Open-Access Week at UCLA, October 19-23, 2009
Open-Access Week focuses attention on the growing global movement toward open public online access to scholarly research results. This year, organizers expect that more than 120 academic and public libraries in more than thirty countries will host events for their constituencies.
All of UCLA’s events are free, and no reservations are required. For further information on open-access publishing options and activities at UCLA, go to http://guides.library.ucla.edu/openaccess.
CDL’s eScholarship for Librarians
Monday, October 19; 10-11 a.m.
Charles E. Young Research Library West Electronic Classroom
Elise Proulx, outreach and marketing coordinator for the eScholarship publishing program, will unveil the new eScholarship interface and services available to scholars and departments. Bonnie Tijerina, UCLA’s eScholarship liaison, will present several recent campus eScholarship projects.
Graduate Student Association Publications Panel on Open Access Journals
Monday, October 19; 1-3 p.m.
Kerckhoff Hall 131
This session will introduce student editors of GSA publications to the benefits of moving journals from print to online, inform them about open access, and showcase eScholarship services. Hosted by Stacey Meeker, GSA publications director, the panel will include Elise Proulx, outreach and marketing coordinator for CDL’s eScholarship publishing program; Bonnie Tijerina, UCLA’s eScholarship liaison; and Sarah Cary, graduate student editor of Carte Italiane.
How Can OA Change the Ways We Do Scholarship in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences?
Tuesday, October 20; 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Charles E. Young Research Library Presentation Room
This panel discussion will feature humanities, arts, and social science scholars whose work has led them to engage actively with open access issues. A key question will be: is open access simply an easier, less expensive way for scholars to publish their research, or does it effect fundamental changes in how scholars “do” scholarship?
Panelists will include:
Open-Access Week at UCLA
Moderator: Marta Brunner, PhD: Librarian for Digital Humanities, U.S./U.K. History and Literature in the Charles E. Young Research Library; Open Humanities Press steering group
Panelists:
Zoe Borovsky, PhD: CDH/ATS/IDRE-HASIS, Assistant Adjunct Professor of Scandinavian; project manager for UCLA’s Encyclopedia of Egyptology
Jacco Dieleman, PhD: Assistant Professor of Egyptology; co-editor of UCLA’s Encyclopedia of Egyptology
Diane Favro, PhD: Professor of Architecture and Urban Design; Director of the Experiential Technologies Center
Jan Reiff, PhD: Associate Professor of History; co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Chicago
Elizabeth Waraksa, PhD: Librarian for Middle Eastern Studies; copy editor and digital librarian for UCLA’s Encyclopedia of Egyptology
The Google Book Settlement: Issues and Options
Wednesday, October 21; 11 a.m.-noon
Charles E. Young Research Library Presentation Room
Jonathan Band helps shape laws governing intellectual property and the Internet through a combination of legislative and appellate advocacy. He has represented clients in the drafting of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, database protection legislation, the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, and other statutes relating to copyrights, privacy, spam, cybersecurity, and indecency. He complements this legislative advocacy by filing amicus briefs in significant cases related to these provisions, including representing the American Library Association and Association of Research Libraries with an amicus brief on the proposed settlement for the Google Book Project.
Band will give an informal talk on and answer questions about issues of concern to academic authors and libraries regarding the Google settlement.
Opening Access to Students
Thursday, October 22; 3-5 p.m.
GSEIS 111
UCLA campus groups are developing creative new ways for students to easily access essential course materials and publications and to publish and broadly disseminate quality undergraduate research. Showcasing some of these efforts, this panel will include Tereza Yerimyan, CALPIRG, on the Open Textbook Movement; Katalin Szeker-Somogyi, ASUCLA Academic Publishing, on a cooperative project with the Library to reduce the cost of course packs; and Shadi Lalezari, a student editor of Stimulus: The Undergraduate Journal or Neuroscience, on this newly created undergraduate journal.
Melnitz Movies Screening of RIP: A Remix Manifesto
Thursday, October 22; 7:30 p.m.
James Bridges Theatre, Melnitz Hall 1409
This documentary about the emerging remix culture and its conflict with current copyright law focuses on musical mash-up artist Girl Talk, while also spanning the history of copyright law and its transformation over the past century into its current form. The filmmakers champion the “Remix Manifesto,” derived from the writing of Lawrence Lessig — who also appears in the film — which calls for a new paradigm for how cultural materials can be reused, repurposed, and remixed. This provocative film captures the spirit of evolving art forms and challenges the law to catch up.
<submitted by Bonnie Tijerina>
