The University of North Carolina Scholarly Communications Working Group

Speaker: Jason Priem, doctoral student, UNC SILS Where: Davis Library, Rm 214 When: Wednesday, May 8th at NOON Topic: Altmetrics and the Decoupled Journal As the movement toward universal open access (OA) gathers momentum, the most salient OA questions are changing from “if” and even “when,” to “what will an OA world look like?” Is [...]

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Speaker: Ryan Shaw, Assistant Professor, SILS, UNC Where: Davis Library, Rm 214 When: Wednesday, April 10th at NOON Topic: Mining Oral Histories for Multiple Audiences Millions of dollars have been spent on digitizing oral histories, preserving records of otherwise undocumented lives and experiences. But a list of digital audio files and transcripts can seem impenetrable [...]

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Speaker: Pam Lach, Manager of UNC’s Digital Innovation Lab Where: Davis Library, Rm 214 When: Wednesday, March 13th at NOON Topic: Digital Humanities at Carolina: Programs & Possibilities Digital technologies are transforming the humanities in profound ways—from the very questions we can ask to the ways we communicate our interpretations to students, scholars, or a [...]

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Speakers: Jane Greenberg, SILS and Director of the Metadata Research Center; Emily Roscoe, SILS doctoral student; Tim Elfenbein, SILS master’s student/Duke Press; and Chelcie Rowell, Research Assistant, Metadata Research Center & DataONE Where: Davis Library, Rm 214 When: Wednesday, February 13th at 11:30am – note the different time! Open access and copyright issues can dominate [...]

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Speaker: Anne Gilliland, Scholarly Communications Officer, UNC Libraries Where: Davis Library, Rm 214 When: Wednesday, December 12th, 2012, noon Do you have questions about copyright and scholarly communications? Here is an excellent opportunity to hear from Anne Gilliland (Scholarly Communications Officer for the Libraries at UNC-Chapel Hill). She will provide an overview on current issues [...]

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Title: Conference Report: In re Books Speaker: Carol Hunter, UNC Associate University Librarian for Collections and Services Where: Davis Library, Rm 214 When: Wednesday, November 14th, 2012, noon Please join us in a lively discussion as Carol Hunter (UNC Associate University Librarian for Collections and Services) reports from the In re Books conference that she [...]

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Please join us as we celebrate Open Access Week at UNC! Find below a round-up of events on campus. Who Owns Your Work: Copyright and Access Wednesday, October 17, 10-11:30 a.m. – Pleasants Room of Wilson Library Dwayne Buttler, a lawyer who holds an endowed chair in intellectual property at the University of Louisville Libraries, [...]

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Title: Screen Rhetoric, Performance, and Alt-Scholarship Speaker: Dan Anderson, Professor and Associate Chair, English and Comparative Literature (UNC); Director, Studio for Instructional Technology and English Studies Where: Davis Library, Rm 214 When: Wednesday, October 10, 2012, noon Sparked by transformative digital changes, many scholars find themselves faced with exciting new opportunities for the production and [...]

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Title: Enhanced Ebooks and Other New Digital Formats from UNC Press Speaker: Tom Elrod, Digital Production Specialist, UNC Press Where: Davis Library, Rm 214 When: Wednesday, September 12, 2012, noon New platforms for digital research are evolving and forcing scholars, libraries, and publishers to re-imagine models for publication. Tom Elrod, Digital Production Specialist at UNC [...]

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Title: Digital Humanities as Public Goods: An Introduction to the Digital Innovation Lab Speaker: Pam Lach, PhD Where: *Davis Library, Rm 219 When: Wednesday, May 9, 2012, noon Digital technologies are transforming the nature of humanities research and scholarship. Digital humanities produce scholarship that is more accessible to more people than ever before, all the [...]

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