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The Hows and Whys of Campus-Based Open-Access Funds
Greg Tananbaum will discuss the rise of institutionally-supported Open Access Funds - what they are, why institutions are launching them, and the economic and policy considerations that go into their design. Since the late 2009 establishment of the Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE), more than a dozen North American universities have established mechanisms for underwriting OA publication charges.
Open Access to Research Discovery: The VIVO Project
"VIVO is an open source semantic web application originally developed and implemented at Cornell. When installed and populated with researcher interests, activities, and accomplishments, it enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines at that institution and beyond." - VIVO website
Research as a Public Knowledge Project: New Paradigms for Scholarly Publishing
This talk will draw on the Public Knowledge Project's decade-long experience in developing, distributing, and supporting open source solutions that seek to advance the scholarly and public quality of research on more of a global and equitable basis. It will consider the challenges that lie ahead for such initiatives, whether they be technical, cultural, or economic, as we are drawn more fully into the digital era.
University of North Texas: Willis Library
Willis Library, located on the Library Mall in the center of the Denton campus, contains a wide range of study spaces, 24 hour computing, and collections that support research and learning in the arts and sciences.
Greg Tananbaum
Greg is the Founder and CEO of Anianet, a professional network connecting Chinese scholars to their western peers. In addition to these responsibilities, Greg serves as a consultant to publishers, libraries, universities, and information providers as owner of ScholarNext. ScholarNext clients include SPARC, Microsoft, and Annual Reviews. He has been President of The Berkeley Electronic Press, as well as Director of Product Marketing for EndNote.
Mike Conlon
Dr. Conlon is Associate Director and Chief Operating Officer of the University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Director of Biomedical Informatics, UF College of Medicine, and Principal Investigator of the NIH project “VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists.” His responsibilities include development of academic biomedical informatics, expansion and integration of research and clinical information resources and strategic planning for academic health and university research. As PI of the VIVO project, Dr.
John Willinsky
John Willinsky is Khosla Family Professor of Education at Stanford University and sometime professor at the University of British Columbia.