The University of Northern Colorado Libraries, in association with the
University of Northern Colorado Graduate School, is bringing to campus
Kevin Smith, Scholarly Communications Officer at Duke University, to
talk about the rights of authors related to copyright in the digital
environment.

 

o   When - Tuesday, April 21, 1-2 p.m.

o   Where - Panorama Room in the University Center, University of
Northern Colorado

o   Title - Who will control faculty scholarship, or , will your book be
in Google?

o   Speaker   - 
Kevin Smith has been the Scholarly Communications Officer at Duke since
June, 2006.  He began his academic career with graduate work in theology
and literature at Yale and the University of Chicago, then obtained a
library degree from Kent State University in 1995.  He has worked as an
academic librarian in both liberal arts colleges and specialized
theological libraries.  He completed a law degree while serving as the
library director at Defiance College in Ohio, where he also taught
Constitutional law.  His legal studies were the culmination of a
long-standing interest in intellectual property issues and their
relationship to broader legal concerns in higher education.  As Duke's
first Scholarly Communications Officer, Kevin's principal role is to
teach and advise faculty, administration and students about copyright,
intellectual property licensing and scholarly publishing; he also serves
on the University's Intellectual Property Board and gives numerous
presentations for faculty and librarians both at Duke and around the
country.  His highly-regarded blog on scholarly communications issues is
found at http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/
<http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/>  

 

Author rights related to copyright are becoming especially important as
we move into the digital environment.  Faculty authors have
traditionally transferred the copyright of their journal articles to
publishers.  Now technology makes it possible for authors to make their
journal articles available in electronic format on their webpages and in
digital repositories.  With the development of the Alliance Digital
Repository, local repository initiatives, and the NIH mandate that
researchers funded by NIH deposit in PubMed Central their peer-reviewed
manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, it is particularly
important that  faculty and graduate students, among others, understand
their rights as authors and options for retaining at least some rights
to their work.

 

Please consider attending and share this information with your
colleagues.  Thank you.

 

Metered parking is available in the parking lot on the north side of the
University Center, or a $3.00 daily parking pass can be purchased from a
dispenser for parking on the north or south sides of the University
Center. Street parking around the University Center is free.

 

 

Joan Lamborn

Co-chair , University Libraries Scholarly Communication Committee

University of Northern Colorado