[nfais-l] NFAIS Webinar 4/18: Planning the Future of Public Access to Federally Funded Research

[Ken Berlack]

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NFAIS Webinar: Planning the Future of Public Access to Federally Funded Research

Date: Monday, April 18, 2016

Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm (EDT)

Location: Virtual

Registration: http://www.nfais.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=505387&orgId=nfais&recurringId=0

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What's Covered:

In February 2013, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), under Director John Holdren, directed federal agencies with more than $100 million in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make the published results of federally funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication (while also requiring researchers to better manage digital data resulting from federally funded scientific research).

With the subsequent introduction of the bipartisan Fair Access to Science and Technology Act (FASTR), which aims to codify into law the essence of the OSTP public access directive, the federal agencies falling within the directive's requirements have made significant progress in meeting the OSTP public access goals.

In addition, while the FASTR legislation continues to make its way through U.S. House and Senate committee action, it's an important moment to review how the various stakeholders have addressed the needs of researchers and government agencies - including what publishers have accomplished in making U.S. government funded scholarly research and data more publicly accessible.

In this NFAIS Webinar, three expert presenters - SPARC's Heather Joseph, CHORUS's Howard Ratner and the National Transportation Library's Amanda Wilson - will discuss:

  *   The origin and purposes of the OSTP public access directive and FASTR legislation
  *   The latest progress in regard to expanding public access to federally funded scholarly literature, research and data
  *   What the future holds for public access policy in the midst of the upcoming national elections
  *   How the public access initiative impacts non-profit and commercial scholarly publishers in the U.S. and internationally
  *   The continuing effort to index metadata critical for accessing federally funded research across the spectrum of scholarly publishing
Presenters (listed per presenter order):
Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC
Howard Ratner, Executive Director, CHOR Inc. and CHORUS
Amanda J. Wilson, CENDI Chair and Director, National Transportation Library, U.S. Department of Transportation

Who should attend this NFAIS Webinar: government officials, scholarly researchers, publishers, librarians, scholarly society and foundation staff, information services consultants

Join us for this NFAIS Webinar to get up-to-speed on the public access initiative with federal agencies in collaboration with the information services community.

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For individual registrations, the costs for this NFAIS Webinar are: $125 for NFAIS members; $150 for allied societies*; and $195 for non-members. Group rates for three or more attendees are also available.

*Allied Societies: LYRASIS, CENDI, ICSTI, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, the Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division of AAP, the Association of American University Presses, NISO, and ASIS&T.

For federal employees, contact Elinda Deans (ehar at loc.gov<mailto:ehar at loc.gov>) regarding use of your FEDLINK training account to attend this NFAIS Webinar.

To register or learn more about this event, go to: http://www.nfais.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=505387&orgId=nfais&recurringId=0

*Allied Societies: LYRASIS, CENDI, ICSTI, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, the Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division of AAP, The Association of American University Presses, NISO, and ASIS&T.

REGISTER TODAY!!

CONTACT: For more information on this event or any of those shown below, please contact Nancy Blair-DeLeon, Director of Professional Development, 443-221-2980 ext. 102, or via email at nblairdeleon at nfais.org<mailto:nblairdeleon at nfais.org>.

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Ken Berlack
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