Events
Open Access Day: October 14, 2008
On Tuesday, October 14, we celebrated the first international Open Access Day. "There's Something for Everyone at Northeastern" highlighted various ways that Northeastern is participating in open access endeavors.--> View the main Powerpoint presentation (PDF format)
Speakers included:
- Geoffrey Davies and Elham Ghabbour, the editors of Annals of Environmental Science, an open access journal hosted at NU
- Joan Krizack, University Archivist and Head of Special Collections, who will discuss a grant-funded project to digitize photographs and make them freely available on the web
--> Visit the Freedom House Collection online - Paul Nguyen of the Internet Archive and Amy Lewontin, Collection Development Librarian, who have been working on a project with the Open Content Alliance to digitize books from the Snell Library and make them available on the web
- Debra Mandel, Head of the Digital Media Design Studio, who will talk about how the DMDS supports the use of public-domain materials and other services offered there
--> View Debra and Thomas's presentation (PDF format)
The event was cosponsored by the Library's Scholarly Communication Committee and the Digital Media Design Studio.
Photos and video of our event are coming soon. In the meantime, check out some of the videos created for international Open Access Day.
Spring 2008 Brown-Bag Series
Our spring series is now complete. Thank you to all who attended.Thursday, March 20, 12:00-1:00, 421 Snell Library
Robin Peek, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science at Simmons College and Open Access advocate, spoke on the open access movement in scholarly publishing.
Friday, March 28, 12:00-1:00, 421 Snell Library
Stacey Dogan, NU School of Law Faculty, spoke on intellectual property rights and faculty authors.
• View photos and video from this event
Tuesday, April 15, 12:00-1:00, 421 Snell Library
Stuart Shieber, Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, spoke about the recent Open Access mandate adopted by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard, which he sponsored.
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