tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hub_feeds/1796/feed_itemsColumbiaSCP's bookmarks2012-10-16T22:30:25-04:00TagTeam social RSS aggregratortag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/506642012-10-16T21:35:58-04:002012-10-16T22:30:25-04:00Bountiful Harvest? Collection-building Opportunities With Open Access | Scholarly Communication Program
Bountiful Harvest? Collection-building Opportunities With Open Access
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<div><strong>October 23, 2012 at 11:00 am </strong></div>
<div><strong>Columbia University, Butler Library, Room 523 </strong></div>
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<p>How is open access changing the way libraries build their
collections? Has it caused greater shifts in opportunities in the
sciences or humanities? What are the most pressing challenges it
presents? Join us for a lively debate on how librarians can support open
access and use it to enrich the collections and services they offer.</p>
<div>Panelists:</div>
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<span><strong>Matthew Baker</strong></span>, <span>Collection Services Librarian, The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary</span>
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<span><strong>Pamela Graham</strong></span>,
Director of Global Studies and Director, Center for Human Rights
Documentation & Research, Columbia University Libraries/Information
Services</div>
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<span><strong>Megan Wacha</strong></span>, <span>Research and Instruction Librarian for Media and the Performing Arts, Barnard College</span>
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<p>This event is free and open to the public, and is part of Open Access Week 2012 at Columbia University.</p>
</div>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/506652012-10-16T22:22:29-04:002012-10-17T13:42:16-04:00Joshua DrewOpen Access Publishing Accelerates the Pace of Conservation Biology | SpotOn"I believe the rise in open access publishing has forced us in the
academic community to ask ourselves very hard questions about the nature
of how information is produced and consumed. I think that these
questions are fundamentally important, regardless of how they are
ultimately resolved. This critical look at publishing will generate
debates among several players: scientists, publishing companies and
various information consumers. I will leave those larger debates to my
fellow blog writers, I instead want to use this space to write about a
very specific aspect of open access publishing – broadly about how open
access publishing can help combat neocolonial distributions in
information production and more specifically, how open access can help
conservation in developing countries..."