[Sigdl-l] NISO Two-Part March Webinar: The Infrastructure of Open Access

[Cynthia Hodgson]

NISO Two-Part March Webinar: The Infrastructure of Open Access

Part 1: Knowing What is Open
Date: March 5, 2014
Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Eastern time
Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/what_is_open/

 

Part 2: Toward a Functioning Business Ecosystem
Date: March 12, 2014
Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Eastern time
Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/ecosystem/

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NISO will be holding a two-part webinar on March 5 and 12 to discuss The
Infrastructure of Open Access. Open Access (OA) has become a widely accepted
and rapidly growing method of publishing scholarly content. As OA
distribution gains traction, a high priority for the community is
establishing and building the infrastructure needed to efficiently manage
this content. This infrastructure includes such elements as OA publication
charge management by third parties, fee structures and payments, visual and
machine-readable identification of OA availability and reuse rights, and
discovery layer functions.

Part 1 will discuss Knowing What is Open. In Part 2, speakers will explore
how we can move Toward a Functioning Business Ecosystem. You can register
for either or both parts. There is a 25% discount to registrants of both
parts.

ABOUT PART 1: KNOWING WHAT IS OPEN

When content is published by a strictly Open Access publisher or in a
completely open access online journal, knowing what is freely available to
read by the user can be fairly obvious. This is less clear for hybrid
titles, where open access is set at an article-by-article level. Even when a
journal is fully open access, mechanisms are necessary for conveying the OA
status of articles and their reuse rights to other systems, such as
discovery platforms. This webinar, Knowing What is Open, will  discuss just
what it means to say content is "open access," what the various flavors of
OA are, and how people and other systems can determine how open something is
and both discover and access such content. Issues around license rights, the
scale of openness, and the application of this data in discovery contexts
will also be covered.

Topics and speakers are:

*	Setting the Stage: How Open is Open Access? - Darlene Yaplee, Chief
Marketing Officer, PLOS
*	Untangling Open Access Issues in Scholarly Communication - Greg
Tananbaum, Consultant; NISO Open Access Metadata and Indicators Working
Group Co-Chair
*	The Lifecycle of Open Access Content - Susan Dunavan, Senior Product
Manager, SIPX, and Franny Lee, Co-Founder & VP Business Development, SIPX

 

ABOUT PART 2: TOWARD A FUNCTIONING BUSINESS ECOSYSTEM

As Open Access is rapidly growing, the need to improve the business models
and relationships to create a functional ecosystem becomes more critical.
The past economic models and workflows were established based on a
subscription model. OA revenue models are typically based on author
publication charges, creating a more complicated workflow, and it is
questionable whether the new OA business practices can sustain themselves at
the scale of expected article output. Invariably, third-party processers
will need to help manage the institutional relationships, the billing and
payment processing necessary, and likely other elements of the required
business ecosystem for Open Access.

The second part of NISO's two-part series on the Infrastructure of Open
Access will discuss how to create a Functioning Business Ecosystem. Speakers
will explore the infrastructure elements that some community members are
putting into place, discuss what is working and what isn't, and identify
problems that remain to be solved.

Topics and speakers are:

*	Copyright Clearance Center: Open Access & APC Management - Roy S.
Kaufman, Managing Director of New Ventures, Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)
*	The Sustainability of Open Access - Cameron Neylon, Advocacy
Director at the Public Library of Science (PLOS)
*	Open Access Business Models for Publicly-Funded Research - Frederick
Friend, Honorary Director Scholarly Communication, University College London

REGISTRATION

Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm
Eastern on March 5 for Part 1 and March 12 for Part 2 (the days of the
webinars). Discounts are available for NISO and NASIG members and students. 

NISO Library Standards Alliance (LSA) members receive one free connection as
part of membership and do not need to register. The LSA member webinar
contact will automatically receive the login information. Members are listed
here: www.niso.org/about/roster/#library_standards_alliance
<http://www.niso.org/about/roster/%23library_standards_alliance> . If you
would like to become an LSA member and receive the entire year's webinars as
part of membership, information on joining is listed here:
www.niso.org/about/join/alliance/. 

All webinar registrants and LSA webinar contacts receive access to the
recorded version for one year. You can register for either or both parts.
There is a 25% discount if registering for both. Visit the event webpages to
register and for more information: 
Part 1 webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/what_is_open/
Part 2 webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2014/webinars/ecosystem/

 

 

Cynthia Hodgson
Technical Editor / Consultant

National Information Standards Organization

chodgson at niso.org

301-654-2512

 

 

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