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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 "Paywall: The Business of Scholarship" Film Screening(2018-10-25) University of Pennsylvania LibrariesPaywall: The Business of Scholarship is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science, questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher Elsevier and looks at how that profit margin is often greater than some of the most profitable tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Google. Come view the film and join us for an optional discussion following.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 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 How to Share Your Scholarship and Reach a Global Audience Using ScholarlyCommons(2017-02-09) Whitebloom, KennyThis workshop will provide information for scholars, researchers, and early career faculty on how to share your work using ScholarlyCommons, Penn's open access institutional repository. Topics covered include publishing basics (eg., what is a postprint?), institutional repositories and open access, services provided to the Penn community by the ScholarlyCommons team, and more. Participants will leave this workshop with a clear understanding of what ScholarlyCommons is, how they can utilize it, and the ways in which they can ensure they're reaching the widest possible audience for their research.Publication Open Access in Order to Make a Midnight Movie(2017-10-19) Schneider, Martin R; Rusek, Marta; Taney, FrankPolitical Theater is the insightful and funny local podcast that explores connections between pop culture and real-world politics, and they're coming to Open Access Week for a LIVE EPISODE recording. Join your hosts, film critic Martin R. Schneider (Front Row Central) and political essayist Marta Rusek (WHYY Newsworks), for a lesson in the legal quirks and loopholes that have helped create some of the best "so bad it's good" works of cult cinema in history. We'll talk about how transformative fair use allowed the Mystery Science Theater franchise to survive, how Italian copyright laws let one cowboy movie spawn dozens of "sequels", and the bizarre IP battle over one of the worst films of all time - Manos, The Hands of Fate. Plus, an interview with Penn Law alum Frank Taney (Principal Attorney, Taney Legal) about IP law and the entertainment industry! This event is brought to you by the Penn Libraries and Penn IP Group (PIPG).Publication Open City Data and Civic-Mindedness(2017-10-24) Ford, Dan; Lu, Diana; Rodriguez, Akira Drake; Steif, KenState and city governments across the country are providing open access to data about municipal services and infrastructure, right down to parking violations and bike lane networks (for examples, see OpenDataPhilly). What are the ways in which open data has expanded the ability for cities and governments to offer new services (or improve on existing ones), understand and tackle problems, and communicate with citizens? What civic engagement opportunities does open data pose for our Penn community and Philadelphia at large? Join us for a conversation about city data developments in the area and what having access to open civic data means to you. This panel discussion is part of the Penn Libraries Open Access Week, an initiative to promote wider and better accessibility to information. Light refreshments will be provided. This event is open to the public; registration is required. Panelists: Dan Ford, Community Ambassador at Azavea; Diana Lu, Community Engagement Editor at PlanPhilly/WHYY; Akira Drake Rodriguez, Postdoctoral Fellow for Academic Diversity at PennDesign; Ken Steif, PennDesign Lecturer and MUSA Program Director. Register: http://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/3570236Publication 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 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=a