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Data Access for Research and Teaching in the Twenty-First Century

The scientific community is facing new opportunities and new requirements in the ways that data are managed and made available for future research. There has been a dramatic increase in the volume of data produced by observations, experiments, and simulations, turning a steady stream of data into a flood that spans the globe. This in turn calls for new infrastructure and new architectures that will allow researchers to make use of those data and engage in new long-distance collaborations.

Myron Gutmann

Myron Gutmann is the Assistant Director for the National Science Foundation (NSF) as well as the Head of Directorate for the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences at the NSF. He was among the first of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program partners, and played a key role in shaping the Library of Congress partnership network. His project has been highly successful in demonstrating the practical utility of a distributed preservation network, as well as in bringing at-risk data under stewardship.

UNT Health Science Center

The UNT Health Science Center is one of the nation's distinguished graduate academic health science centers, dedicated to education, research, patient care and service. It comprises the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM), the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS), the School of Public Health (SPH), the School of Health Professions (SHP), which includes the Physician Assistant Studies and the Physical Therapy Programs, and the UNT College of Pharmacy. UNT Health is the faculty practice providing direct patient care for the citizens of Tarrant County.

Dr. Peter Binfield Announced as the 2014 Keynote Speaker

Today we are announcing our keynote speaker for the 2014 Open Access Symposium. Dr. Peter Binfield has worked in the academic publishing world for almost 20 years. He is currently co-founder and publisher at PeerJ. Since gaining his PhD in Optic Physics, he has held positions at Institute of Physics, Kluwer Academic, Springer, SAGE and most recently the Public Library of Science (PLoS).

2014

The 2014 symposium will examine the economics, business models, and practice of Open Access (OA) publications. For the purpose of delving more deeply and analytically into these aspects of successful OA, economics should be broadly understood as all of the opportunities and challenges of OA publications at either the micro or macro level that contribute to long term sustainability of OA publications. What lessons has the field learned to date about effective strategies for sustaining OA publications. How do OA publications fit into the larger cycle of scholarly communication?

Peter Binfield (Keynote)

Dr. Peter Binfield has worked in the academic publishing world for almost 20 years. Since gaining a PhD in Optical Physics, he has held positions at Institute of Physics, Kluwer Academic, Springer, SAGE and most recently the Public Library of Science (PLoS). At PLoS he ran PLoS ONE, and developed it into the largest and most innovative journal in the world. He is a respected authority in the academic publishing and Open Access worlds and has made numerous presentations to industry and academia.