[BOAI] Scholarly Communication Program Speaker Series Videos Now Available Online

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from the Columbia University Libraries.  --Peter Suber.]


Columbia University Libraries/Information Services NEWS

-For Immediate Release-
Contact: Diana A. Price
212-851-7338, <mailto:dp2065 at columbia.edu>dp2065 at columbia.edu

<http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/news/libraries/2009/2009-05-01.scholcomm.html>Scholarly 
Communication Program Speaker Series Videos Now Available Online

(NEW YORK, May 1, 2009) Complete video of Research without Borders, the 
'08-'09 speaker series on hot topics in scholarly communication, is now 
available at 
<http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/past-events>http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/past-events, 
the website of Columbia University's 
<http://scholcomm.columbia.edu>Scholarly Communication Program.

The inaugural year of Research without Borders featured speakers at the 
forefront of the open access movement as well as experts in scholarly 
publishing, information policy, and copyright law. Harvard Professor Stuart 
Shieber kicked off the series in the fall semester, 
<http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/content/harvard-open-access-initiatives>tracing 
the development of Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences' Open Access 
Policy. The second 
<http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/final-impact-what-factors-really-matter>panel, 
with Marian Hollingsworth from Thomson Reuters, Jevin West of 
Eigenfactor.org, and Johan Bollen of the MESUR project, debated the 
controversial Impact Factor, a metric of scholarly journals' prominence. 
Helen Tartar and Sanford Thatcher, leaders of Fordham and Penn State 
University Presses, respectively, joined Columbia Libraries' Ree DeDonato 
for the third 
<http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/future-book-can-endangered-monograph-survive>event, 
which focused on the future of scholarly monographs.

The spring semester opened with a 
<http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/open-science-good-research-good-researchers>discussion 
on the benefits of open science with Bora Zivkovic of the Public Library of 
Science, Jean-Claude Bradley of Drexel University, and Barry Canton of 
OpenWetWare and Ginkgo BioWorks. In March, UCLA's Christine Borgman, author 
of /Scholarship in the Digital Age/ (2007), 
<http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/scholarship-digital-age-information-infrastructure-and-i>spoke 
to a packed room on information infrastructure and policy. The final 
<http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/know-your-rights-who-really-owns-your-scholarly-works>event 
explored the implications of copyright trends for research, featuring 
SPARC's Heather Joseph, Michael Carroll of Washington Law School at 
American University, and Kenneth Crews of the Columbia University Copyright 
Advisory Office.

The Research Without Borders series will continue in the 2009-10 academic 
year with six new events on topics including scholarly blogging, open data, 
and open-access business models. Stay connected by following ScholarlyComm 
at <http://twitter.com/ScholarlyComm>http://twitter.com/ScholarlyComm, by 
joining the Scholarly Communication Program 
<http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=26968639503>Facebook group, and 
through the 
<http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/columbia.edu.1786272348>iTunesU 
page. For more information on the Program and the series, please email 
Kathryn Pope at <mailto:kp2002 at columbia.edu>kp2002 at columbia.edu, or visit 
<http://scholcomm.columbia.edu>http://scholcomm.columbia.edu.

The Scholarly Communication Program is an initiative of the Columbia 
University Libraries/Information Services' <http://cdrs.columbia.edu>Center 
for Digital Research and Scholarship. Established in April 2008 to 
encourage discussion about and innovative solutions to scholarly 
communication issues, the <http://scholcomm.columbia.edu>Program aims to 
support faculty members, librarians, staff, and students as they consider 
their options for creating, distributing, evaluating, reusing, and 
preserving new knowledge in a rapidly changing communications environment.

Columbia University Libraries/Information Services is one of the top five 
academic research library systems in North America. The collections include 
over 10 million volumes, over 100,000 journals and serials, as well as 
extensive electronic resources, manuscripts, rare books, microforms, maps, 
graphic and audio-visual materials. The services and collections are 
organized into 25 libraries and various academic technology centers. The 
Libraries employs more than 550 professional and support staff. The website 
of the Libraries at 
<http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb>www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb is the gateway to 
its services and resources.


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