Baruch College
151 East 25th Street, 7th Floor
New York, New York 10010
8:15-9:00 AM - Continental Breakfast — Room 760
9:00-9:30 AM - Introductory Remarks
Kenneth Schlesinger- President, LACUNY
Arthur Downing — Chief Librarian, Assistant Vice President for Information Technology, and
Professor, William and Anita Newman Library, Baruch College
Scott White, LACUNY Institute Co-Chair
Beth Evans, LACUNY Institute Co-Chair
9:30-10:15 AM - Keynote Address — Conference Room, Room 750
Dr. Harold Varmus,
President and Chief Executive Officer, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Co-Founder, Public Library of Science (PloS)
10:15-11:00 AM - Keynote Address — Conference Room, Room 750
Dr. Martin Blume,
Editor-in-Chief, American Physical Society (APS)
11:00-11:15 AM — Break
11:15 AM-12:15 PM - Panel Discussion — Conference Room, Room 750
Moderator: Theresa McManus, Chief Librarian, Bronx Community College
Panelists:
Curtis Kendrick, CUNY University Librarian
John Townsend, New York State Higher Education Initiative (NYSHEI) Executive Director
Kate Wittenberg, Director, Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC)
12:15-1:45 PM - Lunch on your own (Citysearch's guide to restuarants near Baruch)
1:15-1:45 PM - Vendor Demonstrations (Click here for the schedule
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2:00-3:00 PM - Breakout Session #1
Scholarly Publishing & Open Access within CUNY: One Faculty Looks at Changing the Paradigm
Dr. Philip Pecorino, Queensborough Community College
The author reports on what brought him as a CUNY faculty member to the position that he holds on Open Access as a new paradigm for scholarly publication and dissemination of information, knowledge and creations. [MORE]
The Research Impact of Open Access Articles
Kristin Antelman, North Carolina State University Libraries
This session will discuss the question of increased research impact for open access. We will also try to get beyond measuring that increased impact to look at some of the reasons why open access articles might have a greater research impact and how traditional disciplinary practices are affecting author behavior. [MORE]
How the Success of Open Access Publishing Can Stimulate Improved Access to Grey Literature
Marcus Banks, New York University School of Medicine
This paper will demonstrate that the emerging success of open access publishing provides a model for improved access to grey literature. It will describe pioneering efforts to provide access to grey literature, and recommend ways to build upon these initiatives. Finally, it will argue that the evolution of electronic scholarship will eventually collapse the distinction between grey and non-grey literature. [MORE]
Designing for the Discipline: Open Libraries and Scholarly Communication
Thomas Krichel, Long Island University
The presenter will illustrate the work of RePEc. This is a large distributed academic digital library for the economics community. He is the creator and principal architect of the system. He will illustrate the vision and thinking behind the system, as well as some practical behind-the-scenes insight. [MORE]
3:15-4:15 PM - Breakout Session # 2
The Dilemma of Access: Describing Open Access Journals with MARC and [Other] Metadata Schemes
Monica Berger, NYC College of Technology, CUNY
Gloria Rohmann, New York University
The presenters will offer a brief overview of the standards and schemes that are currently in use to describe, identify and interlink ejournals at various levels including Open URLs, DOI and metadata schemes including new ones that harmonize with MARC such as MARCXML, METS and MODS. They will take a look at some of the efforts to harvest open access content such as OAIster. [MORE]
Going in Reverse to Go Forward
Stewart Bodner, Helen Bernstein Chief Librarian for Periodicals and Journals & Associate Chief of the General Research Division
The session will outline the guiding philosophical principles behind the development of a repository as well as describe the unique materials that libraries should retain to meet the research needs of future generations. [MORE]
Digital Archiving: A FEDORA-based Infrastructure to Preserve Electronic Journal Articles
Ronald Jantz, Rutgers University
This paper will describe the basic architecture and infrastructure that the designers are developing and which is based on FEDORA (Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture). The paper will further describe how they are building on FEDORA to provide a digital archiving capability for all types of resources. [MORE]
Evaluating Means for Opportunities in Open Access Publishing at a Mid-Sized Private University.
Edward Keane, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
The presenter documents which means are successful and which aren't in educating library faculty and other departments about the benefits of, and reasons for, open access publishing. [MORE]