Symposium: "Transforming Scholarly Communication Symposium-2006"

Symposium: "Transforming Scholarly Communication Symposium"

QuickTime Videos and PowerPoints from the Transforming Scholarly Communication Symposium.

1. Ray English, Director of Libraries at Oberlin College and Chair of the SPARC Steering Committee, kicked things off with a talk on

"The Crisis in Scholarly Communication"

PowerPoint: http://info.lib.uh.edu/scomm/english.ppt

QuickTime Video:

http://mediaweb.uh.edu/nonacademic/lib_symposium_2006/lib01_english_20061004.qtl

and

"Sites and Cites for the Struggle: A Selective Scholarly Communication Bibliography":

--http://info.lib.uh.edu/scomm/englishhandout.pdf

2. Corynne McSherry, Staff Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and author of Who Owns Academic Work?: Battling for Control of Intellectual Property, spoke on

"Copyright in Cyberspace: Defending Fair Use"

PowerPoint: http://info.lib.uh.edu/scomm/mcsherry.ppt

QuickTime Video:

http://mediaweb.uh.edu/nonacademic/lib_symposium_2006/lib01_mcsherry_20061004.qtl

3. Peter Suber, Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, Senior Researcher at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), and the Open Access Project Director at Public Knowledge, discussed

"What Is Open Access?"

PowerPoint :http://info.lib.uh.edu/scomm/suber.ppt

QuickTime :

Video:http://mediaweb.uh.edu/nonacademic/lib_symposium_2006/lib01_suber_20061004.qtl