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Making an Open Information Age: Power, Freedom and Inequality in an Age of Bits

If you have ever been online, watched a movie or taken a medicine you have been a user of information. Today information in the form of software, databases and innovations is becoming more important than ever before. Information is becoming main thing we make, trade and use.

This is a new world being built on "bits". Its virtual nature makes it different from the physical world of bread and land and cars which can only have one user at a time. By contrast, information can be used by many at the same time — it is nonrival in the terminology of economists.

Live-streaming OA at UC Press: Lessons Learned, and How the Landscape Has Already Changed (joint keynote with Library Publishing Forum)

Launching a new, open-access program (in our case, the models behind Collabra and Luminos) is no small task, as many people at these conferences would attest to. In the case of Collabra, launching a journal that obviously intends to challege a particular point about the economics of scholarly publishing opens up a vast pipeline of commentary, support, and criticism—some of it public, but a lot of it private.

Sarah Baker

Sarah Baker is a User Services Librarian and an Assistant Professor at California State University, Los Angeles. She has an MLIS from San Jose State University. Her diverse research interests include educational technology, student information seeking behavior, open access issues, and young adult literature.

Warren Burggren

Warren Burggren is a Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of North Texas, a research intensive university of 37,000 students just north of Dallas, Texas, USA.  He received his B.Sc.

Douglas Burns

Douglas Burns is the GIS Librarian at the University of North Texas. In this role, he provides reference and technical support to students and faculty. One current project is getting a GIS Data Repository up and running at UNT. He is also actively engaged in community outreach programs in Denton to support nonprofit services using GIS. Previously, he worked at an engineering firm supporting environmental permitting, cultural resource management and infrastructure projects.

Nancy Maron

Nancy has over 20 years of experience working at the nexus of publishing, higher education and technology. Her firm, BlueSky to BluePrint, helps publishers, librarians and other innovative project leaders to define, test and refine assumptions about new and existing programs and products.  While at Ithaka S+R, Nancy’s team developed provocative and insightful studies on funding models and sustainability strategies for digital initiatives, including dozens of case studies in sustainability, spanning US, Canada, UK and beyond. 

Jayati Chaudhuri

Jayati Chaudhuri, User Services Librarian, has an MLIS from the University of Rhode Island and a Master’s degree in Geography from University of Calcutta, India.  Jayati started her career at University of Tennessee Libraries as a Minority Resident Librarian and later she worked at the University of Northern Colorado for 6 years as a science librarian. Jayati contributes articles to Indian newspapers at her leisure time. She also translated library pages in different languages to make use of her multilingual skill.