opportunities:
Plans are coming together for Making Use of Public Data, this year's UNT Open Access Symposium, to be held May 18–19, 2017, at the UNT New College at Frisco.
The UNT Libraries Scholarly Communication Office is hosting an Open Textbook workshop during which faculty can discover open textbooks in their field and learn more about the Open Textbook Network.
Attendees of the Library Publishing Forum 2016 and Open Access Symposium 2016 may take advantage of UNT's relationship with Camp Fire Child Care Network for referrals to licensed, trained child-care providers available while attending these events. Simply call +1 817 831 5060 and mention that you will be attending a conference at UNT.
The UNT Libraries, with generous support from UNT’s Student Innovative Fund for Teaching, have joined the Open Textbook Network (OTN), a network of institutions committed to access, affordability, and student success through open textbooks, as part of a pilot program in support of open educational resources (OER). Use of open textbooks (academic textbooks that are free, openly licensed, and complete) creates a measurable, positive impact on student success.
UNT's Open Acccess Symposium 2017 was held the May 18–19 at the University of North Texas New College at Frisco.
