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Publication Decoding and Negotiating Publisher Contracts: Know What You're Signing Away When You Publish(2017-04-07) Wipperman, Sarah LYou wrote an article, and it was accepted to a journal. The publisher sends you a Copyright Transfer Agreement (CTA) or some other type of publishing agreement to sign, but what does that agreement actually say? What rights are you giving away, and what rights do you retain? Can you post your article to your website? Can you use it in the classroom? Can you send it to colleagues? This workshop will: look at a variety of CTAs across different disciplines give you tools to understand general journal policies on when and how you can post articles show you ways that you can negotiate with publishers to retain more rights to your work discuss ways that you can share your work, such as using our full service deposit to Penn's institutional repository, ScholarlyCommons, and posting to researcher profile sites like Academia.edu, ResearchGate, and SelectedWorksPublication Sharing Your Work Through Academic Social Media Sites and ScholarlyCommons(2017-03-16) Stuhr, Rebecca ARebecca Stuhr will be presenting on several of the major academic sharing sites, including Academia.edu and ResearchGate, and Penn's institutional repository, ScholarlyCommons. Participants will gain a familiarity with these sites and their audiences, understand how the sites differ from one another, and learn about the copyright/permissions service provided through the ScholarlyCommons office.Publication Sci-Hub and the Future of Publishing(2017-10-18) Himmelstein, DanielJoin us for tea, cookies and conversation with Daniel Himmelstein, postdoctoral fellow at Penn in Systems Pharmacology & Translational Therapeutics, who will be talking about his recent research on Sci-hub, a pirate site for published research, and how its ubiquity might change academic publishing. You can read his preprint, Sci-hub Provides Access to Nearly All Scholarly Literature, here: https://peerj.com/preprints/3100/. Research teas are an opportunity for informal conversation around ongoing research at Penn. Register: http://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/3476612?hs=aPublication Publishing for Early Career Authors with Penn Press Senior Humanities Editor Jerry Singerman(2017-02-23) Singerman, JerryAs a senior editor at the University of Pennsylvania Press, Jerry Singerman offers his seasoned perspective on how early career scholars can navigate the book publishing world. His talk includes tips on communicating with publishing firms and editors, writing book proposals, and transforming the dissertation into a scholarly monograph. Presented by the Penn Libraries and cosponsored by the Penn Humanities Forum.Publication Innovative and Open Publishing Models(2017-10-26) Damon, Cynthia; Porter, Dot; Trettien, WhitneyNew and innovative publishing models are developing thanks to online, open access publishing. This panel will feature Penn experts whose research revolves around issues of open access or who make their completed and ongoing projects openly accessible. They are each instrumental in the creation of and contributions to new and creative publishing platforms. Panelists are Cynthia Damon, Professor in the Department of Classical Studies, who has been at the center of the Society for Classical Studies' development of an online Latin Library, and has published on the Dickinson Classical Commentary platform, Dot Porter, Curator of Digital Research Services, who is responsible for OPENN, and Whitney Trettien, Assistant Professor in the Department of English, who researches the history of the book and other text technologies from print to digital. Register: http://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/3565165Publication Open Access Has Long Been an Intellectual Property of Learning and What You Can Do About It (Keynote by John Willinsky and Faculty Panel)(2016-10-24) Willinsky, JohnRather than regarding open access as a twenty-first century digital disruption (or distraction) within scholarly publishing, this talk will illustrate how this principle has long distinguished such publications from other sorts of activities and goods. By drawing on a few brief examples from this history, it will bring to the fore the longstanding rights and responsibilities — framed as the intellectual properties of learning — associated with scholarly pursuits. These properties, it will be shown, can help to guide scholarly publishing’s principal stakeholders — researchers, librarians, societies, publishes, funding agencies — in reviewing and navigating the current complexity of open access ventures and proposals with this shared goal of better realizing the promise of learning in the digital era.Publication Why (and What) We Need to Teach about Intellectual Property in High Schools and Colleges(2016-10-24) Willinsky, JohnVisiting scholar, John Willinsky, educator, activist, and Khosla Family Professor on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Education will lead this conversation on developing student understanding of intellectual property as a critical element in a liberal arts education. If you are interested in learning more or have your own ideas that you would like to share, please join us for this unique opportunity.Publication An Introduction to Intellectual Property With the Penn Center for Innovation(2016-12-01) Johnson, SarahWhat is intellectual property (IP) in the context of scholarly, multimodal publishing? Join us for this interactive discussion in which Sarah Johnson from the Penn Center of Innovation will share an overview of IP and raise important issues for authors to consider when creating and disseminating scholarly works beyond print publications such as videos, web sites, programs, data sets, and more.Publication Publishing and Scholarly Practice at Penn: Key Takeaways from the Penn Libraries’ Scholarly Communications and Research Infrastructure Project (SCRIP)(2018-10-23) Wipperman, Sarah; de la Cruz Gutierrez, Manuel; Ockerbloom, John Mark; Bennett, Hannah; Whitebloom, KennyOver the past 11 months, the Penn Libraries Scholarly Communications and Research Infrastructure Project (SCRIP) task force has been learning about the ways scholarship is created, disseminated, and reused - as we rethink the services and research infrastructure the Libraries provides. The Libraries distributed a survey that was taken by 450 people and conducted more than 30 in-depth interviews with Penn faculty, staff, and graduate students, asking how they create, share, and reuse scholarly works. Come learn about the key takeaways from this fascinating project.Publication Understanding and Securing Your Author Rights When You Publish(2016-11-10) Halpern, EricWhen you publish, you will be required to sign some sort of publishing agreement, but what does that agreement actually say? What rights are you giving away, and what rights do you retain? Can you post your article to your website? Can you use it in the classroom? Can you send it to colleagues? This workshop will feature Eric Halpern, Director of Penn Press, who will discuss the main clauses of a book publishing contract, and Sarah Wipperman, Scholarly Communication & Digital Repository Librarian, who will discuss journal agreements, retaining your rights, and ways you can share your work.