From: Jennifer McLennan <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:32:26 -0500

For immediate release
January 31, 2011

For more information, contact:
Jennifer McLennan
(202) 296-2296 ext. 121

KU chancellor leads international slate of presenters for March SPARC
Open Access meeting

Washington, DC – Bernadette Gray-Little, chancellor of the first
public U.S. university to adopt a campus-wide open-access mandate,
will be the feature speaker in the opening ceremony of the SPARC Open
Access meeting this Spring. The meeting, which will showcase
thought-leaders, publishers, faculty, technologists, and librarians –
announced today – is expected to draw attention from policy makers on
campus, as well as at the federal and international levels. The event
is set for the Kansas City Intercontinental Hotel, March 12 & 13,
2012.

The SPARC Open Access meeting expands on the popular SPARC Digital
Repositories meetings, hosted biennially since 2004, and will provide
a North American-based complement to the popular “Innovations in
Scholarly Communication (OAI)” workshop held in Geneva, Switzerland in
alternating years. The SPARC meeting will be a regular forum for a
full discussion of Open Access as an emerging norm in research and
scholarship, and will emphasize “Collaborative strategies for
advancing scholarship,” for all stakeholders to help effect positive
change.

Presenters will examine recent developments and track key trends in
the growth of open-access practices and policies across four areas:
National and institutional policy adoption, digital repositories,
author rights, and open-access publishing. John Wilbanks, Fellow of
the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and recent Vice President of
Science at Creative Commons, will offer a keynote on the intersection
of open movements.  Other featured speakers include:

* Kevin Ashley, Director, Digital Curation Centre

* Michael Carroll, Director, Program on Information Justice and
Intellectual Property, American University

* Timothy S. Deliyannides, Director, Office of Scholarly Communication
and Publishing and Head, Information Technology, University of
Pittsburgh Libraries

* Ellen Finnie Duranceau, Program Manager, Scholarly Publishing and
Licensing, MIT Libraries

* Charles Eckman, University Librarian and Dean of Library Services,
Simon Fraser University

* Peter Murray-Rust, Reader in Molecular Informatics, University of Cambridge

* James Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University
Librarian, Columbia University

* Stuart Shieber, Director, Office for Scholarly Communication,
Harvard University

* Thornton Staples, Director, Office of Research Information Services,
Smithsonian Institution

* Caroline Sutton, Publisher, Co-Action Publishing and President,
OASPA, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association

·* Neil Thakur, Special Assistant to the Director for Extramural
Research, National Institutes of Health

·* Tyler Walters, Dean, University Libraries, Virginia Tech

The full program and additional background on the speakers are
available on the meeting Web site.

The SPARC Open Access Meeting is generously supported by: @mire,
Microsoft Research, Symplectic, ePrints, Wiley Open Access,
Association of College and Research Libraries, Boston Library
Consortium, Co-action Publishing, Coalition of Open-access
Repositories, Copernicus Publications, Duraspace, Greater Western
Library Association, Longsight, and the Northeastern Research Library
Consortium. Information on sponsorship opportunities is available at
http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/oa12/oa12-sponsor.

Register now through
http://sparc.arl.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=94. On-site rates
apply March 5, 2012.

Hotel reservations are available for the conference rate of $139 per
night and must be made by February 17, 2012.

For more information, visit the meeting Web site at
http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/oa12.

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Jennifer McLennan
Conference Director
The SPARC Open Access Meeting
March 11 - 13, 2012
Kansas City
http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/oa12