Library Directors (Independents) Meeting
All Directors Meeting - WebEx
Library Advisory Council Meeting - CANCELLED
Library Directors (2 Year) Meeting - CANCELLED
Library Directors (Independents) Meeting - CANCELLED
ETD Center Council Meeting - Bale Conference Room
Open Access initiatives: MIT Libraries and The MIT Press
Advanced Topics in Open Access Webinar. Ellen Finnie of MIT Libraries and Nick Lindsay of The MIT Press will talk on MIT's institutional commitment to OA in terms of publishing journals, monographs and also for faculty and researchers. Limited capacity, OhioLINK and ICOLC only.
How Can We Make Open Access Work for Books?
Advanced Topics in OA Webinar. Charles Watkinson, Associate University Librarian for Publishing / Director, University of Michigan Press. As journal articles reach an open access tipping point, academic books are in danger of being marginalized. Monographs suffer from issues around funding (where is the money going to come from?) and the structure of the information supply chain (how can we make OA books discoverable when commercial entities control the main channels?).
Open Access from a Humanities Perspective: Contextualizing Openness and Accessibility, Interrogating the Meaning of Metrics, and Digging Deep on Process, with Some Numbers for the Math Fans.
Advanced Topics in OA Webinar. Karin Wulf, director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, which has been publishing the William and Mary Quarterly, the leading journal in early American scholarship, and Professor of History at the College of William & Mary. This webinar will focus on the diversity of scholarly publishing, looking at the ways that humanities scholarship develops from a collaborative, community process and is typically published with non-profit, often society and university publishers.
