"Research Without Borders: Open Access in the Americas", the final event of the academic year in the Research Without Borders panel discussion series will take place from 3pm -5pm on April 29, 2014 in Presidential Rooms 2 & 3 of Columbia's Faculty House. It is free and open to the public. No RSVP is required.
National-level policies around open access to research differ around the world, and the issues at stake around public accessibility to research demand an international perspective. In this panel event, the current landscape of open access policy development in the USA, Canada, and Latin America will be compared and contrasted. Panelists with views from across the Americas will explore and discuss the differing national perspectives around open access to research.
Panelists include Heather Joseph, Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), Michael Sinatra, Associate Professor of English at the Université de Montréal; and Dominique Babini, Open Access Program coordinator at CLACSO-Latin American Council on Social Sciences.
Pamela Graham, Director of Global Studies and the Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research at Columbia University, will be the moderator.
This event is the final event this academic year in the Columbia University's speaker series Research Without Borders: The Changing World of Scholarly Communication. It is co-sponsored by Columbia University Libraries/Information Services' Scholarly Communication Program and the Digital Humanities Center.
Those interested may join the discussion on Twitter at #rwob and @ScholarlyComm. To watch a live webcast of the event, and for more information about Research Without Borders, visit the Scholarly Communication Program website at scholcomm.columbia.edu.
