Dear Colleagues,
The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship is holding an event as part of its Research Without Borders Series (see below). I hope you’ll join me there!
Very best,
Megan
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Please join Columbia University Libraries’ Scholarly Communication Program for the next event in our Research Without Borders panel discussion series, “Effecting Change in Scholarly Communication: Opportunities and Costs.” This event will take place from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. on Monday, November 21, 2016 in the Garden Room 2 of Columbia’s Faculty House. It is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend, please register for the event using the “Reserve Your Seat” button on the Columbia Events page, available here.
The event presents a panel of stakeholders and observers across the scholarly enterprise who have worked to understand and effect purposeful change in the ways scholars and researchers communicate with each other. Their work seeks to better assess the costs of change and the motivations and challenges facing forward momentum across disciplinary domains, institutional initiatives, and publication practices.
Our panelists:
MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian, University of California-Davis Libraries. MacKenzie will be speaking on the Pay-It-Forward report: an investigation into a sustainable model of open access article processing charges for large North American research institutions.
Kevin Hawkins, Assistant Dean for Scholarly Communication, University of North Texas Libraries. Kevin will be discussing Project Meerkat, a project aimed “to develop guidelines and standards for digital scholarly monograph usage data and to construct a neutral organizational apparatus for the ongoing collection and aggregation of data about these scholarly publications,” and the resulting cooperative to be developed out of that project, the Publishing Analytics Data Alliance.
Peter Muennig, Associate Professor, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Peter will be speaking about the ourJournal open source journal publishing initiative.
This event is part of our speaker series Research Without Borders: The Changing World of Scholarly Communication. It is sponsored by Columbia University Libraries’ Scholarly Communication Program. 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.
