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Poster Session and Catered Break
This poster session will be held in conjunction with the Society of Southwest Archivists Annual Meeting and may include posters related to applied or theoretical research in archives, archival or records projects, or Open Access in research, teaching, publishing, libraries, archives, or any of the disciplines.
Archives and Open Access
In this session, the presenters will speak about ways that archives can engage with the open movement and capture more of the content that is publicly available on the internet while being mindful of the ethical considerations that this raises.
Open Pedagogy and Open Texts
This session will look at some of the ways open pedagogy and open texts have been employed in the classroom and across the curriculum. Rebecca Frost Davis will discuss tools and strategies for open pedagogy, as well as some of its implications for how we teach. Ed Nagelhout and Philip Rusche will answer the question, "When is a textbook not a textbook?, by sharing details of their community authored open humanities textbook project.
Supporting OA through Library Budgets
In this session, library leaders will discuss their institutions' agreements with scholarly publishers such as Elsevier, ACM, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and Sage by which library funding supports making publications available through open access.
Evolving Practices for Open Access
This session will provide a broad look at some of the ways Open Access is impacting higher education in the areas of scholarship, publishing, teaching, and library & information services. John Sherer will discuss the Sustainable History Monograph pilot project from the UNC Press, which offers a new funding model and workflows for university press monographs. Katherine D.
Elaine L. Westbrooks
Since August 2017, Elaine L. Westbrooks has been the Vice Provost for University Libraries and University Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is responsible for the leadership and general administration of the University Libraries which includes 9 libraries with approximately 300 staff.
Keith Webster
Keith Webster was appointed Dean of University Libraries at Carnegie Mellon University in July 2013 and was additionally appointed as Director of Emerging and Integrative Media Initiatives in July 2015. He also has a courtesy academic appointment at the University’s H. John Heinz III College. Previously, Keith was Vice President and Director of Academic Relations and Strategy for the global publishing company John Wiley and Sons.
Micah Vandegrift
Micah Vandegrift’s research focuses on the evolution of policies and technologies that maximize the dissemination and impact of publicly engaged scholarship. Specifically, he is developing a concept of documentation as a form of scholarly communication, and exploring the evolving landscape of evaluating and validating new forms of scholarly output. As NC State University Libraries’ first Open Knowledge Librarian, Micah is dedicated to building programs and processes for the research and learning community to embrace a more open scholarly praxis.