Please join us for a faculty conversation about scholarly communication:

• Date: Monday, April 14
• Tiime: 2:00 - 3:00 pm
• Location: Seaborg Room, Faculty Club
  

In the last few weeks, scholarly communication issues at Berkeley and nationally have made headlines:

• The Vice Chancellor for Research and the University Librarian announce the Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) which provides subsidies for authors who wish to make their research publications freely available to the public. 
  
• President Bush signs into law appropriations bill (HR 2764) which includes a groundbreaking open access mandate that will provide public access to NIH-funded research findings.
• Harvard Arts and Sciences faculty vote unanimously to adopt an open access mandate for its faculty members? research publications.
• UC Berkeley hosts the SCOAP3 U.S. focal group meeting to explore how to dramatically reshape the funding and access models for peer-reviewed journals in high energy physics.

Join your colleagues for a conversation about what these recent headlines portend for the future of scholarly communication both here at Berkeley and within the University of California as a whole. Professors Mike Eisen (Molecular & Cell Biology), Nick Jewell (Public Health) and Randy Schekman (Molecular & Cell Biology) will share their thoughts. University Librarian Tom Leonard will moderate.

This event is co-sponsored by the Academic Senate Library Committee, The Library, the Librarian's Association of the University of California, Berkeley (LAUC-B) and the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE).