From: Katie Fortney <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 23:52:25 +0000
Hello all,
“The Right To Deposit – Uniform Guidance to Ensure Author Compliance and
Public Access” is a free webinar that will be held on *April 16th from
11:00-1:30 pm PDT (2:00-3:30 EDT)*. It will explore the deposit rights
environment authors will face under new, zero-embargo public access
policies from federal funders, and the role institutions can play in
supporting these rights. Authors and librarians at US higher education
institutions are encouraged to attend to learn more about the details of
these new policies and what their rights are; representatives and staff
from funding agencies are also invited to learn more about the rights
landscape from an author’s perspective.
This free webinar is organized by the University of California (UC) and
Authors Alliance and is co-sponsored by the Association of Southeastern
Research Libraries (*ASERL <https://www.aserl.org/>*), the *Ivy Plus
Libraries Confederation <https://ivpluslibraries.org/>*, and the Statewide
California Electronic Library Consortium (*SCELC <https://scelc.org/>*).
We hope you’ll join us! Please *register for this event in advance
<https://ucop.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlcOqrqTwjEtDjY8IZh-FYRLslumC2fCk4>*
using
your employer provided e-mail address so we understand who you are.
Event description
The *White House Office of Science and Technology Planning (OSTP) public
access guidance
<https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/08/25/ostp-issues-guidance-to-make-federally-funded-research-freely-available-without-delay/>*
(“the
Nelson memo”) requires immediate deposit of federally-funded articles into
an agency-designated repository for policy compliance. This requirement
applies regardless of whether an author chooses to publish open access on a
publisher’s website, or publishes under a subscription model.
Most academic authors own the copyright in their work. In addition, many
institutions make it easier for authors to see widespread dissemination and
reuse of their work through open access policies and repositories. Yet
during the publication process, authors encounter choices and contracts
that at best create confusion, and at worst attempt to divorce authors from
their rights and limit how their work can be distributed and used. At the
end of the process, many feel uncertain about what rights to share their
articles they have retained: a significant number will have lost benefits
they started out with, including clarity around their ability to comply
with federal policy and deposit their article in designated public
repositories.
This event intends to illuminate the potential failure points along the
author’s journey, and highlight the powerful role institutional and funder
policy can play in protecting authors, thereby improving the rates at which
authors deposit their works and comply with agency policies. Both
institutional open access policies and the federal purpose license
found in *existing
federal regulations
<https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-2/subtitle-A/chapter-II/part-200/subpart-D/subject-group-ECFR8feb98c2e3e5ad2/section-200.315>*
represent
tools to support the rights and responsibilities of authors. Rather than
rely on the individual actions of authors to protect their rights one
article at a time, policy can create an environment that broadly safeguards
author’s rights.
Speakers
- Günter Waibel, California Digital Library
- Dave Hansen, Authors Alliance
- Rich Schneider, UC San Francisco
- Katie Fortney, California Digital Library
- Katie Zimmerman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Brandon Butler, University of Virginia
- Sandra Enimil, Yale University
- Maurice York, Big Ten Academic Alliance
- additional speakers tbd
*A full event agenda is available on the **event website
<https://tinyurl.com/the-right-to-deposit>**.*
Best regards,
*Katie Fortney, J.D., M.L.I.S.*
*Copyright Policy & Education Officer*
*California Digital Library*
*UC Office of the President*
*[telecommuting from Santa Cruz]*
*Pronouns: she, her, hers*
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