The first international Open Access Week, meant to raise awareness of issues and benefits surrounding open access, begins today.
The UCLA Library is sponsoring a week of events for faculty, students, administrators, and librarians.
The University of California and the California Digital Library sent an open letter to many of the information providers they license content from, informing them of the need to work collaboratively with the UCs to create solutions to keep costs low given the state of California’s economy.
UCLA professor Johanna Drucker, in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article, remarks that humanities and social science scholars must become more active participants in their future digital environments. Drucker calls this work “an intellectual responsibility, not a technical task.”
Often considered to be the realm of librarians and technologists, digital tools that do not help scholars engage in research are not used. Drucker points to the critical need for scholars, including those in the humanities, to work with these partners to create useful digital tools for the types of scholarship they do. She believes scholars must take their role seriously and administrators must see the value of this work.
A joint UCLA Library / ASUCLA Academic Publishing / USAC project is lowering the prices students pay for course readers. In early 2008 the Library began working with ASUCLA to analyze content faculty members use in course readers to identify materials it already owns or licenses, which do not require payment of an additional permissions fee for UCLA student academic use. A pilot assessment project reduced the price of each reader analyzed, by as little as twelve cents to as much as $30.18. As a result, ASUCLA has now made checking journal articles in course readers against Library subscriptions a routine part of its workflow, which is producing ongoing savings for students.
UCLA will be hosting the annual Electronic Resources and Libraries conference February 9-12. More than three hundred information professionals from universities and libraries in forty-four countries will attend presentations, discussions, and workshops focusing on ideas, trends, and technologies in this rapidly evolving area.
The University of California and UCLA both submitted comments supporting the NIH Public Access Policy, detailing the campuses’ efforts, and suggesting improvements to the process.
The UCLA letter, signed by Vice Chancellor for Research Roberto Peccei, Vice Provost of Intellectual Property and Industrial Relations and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Kathryn Atchison, and University Librarian Gary E. Strong, described their collaborative efforts “targeted at faculty, librarians, and staff aimed to inform, educate, and assist researchers and to support the broadest possible dissemination of their work.” In addition, the letter explains, “the Library has taken the lead in providing individual assistance to authors who have questions about the submission process.”
In addition, UC Provost and Executive Vice President Wyatt Hume submitted a letter on behalf of the university detailing UC-wide efforts.
If you have general questions about the policy or how you can ensure you are compliant, email the Library for assistance at nih@library.ucla.edu.
The UCLA IRB Policy 42 allows for registration of public use datasets and publicly available data depositories to eliminate the need for obtaining a Certification for Exemption of Review.
This means that any data available from the following pre-approved public use data sets can now be freely used with no paperwork or certifications required:
The ISSR Data Archive<http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/issr/da/> will assist in getting other public use data sets registered; please send your suggestions or requests for further information to Libbie Stephenson, Archivist (libbie@ucla.edu). Check out the IRB Policy 42 periodically as more data sets may soon be registered.
UCLA faculty members are invited to “‘What Are My Rights?’: Software, Patents, and Open Source” on Thursday, April 10, from noon to 1:30 p.m. Kat Fibiger, software creator and new member of the UCLA’s Office of Intellectual Property, will lead this lunch session and describe UC policy related to these areas.
Admission is free, and lunch will be provided. Advance registration is required by Monday, April 7.
Now available online - Information and resources from the February 7 faculty lunch session “‘Don’t I Own My Own Work?’: Negotiating to Keep Your Copyright” that alert faculty about their rights as authors and suggest strategies for retaining copyright during the publication process. An overview of UC policy on copyright ownership, examples of authors’ agreements, and strategies for negotiating them are outlined in a PowerPoint presentation. A handout in PDF format with URLs of useful Web sites is also available.
The session is part of the yearlong series “Intellectual Property in the Digital Age: The Rights Stuff for Teaching and Publishing.” The final session in the series, “‘What Are My Rights?’: Software, Patents, and Open Source,” will be on Thursday, April 10. For more information and to register online, go to the Faculty and the Collections Web site.
UCLA faculty members are invited to “‘Don’t I Own my Own Work?’: Negotiating to Keep Your Copyright” on Thursday, February 7, from noon to 1:30 p.m. This lunch session will offer suggestions on how to negotiate agreements with publishers in order to keep your rights to use and reuse your work as you wish. Admission is free, and lunch will be provided. Advance registration is required by Monday, February 4.
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