New England regional event tackles open access and institutional repositories |

"Registration is open for the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s next New England regional event, a panel discussion entitled “Open Access and Institutional Repositories: What Publishers, Librarians, and Researchers Need to Know” and to be held on April 14 at the offices of Wiley in Malden, Mass. The session will focus on open access policies and how libraries and publishers work to support their success. When providing centralized outreach to supporting compliance, librarians must be responsive to faculty and publisher concerns. Publishers, too, must educate authors and even facilitate repository deposits. Every institution has a part to play and is different in its approach to adopting open access policies. Panelists will discuss workflows and policies at their organizations that have been developed to support open access policies adopted by faculties. The evening’s panel will be moderated by Hillary Corbett, Director, Scholarly Communication and Digital Publishing, Northeastern University. Corbett’s panelists will include Kyle Courtney, Copyright Advisor, Harvard University; Katharine Dunn, Scholarly Communications Librarian, MIT; and Robert Boissy, Director, Institutional Marketing and Account Development, Springer US ..."