The University of Kansas Libraries, Open Access Network, Allen Press and SPARC are jointly sponsoring an international symposium, 'Envisioning a World Beyond APCs/BPCs,' in Lawrence, Kan., on November 17-18. The symposium will consider current models available for achieving an expansive, inclusive and balanced worldwide open publishing ecosystem.
The symposium will provide a live-streamed session during which internationally respected scholars, publishers, university librarians and executives from foundations and organisations will address advanced questions and problems in the open access movement. Additional symposium meetings will explore the future of 'openness' in scholarly publishing, as well as responding to and furthering discussions from last December's Berlin 12 Open Access invitational conference, which focused on 'flipping' the current subscription model of scholarly publishing to one that provides free access to readers paid for by article-processing charges from authors or their institutions.
Kevin L. Smith, dean of KU Libraries, will moderate the live-streamed conversation on November 17 from 10 a.m.-12 noon CST. By streaming part of the symposium, the organisers hope to engage a broad international audience in a lively discussion. During the broadcast, panelists will describe their vision for an open access future. Panelists, local respondents and the global viewing audience will engage together in thought-provoking dialogue to address one of the most fundamental questions in the open access movement: To what extent can a global academic community create an open access publishing system that is without costs to readers or authors?
Participants from KU will include faculty members Marc L. Greenberg, director of the School of Language, Literatures, & Cultures and professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Town Peterson, distinguished professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Representing the libraries will be Kevin L. Smith, dean of Libraries; Ada Emmett, librarian and director of the Shulenburger Office of Scholarly Communication & Copyright; Brian Rosenblum, scholarly digital initiatives librarian; Josh Bolick, scholarly communication librarian; and Musa Olaka, associate librarian for African, global, and international studies.
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