On Monday, April 18 the Library will broadcast a NFAIS webinar entitled “Planning the Future of Public Access to Federally Funded Research and Data” in Electronic Classroom 2 in Homer Babbidge Library. The webinar runs from 11-12:30.
The webinar description is as follows:
“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, four expert presenters - National Transportation Library's Amanda Wilson, SPARC's Heather Joseph, Wiley's Andrew Tein and CHORUS's Howard Ratner - 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 may hold for public access policy
• How the public access initiative impacts the 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 published materials
Who should attend this NFAIS Webinar: government officials, scholarly researchers, publishers, librarians, scholarly society and foundation staff, information services consultants
For more information, contact: Carolyn Mills at carolyn.mills@uconn.edu