Adamick, Jessica

Charney, Madeleine

English

ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst

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Open Access Journal Publishing Brown Bag October 21, 12:00-1:00pm W.E.B. Du Bois Library, Room 1320 Learn about Open Access journals, hear from editors of ScholarWorks Open Access journals and from faculty who have published in Open Access journals. Amilcar Shabazz, Professor and chair of W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, Rex Wallace, Chair of the Classics Department, Stan Scarpati, Associate Professor, School of Education, and Jeff Blanchard, Professor of Microbiology, will speak. Open to the public. Refreshments served. Contact: Meghan Banach, Metadata Catalog Librarian, UMass Amherst Libraries, and Paulina Borrego, Science and Engineering Reference Services Librarian, UMass Amherst Libraries  Copyright Issues for Faculty October 21, 2:30-3:30pm A215 Lederle Graduate Research Center In this overview of copyright issues for instructors, we will discuss how you can protect the rights to your own works, share what you want to share, find copyright-free works, and properly use the  copyrighted works of others. Special attention will be given to getting permission to use copyrighted works and to applying the “Fair Use” tests when getting permission is not an option. Register for this workshop here: https://etna.oit.umass.edu/public/workshops Contact: Fred Zinn, Senior Designer – Instructional Technology, OIT, and Marilyn Billings, Scholarly Communication and Special Initiatives Librarian, UMass Amherst Libraries  Students for Free Culture Launching Party October 22, 4:00-5:00pm W.E.B. Du Bois Library Lower Level Lobby Open to the public. Refreshments served. Contact: David Mac Court, Reference Librarian, UMass Amherst Libraries, and Yuan Li, Digital Repository Resident Librarian, UMass Amherst Libraries    banner courtesy of  openaccessweek.org Open Access = free   Open Access = online   Open Access = full-text   Open Access = permanent   Open Access = peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly material Open Access Week  at UMass Amherst Advancing the Sharing of Knowledge  October 19-23, 2009 By exploring the role of the Open Access movement, we can further  advance public access to knowledge. Using Open Educational Resources  in the Classroom October 22, 10:00-11:00am W.E.B. Du Bois Library, Room 2601 What are Open Educational Resources and what is their value? Learn more about the Open Education movement and hear from instructors who have already made teaching resources freely available online. Jeff Kappen, Ph.D. Candidate in Organization Studies, Isenberg School of Management, will speak about using Flatworld in the classroom, and Michael Lavine, Professor of Statistics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, will discuss the Open Access book he authored. Open to the public. Refreshments served. Contact: Steven Folsom, Metadata Librarian, Image Collection Library, and Rebecca Reznik-Zellen, Science Librarian for the Center for  Hierarchical Manufacturing  Graduate Student Publishing Brown Bag October 22, 12:00-1:00pm Herter 601 This brownbag event will address the publishing interests of graduate students such as author rights and disseminating non-traditional scholarship. Jon Olsen, Assistant Professor of History, Chris Boulton, Ph.D. Candidate in Communication, and Kate Freedman, MLIS, Ph.D. Candidate in History, will speak. Open to the public. Refreshments served. Contact: Jessica Adamick, Ethics Clearinghouse Librarian, UMass Amherst Libraries  Finding Copyright-free Images,  Audio and Video October 23, 2:30-3:30pm A210 Lederle Graduate Research Center This hands-on workshop takes you on a tour of the web sites and online resources that provide a variety of media (text, images, audio, video, etc.) that can be used in educational materials without the typical restrictions of copyright. Some are public domain, while others are special resources available only for non-profit or educational use. Register for this workshop here: https://etna.oit.umass.edu/public/workshops Contact: Fred Zinn, Senior Designer – Instructional Technology, OIT Contact: Jessica Adamick, Ethics Clearinghouse Librarian, jadamick@library.umass.edu 

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