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October 09, 2008

University Libraries to host Open Access Day Broadcast

Binghamton University Libraries will host an informal broadcast from SPARC (Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition) on current issues in Open Access and trends in scholarly publishing on Tuesday, October 14, at 7 p.m., in SL-209. Speakers include Sir Richard Roberts, Ph.D., F.R.S., and Philip E. Bourne, Ph.D. — both of whom will discuss how Open Access impacts research and will answer questions on this topic.

Roberts is joint winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology of Medicine and one of 26 Nobel Prize Winners to sign the Open Letter to U.S. Congress in support of taxpayer access to publicly funded research. He is also the current Chief Scientific Officer at New England Biolabs

Bourne is the founding Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Computational Biology and the author of the popular PLoS Computational Biology “Ten Simple Rules” Series. He is also a professor in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San Diego and Associate Director of the RCSB Protein Data Bank.

For more information on Open Access Day, see http://openaccessday.org/

For more information please contact Elizabeth Brown, ebrown@binghamton.edu

Posted by ebrown at October 9, 2008 04:56 PM