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Open Access Week: Share, Watch, Celebrate, Learn.

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Aug 262010

Open Access Week 2010 at the University of Utah

October 18-22, 2010

Open Access Week, now in its second year at the University of Utah, is an opportunity for the campus and community to learn about the benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping make Open Access a new norm in scholarly and creative works. Open Access scholarship is digital, online and free of charge to readers and viewers. In many cases, it is free of most copyright and licensing restrictions, and can therefore be re-used in a variety of ways. It is a dissemination strategy that promotes rather than restricts access. Come share, watch, celebrate, and learn.

Free and Open to the Public.

Share.

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Open
John Wilbanks, Science Commons
Monday, October 18, 2 pm
Marriott Library, Room 1150
Webcast provided.

The Internet, according to John Wilbanks, has democratized creative culture. Science lags far behind. “The vast majority of science is actually a secret,” Wilbanks says. “It’s hidden in labs until it gets published, or it’s thrown in the autoclave if it’s not thought to be worth publishing, or it sits in a fridge because no one knows how to make it available. The fragments never come back together because too many different people have to give permission, and no one can put all the pieces together to ask interesting questions.” Wilbanks heads the four-year-old nonprofit Science Commons, an offshoot of Creative Commons. Like its parent, Science Commons is dedicated to creating an open web culture in which users — in this case scientists — can easily share their work.

Watch.

Open Access Film Festival

The Open Access Film Festival seeks to promote the idea of shared culture by bringing free-to-share films to the attention of local audiences. The event is organized by the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah. All screenings are free and open to the public.

Tuesday, October 19, 7 pm
Union Theater

In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.

Wednesday, October 20, 5 pm
Marriott Library, Gould Auditorium

Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is a feature-length sci-fi parody, seven years in the making. It is the product of a core group of five Finns, and over 300 extras, assistants and supporters. The film combines world-class visual effects, a rough-and-ready sense of humour, and a passion that provide the basis for the first-ever Finnish science fiction adventure.

Thursday, October 21, 4 pm
Marriott Library, Gould Auditorium

Babajaga – Witches in updraft is a film about women united by the all-consuming passion for flying without engine power. It’s about true friendship between sports-women, even across the frontiers of the cold war, and their tireless dedication to get their own Woman World Championship after 33 years of struggle.

Celebrate.

USpace Celebration!
Wednesday, October 20, 4 pm
Marriott Library, Gould Auditorium

USpace is celebrating five years of providing public access to University of Utah scholarship. Come learn more about USpace and celebrate with free cupcakes!

Learn.

Publishing SMART
Friday, October 22, 10 am
Marriott Library, Room 1009
(register here)

Authors want their scholarly articles to be seen, cited and utilized. This class provides opportunities for researchers to increase their visibility by exploring various publishing and archiving choices. Tools for evaluating journal impact factors, online usage, local online availability, retaining copyrights, and submission to online archives are covered.

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Article of the Day: Selections from USpace

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Mar 042010

CEO pay and the Lake Wobegon effect is my new favorite article in USpace. Rachel Hayes and Scott Schafer, both from the David Eccles School of Business, wrote the paper in 2007 as a way to explain recent CEO pay increases at U.S. firms. They take a game theory model and apply it to what many in the business press refer to as “The Lake Wobegon Effect.” And what’s the Lake Wobegon effect? Most boards want to make sure they look strong, or, at least above average (as are all the kids from Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon), so a CEO’s pay will increase at the same rate as a peer company’s even if the CEO performed poorly. For someone who is mystified by the business world, I find this to be comfortingly human. And their conclusion? Well, read for yourself http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/ir-main,7291 The paper is part of a series from the Institute of Public and International Affairs (IPIA). To see other papers from IPIA, go to http://bit.ly/bOOPAT

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Using Video Content for Teaching: Discussion and Webcast

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Feb 252010

Copyright, as it pertains to streaming video for teaching purposes, can be a tricky subject. One interesting development is the recent legal threat that prompted UCLA to stop allowing faculty to use copyrighted streaming video in their courses: http://chronicle.com/blogPost/UCLA-Pulls-Videos-From-Course/21013/

If you would like to learn more and join in on a discussion and webcast, please consider attending the following event:

Using Video Content for Teaching: Discussion and Webcast

Thursday, February 25, 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library

3:00-3:15 pm  Introduction and Brief Overview (Allyson Mower, Scholarly Communications & Copyright Librarian, Marriott Library)

3:15-4:00 pm  Open Discussion

4:00-5:30 pm  Open Video Alliance Webcast with

Lawrence Lessig, Professor, Harvard Law School http://openvideoalliance.org/event/lessig/

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Article of the Day: Selections from USpace

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Jan 042010

The annual Governor’s Medal for Science and Technology awards ceremony will take place tomorrow and one of the seven recipients is Randall J. Olson, MD, Director, John A. Moran Eye Center. The awards program recognizes people and companies in Utah whose career achievements or distinguished service have benefited the state in the areas of science and technology http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14111462. We have archived many of Dr. Olson’s research articles in USpace which you can view here http://tinyurl.com/y9uu55a

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Article of the Day: Selections from USpace

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Oct 052009

This year’s Siciliano Forum will focus on global aging–specifically healthy aging, an aging workforce, and shifting inter-generational relationships. I searched U Scholar Works on the subject of aging and found several results. The article “Why Generation(s) Matter(s) to Policy” by Susan McDaniel seemed relevant.

Professor McDaniel states that generation is “a unique kind of social location, premised on a dynamic interplay of birth time and the socio-political events occurring at crucial life course moments for [a] birth cohort. The importance of generation, in this view, is not the year of birth or the size of the birth cohort, but the social relevance of being born at a particular historical time in a given society.” She goes on to say that generation, as a concept, “opens policy to exploring who does what in relation to whom.” For example, looking at what kind of sacrifices one generation has made for another and what impact this would have on policy making. McDaniel indicates that this is an unusual approach to policy, yet is one that “provide[s] a sense of contribution and entitlement in [...] the expected transition into retirement at a particular or approximate age.”

For more information on the University of Utah’s Siciliano Forum, see http://www.csbs.utah.edu/siciliano_forum.html

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Article of the Day: Selections from USpace

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Sep 112009

I recently came across Prof. John Flynn’s article in USpace: the University of Utah’s Institutional Repository titled “Antitrust policy and health care reform” and thought it might be interesting to showcase given President Obama’s recent speech to Congress on the matter of health care reform. The article, written in 1994 and published in Antitrust Bulletin, “examines case law develop­ments [from 1984-1994] in applying antitrust policy to health care markets and suggests how antitrust policy…relates to legislative proposals for reform of health care markets” (pg. 6).

While Prof. Flynn wrote in the context of the Clinton administration’s health reform policy, antitrust concerns quickly arose in the early days of the Obama administration’s announcement of a new health care policy the details of which included reducing health care costs by means of hospitals, doctors, and insurance companies getting together to agree on strategies for holding down prices http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/health/policy/27health.html

Prof. Flynn argues that “[h]ealth care is an industry that has too long been immune from rigorous review on fundamental legal and economic grounds, a fact for which we are now paying a heavy price in both extensive litigation and a major legislative effort to restructure the entire industry” (pg. 73). The great challenge of health care reform, according to Prof. Flynn, is “[f]inding the right mix of market and regulatory remedies.” It is the kind of challenge “that may well take…decades to resolve in light of the complexities of the issues” (pg. 74).

You can find the full-text of Prof. Flynn’s article in USpace at http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/ir-main,26706

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Article of the Day: Selections from USpace

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Aug 052009

The mission of USpace, the University of Utah’s Institutional Repository is to collect, maintain, preserve, record, and provide access to the intellectual capital and output of the University of Utah, to reflect the University’s excellence, and to share that work with others. The University’s excellence emanates through a range of venues including its teaching, research and service. While research is sometimes thought of in terms of scientific laboratories, clinics, journal articles and books, it also occurs within studios devoted to art, music, and movement with outcomes such as paintings, sculptures and performances. One such example of this is De metal y madera: for flute, cello, percussion, and electronics. Written in 1999 by Professor Miguel Chuaqui, the musical score represents a culmination of his research interests which include “collaborations with colleagues in areas as diverse as Modern Dance (interactive dance systems) and the School of Medicine (interactive software development for therapeutic musical applications).” While reading the score in USpace, you can listen to a brief performance. This kind of research represents a growing area for USpace as we look toward fulfilling our goal of collecting, maintaining, preserving, recording and providing access to the intellectual capital of the University of Utah.

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Get Help with Your Copyright Questions

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Aug 032009

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Navigating copyright rules in the digital millennium and deciding what can be utilized in the classroom or on the Web can be overwhelming and time-consuming.

If you have questions regarding the use of copyrighted materials in your classroom (face-to-face or online), Marriott Library and the Technology Assisted Curriculum Center (TACC) are offering drop-in consultation hours. Starting August 3rd, Allyson Mower, Scholarly Communications & Copyright Librarian, will be available on Mondays, 10 am-11:30 am and Fridays, 11 am-12:30 pm in TACC for you to drop by if you need assistance in determining the ways in which copyright law, fair use provisions, and the TEACH Act interact with today’s teaching and learning, especially the use of Web 2.0 tools by both faculty members and students.

Allyson can be reached via email or telephone, 585-5458, if you would like to set up an appointment or discuss any questions during non-consultation hours. You can also consult Marriott Library’s copyright overview webpage for more information.

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Open Access Week: Expanding Reach and Increasing Impact

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Jul 162009

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Expanding Reach and Increasing Impact

Open Access Week, October 19-23, 2009, will provide students, staff, faculty and members of the public a chance to explore new ways of disseminating, accessing and re-using the results of scholarly and creative research. In the age of the Web, information is abundant and attention is scarce. The fewer the barriers, the greater the likelihood of gaining readers and citations as well as advancing knowledge. Open Access scholarship is digital, online and free of charge to readers. In many cases, it is free of most copyright and licensing restrictions, and can therefore be re-used in a variety of ways. It is a dissemination strategy that promotes rather than restricts access. Authors and creators can learn how to increase innovation by offering the path of least resistance to their work and gain the attention of readers, viewers and listeners. Administrators can learn ways for the University to raise its profile and impact both funding levels and community engagement. And all scholars can discover means for fostering new growth, advancing their discipline, and attracting new learners to their area of expertise.

Schedule of Events

Recordings available here (Unanticipated technical errors occurred on some of the recordings and, as such, are not listed.)

Monday, October 19

John Willinsky, Stanford School of Education and Public Knowledge ProjectOpenness and the Value of Learning: The Intellectual Property Argument

Keynote address by Dr. John Willinsky
11:00 am-12:00 pm, Marriott Library Gould Auditorium

John Willinsky is currently on the faculty of the Stanford School of Education where he teaches courses on knowledge systems, access to knowledge and scholarly communication. He directs the Public Knowledge Project which focuses on extending access to knowledge through online sources such as Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open Conference Systems and Open Monograph Press (OMP). Dr. Willinsky’s research centers on both analyzing and altering scholarly publishing practices to understand whether this body of knowledge might yet become more of a public resource for learning and deliberation. He is the author of Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED, Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire’s End, which won Outstanding Book Awards from the American Educational Research Association and History of Education Society , as well as the more recent titles, Technologies of Knowing, If Only We Knew: Increasing the Public Value of Social Science Research and The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship — the latter of which has won the 2006 Blackwell Scholarship Award and the Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award.

Workshop

Open Journal Systems and Open Monograph Press

presenter: John Willinsky
1:30-3:00 pm, Marriott Library Gould Auditorium

Panel Discussionesynapse

Using Open Journal Systems at the University Libraries

panel: Jeanne Le Ber, Nancy Lombardo, Valeri Craigle, Julie Quilter, Stephen Mossbarger, Peter Kraus
moderator: Anne Morrow, Digital Initiatives Librarian
3:30-4:30 pm, Marriott Library Gould Auditorium

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Article of the Day: Selections from USpace

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Jun 302009

“As goes General Motors, so goes the nation,” Lee Iacocca reportedly said. With GM’s bankruptcy headlining the news in recent days, Ken Jameson’s article in USpace called “Castle or the tipi: rationalization or irrationality in the American economy” seems timely (originally published in 1972 in the journal Review of Politics). Written in response to the American economy in the 1960s, the article discusses the tension between an economy based on the castle and one based on the tipi. Jameson concludes that the contradictions in these two economic approaches can lead to fundamental change. GM represents the castle metaphor Jameson uses: it’s multinational, expansive and has several lines and brands. Now owned 60% by the federal government, perhaps Jameson would say GM is moving more towards the tipi: fewer distinct products, smaller geographic area of business and fewer mergers and acquisitions. While we watch what happens with GM (and our nation’s economy as a whole), Jameson’s final analysis provides some perspective: “castle and tipi interrelate in a fashion which yields stability to a system which would otherwise be unstable.”

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