For immediate release:
February 18, 2008
For more information, contact:
Karla Hahn
Association of Research Libraries
202-296-2296
karla@arl.org
Register Now For ARL-NASULGC Webcast on NIH Public Access Policy, March 7, 2008
Deadline March 3, 2008
Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) are offering a webcast on “Institutional Compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy: Ensuring Deposit Rights.”
The webcast will explore options for institutional responses to the new Public Access Policy adopted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Effective April 7, 2008, the new policy requires investigators to deposit their articles stemming from NIH funding in PubMed Central. Institutions confront a key set of issues raised by the need to ensure that authors maintain the legal rights required to allow compliance with the new policy.
Date and Time
Friday, March 7, 2008
1:00-2:00 p.m. eastern standard time
Audience
Vice presidents of research, administrators and staff in funded research and grants office, campus compliance officers, and others who will be responsible for fulfilling their organizations’ compliance obligations as NIH grantees.
Presenters
Jim Siedow
Vice Provost for Research
Duke University
Kevin L. Smith, JD
Scholarly Communications Officer
Duke University
Tony Waldrop
Vice Chancellor for Research & Economic Development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Registration
The webcast is free, but advance registration is required. The webcast will be appropriate for either group presentation or individual viewing. Register online by March 3 at http://www.visualwebcaster.com/event.asp?id=46166.
For More Information
See the webcast homepage at http://www.arl.org/sc/implement/nih/webcast/.
ARL also maintains a guide for research institutions on the new NIH Public Access Policy http://www.arl.org/sc/implement/nih/guide/.
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 123 research libraries in North America. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is located on the Web at http://www.arl.org/.
Founded in 1887, the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC, A Public University Association), is an association of public research universities, land-grant institutions, and many state public university systems. Its 217 members enroll more than 3.6 million students, award approximately a half-million degrees annually, and have an estimated 20 million alumni. As the nation’s oldest higher education association, NASULGC is dedicated to excellence in learning, discovery, and engagement. For more information, visit http://www.nasulgc.org/.
