Recent local, national and international headlines* indicate the importance of open access in scholarly communication. The UC Berkeley Academic Senate Library Committee and the Library are co-sponsoring a discussion about what this means for UC Berkeley and the University of California System. Details of the discussion are:

Date: Monday, April 14

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Place: Men's Faculty Club, Seaborg Room

Participants: Prof. Mike Eisen, Molecular & Cell Biology; Prof. Nick Jewell, Public Health; Prof. Randy Schekman, Molecular & Cell Biology

Moderator: Thomas Leonard, University Librarian

*Recent headlines:

• Mandate to provide public access to NIH-funded research findings
• Berkeley Research Impact Initiative to provide subsidies for UC Berkeley authors to make their research publications freely available
• Harvard Arts and Sciences faculty vote to adopt an open access mandate
• SCOAP3 is an experiment led by CERN to change the way high-quality journals in high energy physics are published