From: "Pasewaldt, Jessica" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:50:39 +0000

Please join the ALCTS Access to Continuing Resources Interest Group
for our program at ALA Annual in Anaheim:

Opening Access for a New Era of Scholarly Publishing

Access to Continuing Resources Interest Group
Sunday, June 24, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
HYATT-Grand Ballroom B

Scholarly communication is going through enormous transformation due
to the strong foothold of open access publishing and the desire of
authors to retain more control over their copyrights and their works.
Open access (OA) policies are becoming more widespread amongst
academic and research institutions, enabling authors to deposit their
articles in an open access repository. The University of Kansas (KU)
was the first U.S. public university to adopt an OA policy for
scholarly articles, and KU led the formation of the Coalition of Open
Access Policy Institutions (COAPI).  The Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy (SEP) was founded by scholars over fifteen years ago as an
open access, continually-updated, authoritative online encyclopedia
funded through grants and institutional members. And, responding to
the demand for more open access options, many publishers have expanded
their open access journal offerings.  SAGE Open is one such journal,
representing a broad-based open-access option for the social &
behavioral sciences and the humanities.

Speakers:

Ada Emmett, Scholarly Communications Program Head, University of
Kansas Libraries, will speak about KU’s open access policy;

Julie Bobay, Associate Dean for Collection Development & Scholarly
Communication at Indiana University will speak about the publishing
model of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; and

Jim Gilden, Editor of SAGE Open, will talk about this new open access journal.

For more information please contact group chair Anneliese Taylor,
([log in to unmask]), or vice-chair Kristi Ward
([log in to unmask]).