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Ivan Oransky talk, October 25: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: What Retractions Tell Us About Scientific Transparency

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: What Retractions Tell Us About Scientific Transparency
Ivan Oransky, MD, Executive Editor, Reuters Health, Adjunct Asst. Prof. NYU's Sci. Health & Environ. Reporting Program, Clinical Asst. Prof. of Medicine NYU School of Medicine, blogger at Retraction Watch
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 3:45 PM; reception at 3:15
Location: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, AT&T Auditorium

James Boyle will speak in 2012 for Humanities Lecture Series

James Boyle, the William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law, and co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School, will give 3 lectures at Washington University.

February 29, 2012, 5-6:30 pm: Cultural Agoraphobia:Why Most of What You Know About the Internet is Wrong. Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom, WU Law School

March 1, 2012, 5-6:30pm: The Internet Threat: //The Farmer’s Tale and Other Myths of Intellectual Property. Women’s Building, Formal Lounge

March 2, 2012, 5-6:30: Seven Ways to Ruin a Technological Revolution (And Why We Shouldn't). Women’s Building, Formal Lounge

Professor Boyle was on the original board of Creative Commons and a co-founder of Science Commons.

One recent book, The public domain : enclosing the commons of the mind (New Haven: Yale University Press, c2008), is available online for free under a Creative Commons license or in paper at the Law Library. James Boyle is also co-author of a comic-book style piece: Bound by law? : tales from the public domain.

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New page on open access at Washington University

A library guide on the Washington University faculty senate open access resolution and other related issues is now available: Open Access at Washington University.

WU faculty senate adopts open access resolution

The WU faculty senate adopted a resolution which encourages faculty members to make their scholarly and creative works freely available online.

• Article in WU Record
• Text of the resolution

Focus on Open Access

In honor of International Open Access Week, October 18-24, 2010, we have published a special open access "research guide" and will have a small exhibit in Olin Library, Oct. 11-24. See also Open Access at Scholarly Communications. Events and discussions are happening in many places. Also I recommend the Open Access Topics series at Scholarly Communications @ Duke.

Peer review summary

Peer Review in the Digital Age is a nice summary post about peer review, especially in the humanities, and how it is changing. It includes several links to other blogs and websites.

Free online course: Copyright for Librarians

"Copyright for Librarians" is an online, open access curriculum on copyright law, developed by The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University with eIFL.net (Electronic Information for Libraries). There are nine modules with materials designated at various levels depending on how deeply you want or need to explore a subject. Course materials prepared by the project are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Librarians and the public at large are encouraged to use, distribute, translate, modify, and build upon these materials.

Conversational openings to promote scholarly communication change

This recent article does a lovely job of reminding subject librarians about some of our opportunities to talk with faculty and students about publishing, open access, copyright, etc.: "Recognizing Opportunities: Conversational Openings to Promote Positive Scholarly Communication Change," by Adrian K. Ho and Daniel R. Lee in College & Research Libraries News, Feb., 2010. All the scenarios are not equally relevant at WU, since we don't have an active institutional repository to point to, but as we cut subscriptions and book budgets we certainly have the "opportunity" to talk about access barriers. I like the idea of finding something positive in our collection review efforts, which seem to be getting more and more painful.

A Window on Fair Use

This 9 minute video from MIT Tech TV and Ellen Finnie Duranceau (MIT Libraries) is an excellent introduction to the concept of Fair Use. Highly recommended.

A Window on Fair Use

OSTP requesting input on public access to publications from federally funded research

The Office of Science and Technology Policy has requested input on "enhancing public access to archived publications resulting from research funded by federal science and technology agencies" by 1/7/10. Additional comments will be accepted through 1/21/10.

• Archive for the ‘Public Access Policy’ Category - OSTP Blog, a place to read all the submitted comments
• CALL TO ACTION: Let the White House know you support public access to public funded research
• Obama administration potentially a strong voice in open access debate
• Obama's Open Government Plan Includes Open Access for Research Publications
• Public Access to Research
• One of the comments on implementation which I found interesting: U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy Forum on Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Implementation, by Heather Morrison

If you wish to participate in the conversation, you can email comments to publicaccess@ostp.gov or register and comment directly on the OSTP Blog.