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EDUCAUSE Live! October 23, 2009 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT)

Throwing Open the Doors: Strategies and Implications for Open Access

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View Event Archives Tracy MitranoTracy Mitrano
Director of IT Policy
Cornell University

Tracy Mitrano is the director of IT policy and leads the University Computer Policy and Law Program in the Office of Information Technologies at Cornell University. Mitrano is also the Cornell director of the EDUCAUSE/Cornell Institute for Computer Policy and Law Program. A current member of the InCommon Steering Committee and the EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Security Task Force and co-chair of the Law and Policy Task Force, Mitrano served on the EDUCAUSE 2005 Program Committee and was and on the faculty in 2005 for the master’s of network economy at the Universita Cattolica in Piacenza, Italy. The University of Iowa named her the 2003 Ada Stoflet Lecturer. Mitrano has a doctorate in American history from Binghamton University and a law degree from Cornell Law School.

Heather JosephHeather Joseph
Executive Director
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Commission

Heather Joseph serves as the executive director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), a library-based organization that supports open access to the results of scholarly and scientific research through enabling open-access publishing and archiving channels, programs, and advocacy for local, national, and international open-access policies. Joseph is also the convener of the Alliance for Taxpayer Access, a coalition of libraries, universities, patient advocacy groups, consumer groups, and student organizations that works to ensure that results of publicly funded research are openly accessible to the public. She spent 15 years as a scientific journal publisher. While at the American Society for Cell Biology, she managed Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBC), the first journal to commit its full content to the NIH’s openly accessible PubMed Central repository.

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Tracy Mitrano and Heather Joseph, and the topic will be "Throwing Open the Doors: Strategies and Implications for Open Access."

In the past decade, the proliferation of Web 2.0 tools for sharing and creating knowledge, coupled with the creation of open-access journals, databases, and archives across the web, has begun to redefine the concept of “openness” in higher education. Advocates of the open-access campaign argue that free, virtual access to scholarly works and research advance scientific discovery and lead to faster knowledge dissemination and richer research collaborations, throwing open the doors that once restricted knowledge sharing and exploration. Critics of the movement have doubted its economic sustainability and raised concerns about its impact on peer review. Regardless, open access requires a new examination of campus copyright and publishing policy. Join us as we discuss the strategies and definitions behind open access and its implications for campus IT, librarians, administrators, and policy offices.

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