Celebrate Open Access Day, October 14th, 2008 with Duke libraries!

Open Access is a growing international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. It encourages the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, everywhere, for the advancement and enjoyment of science and society.

Duke Talks about Open Access
2:00 - 3:30 p.m., Perkins Library, Room 217

James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law, Chairman of the Board, Creative Commons.
Professor Boyle will focus on Creative Commons, an organization which is working to facilitate the free availability of art, scholarly and creative materials through online licenses that authors can attach to their work.

His talk will be followed by a panel of speakers from the Duke community who will share their perspectives and their activities within the Open Access arena.

• Melanie Dunshee, JD, AMLS, Assistant Dean for Library Services, Duke Law Library
• Ricardo Pietrobon, MD, PhD, MBA, Associate Vice Chair and Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery Duke University Health System
• Josh Sommer, fellow in Duke's Program on Global Health and Technology Access, co-founder Chordoma Foundation

Open Access Webcast
7:00 - 8:00 p.m., Perkins Link AND Medical Center Library (Room 104)

The Webcast features:

• Sir Richard Roberts, Nobel laureate, Chief Scientific Officer at New England Biolabs, US, and a member of the PLoS Biology Editorial Board.
• Philip E. Bourne, Ph.D. founding editor-in-chief of PLoS Computational Biology, Professor in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the UC San Diego, Assoc. Dir. of the RCSB Protein Data Bank, Senior Advisor to the San Diego Supercomputer Center, Adjunct Professor at the Burnham Institute, and Co-Founder of SciVee.

Both speakers will discuss how Open Access impacts research and will answer questions on this topic from participating campuses.

Throughout the day, the libraries will feature short video clips on open access, make handouts about author rights, access to research, and copyright available, and distribute OA Day buttons. If you are a supporter of Open Access you are also invited to join our Facebook page.

For more information about the speakers and other events, please contact
Kevin Smith, kevin.l.smith@duke.edu, 668-4451 or Pat Thibodeau, at patricia.thibodeau@duke.edu, 660-1150. Additional information about Open Access Day is available at http://guides.mclibrary.duke.edu/openaccess or http://www.openaccessday.org/.

DukeReads-Online Book Club

DukeReads is an online book club that provides alumni and friends a chance to discuss a range of books -- contemporary, classic, fiction, and nonfiction -- from the comfort of a computer. Seven titles, offered over seven months, are selected by Duke bibliophiles.

The summer book choice is "What is the What" by Dave Eggars. For more information on the book club, how to register, or how to order the books online from Gothic Bookstore with a discount, see: http://www.dukereads.com/

Happy reading!

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Saturday January 19, 2008 in Research Triangle Park
http://scienceblogging.com/

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