Registration is now 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 centralised 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 organisations 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.
This event was designed specifically to draw a wide variety of people. Each of the panelists has unique experience and expertise related to the planned discussion.
Courtney works closely with faculty at Harvard, where he speaks and writes on issues of copyright and fair use in higher education. As the Scholarly Communications Librarian at MIT, Dunn provides support for administration of the faculty open access policy. Boissy, who works at Springer, has a particular interest in developing and sustaining relationships between libraries, publishers, and vendors.
Small scale SSP regional events made their debut in Boston last spring and have thus far offered lecture and networking events. This will be the first panel discussion.
Interested parties may visit event's page on the SSP website for more information about the event and to register. Future SSP regional events are planned, including an April 25 event in Durham, North Carolina.
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