Do you have a dataset that you would like to add to the UNT Data Repository? Have you heard of the UNT Data Repository but would like to learn more? Do you have questions about formats, rights, or privacy issues related to your datasets that might limit you from sharing it broadly?
How are university presses responding to the move toward open access publishing? What does this mean for authors who want to publish with a university press?
Ron Chrisman, Director of the UNT Press, and Kevin Hawkins, Director of Library Publishing at UNT, will discuss changes at university presses and alternative publishing venues being created by scholar collectives and by libraries.
Open access -- making your research free to read online and allowing your works to be reused in certain ways without people needing to ask permission -- is not just good for readers but good for your career as well.
Dr. Masood Raja, Associate Professor of English, will speak about responding to his colleagues' skepticism about open access and how to tell that your open access scholarship is reaching a greater audience than non-OA publications.
Attendees driving to the symposium should park in the Elm Street Garage. It is located at 2000 Elm Street, with 4 entrances (on Elm Street, Main Street, Harwood Street, and Pearl Street). Parking tickets will be validated at the event.
We are pleased to announce that early registration for the 2015 symposium has been extended through April 17. For more information, see the symposium registration page.
Gretchen McCord will call on her diverse experience to synthesize many of the issues discussed throughout the day by putting them into the context of legal and ethical trends in the larger digital information world.
Kevin Hawkins will present on Publishing by Academic Libraries:
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Barbara Bintliff will present on Open Access to “Open Law”: The Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act:
The universe of Federal Government information today spans a multitude of formats from the earliest days of our republic, throughout the heyday decades of ink-on-paper, to the past twenty years of increased digital only dissemination. Throughout the U.S. Government Publishing Office’s 154-year history, the agency has transformed itself with each advance in publishing, while staying true to its mission of Keeping America Informed. This presentation will discuss recent changes at GPO to improve the discovery of, access to and preservation of official Federal Government information.
