Multi-Purpose Librarian
Posted in Open Access on Mar 30th, 2009
As most of you already know, last week was Open Access Week at the University of Michigan Library. It was a great series of events, and I’m very happy with how it all came together. Audio recordings of some of the events will be available soon for those who are interested, and I’ll post links [...]
Posted in Open Access on Mar 4th, 2009
I have been working with an excellent team of librarians here at Michigan to plan a week of events related to open access and the future of scholarship. We’re calling it Open Access Week. Clever, no?
It’s less than three weeks away, and as the schedule has come together I’m struck by how timely these [...]
Posted in Open Access on Oct 3rd, 2008
One of the big questions that kept coming up about the NIH Public Access Policy was, “But how will they enforce it?”
The answer appears to be, “With gentle email reminders.”
A faculty member at the University of Michigan recently received this message (name and article titles removed to protect the grantee’s privacy):
Subject: Public Access Compliance
Dear Principal [...]
Posted in Open Access on Aug 11th, 2008
A couple of weeks ago Peter Suber pointed to some new “teaser cards” released by the Scholarly Communication & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) intended to promote Open Access among college students. The brightly colored cards are meant to be distributed wherever students hang out, “in library carrels, around the coffee shop, or around the department,” [...]
Posted in Open Access, Publishing on Jul 15th, 2008
The title about sums it up. The American Psychological Association’s policy for complying with the NIH Public Access policy is godawful.
Here are the details, from the Digital Koans blog:
The American Psychological Association’s “Document Deposit Policy and Procedures for APA Journals” outlines its policies and procedures regarding the requirements of the NIH Public Access Policy. [...]
Posted in Open Access on Jun 19th, 2008
I’ve uploaded another presentation to Slideshare, and given it its own page here:
Open Access for Subject Specialists
I gave this presentation to a meeting of subject specialist librarians at the University of Michigan, as a part of a larger forum that included a brief statement from University Librarian Paul Courant, and presentations from a number of [...]
