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Event Schedule:

9:30am - 9:45am Welcome, Introduction to the Day’s Workshop Speaker: Marilyn Billings, Scholarly Communication and Special Initiatives Librarian, UMass Amherst

9:45am - 11:15am Panel Discussion: Author Rights, NIH Policy, Harvard Mandate, and Scholarly Communication Advocacy Panelists: Barbara DeFelice, Director, Digital Resources Program, Dartmouth College Carolyn Mills, Biology Liaison and Chair of the Scholarly Communication Team, UConn Brendan Rapple, Collection Services Librarian, O’Neill Library, Boston College

Faculty and staff at academic institutions are frequently surprised to learn that authors of scholarly works often give away some or all of their copyrights. After a quick review of those rights and the author amendments to publishing contracts that help authors retain some of those rights, the panel will share their expertise and experiences in developing education programs for faculty and staff at their institutions. They will discuss the implementation and implications of recent events such as the NIH Public Access Policy mandate and Harvard University faculty mandate. The panel will conclude by providing provocative discussion about our role in the future of direct deposits into digital repositories and success or failure of this initiative to date.

11:15am – 11:30am Break

11:30am – 12:30pm Digital Repositories Panel Panelists: Marilyn Billings, Scholarly Communication and Special Initiatives Librarian, UMass Amherst Mark Caprio, Digital Repository Program Manager, Boston College Ann Devenish, Publication Services, MBLWHOI Library

This section of the program will address the role of digital repositories in scholarly communication. Discussion will include selecting a repository platform, adoption strategies for faculty, format migration and archival responsibilities; Mark will offer the “soup to nuts” approach from outreach, to negotiation, to reformatting, ingest, delivery and finally preservation. Short demonstrations of repository software will be included in the presentations: Digital Commons instance ScholarWorks at UMass Amherst, DigiTool at Boston College, and DSpace at MBLWHOI.

12:30pm – 1:00pm Lunch – please bring your lunch back from Sebastian’s (located in Boston Public Library) or bring your own with you so we can be back in time for lunch keynote speaker.

1:00pm – 1:45pm Lunch keynote with Patrick Yott, Head of Digital Services, Brown University “Supporting Alternative Web Publication through the Digital Library: Progress at Brown”

1:45pm - 2:45pm Drafting Your Institutional Scholarly Communications Program Plan Facilitator: Barbara DeFelice, Director, Digital Resources Program, Dartmouth College

In this part of the day, we'll break into smaller groups and start drafting an institutional plan, working with facilitators on each major topic: a. Author rights b. Digital publishing c. Repositories

We will be using an outline for developing an institutional plan that you can take with you to continue to develop. In advance of April 22, participants are encouraged to review the Environmental Scan materials available at the ARL Scholarly Communications FAIR site at http://www.arl.org/sc/institute/instres.shtml for outlines and models for the Environmental Scan.

3:00pm - 3:30pm Highlights from previous session, Next Steps and Wrap Up Speaker: Carolyn Mills, Biology Liaison and Chair of the Scholarly Communication Team, University of Connecticut