Scholarly Communications News

As online access to scholarly information continues to grow, traditional publishing methods, the meaning of copyright, and notions of ownership are being challenged. What are the advantages of faculty publishing in Open Access electronic journals? How does peer review impact Open Access publishing? How do these developments affect what students perceive as authentic, reliable scholarly information? Join in the discussion of these and other questions in the final session in the Web Fluency, Authority and Publishing in the 21st Century series sponsored by the Center for Teaching Excellence and the VCU Libraries.

Date: Friday, April 13, 2007
Time: 12 - 1:30 pm
Location: University Student Commons, Forum Room
To register: http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/training/it/search.asp and select CTE as sponsor

VCU Tech Transfer is hosting a seminar on Intellectual Property Strategy, "What is Right for You?," presented by John Calvert, administrator for the Inventor Assistance Program, United States Patent and Trademark Office, on Wednesday, Oct. 10, in Sanger Hall, Auditorium 2-020, from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Open to VCU faculty, postdocs, graduate students and staff. For more information, visit the VCU Office of Research.

VCU Libraries will host a webcast on Friday, Mar. 7 from 1-2 pm on the institutional issues involved with compliance with the new NIH Public Access Policy. This webcast will explore the legal aspects of author rights management within the context of the new policy that will be effective April 7, 2008. The policy will have many benefits for research institutions, including better documentation of publications resulting from funded research. However, institutions confront a key set of issues raised by the need to ensure that authors maintain the legal rights required to allow compliance with the new policy.

The intended audience for this webcast is vice presidents of research, administrators and staff in funded research and grants offices, campus compliance officers, and others who will be responsible for fulfilling their organizations' compliance obligations as NIH grantees. The webcast is sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and the National Association of State University and Land-Grant Colleges. For more information, visit the web site at http://www.arl.org/sc/implement/nih/webcast/

VCU Libraries will present the webcast on both campuses. No registration is necessary.
MCV Campus: Tompkins-McCaw Library, Rm. 2010
Monroe Park Campus: Cabell Library, Rm. 320
Contact Lynne Turman, 828-0638, luturman@vcu.edu, for special accommodations or additional information.