Join the Library on Thursday, October 23 during Open Access Week for a lecture on the evolving relationship between open access publishing and promotion and tenure at research universities.
The process of promotion and tenure is one of the strongest traditions of research universities, but today it is being challenged by a rapidly changing higher education environment and financial pressures. This includes dramatic changes in the publishing industry, leading to a discussion of how open access (OA) publishing may play a role in the future of faculty credentialing. Speaker Cliff Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), will address these topics in his lecture on the intersection of open access publishing and faculty promotion and tenure in a time of upheaval in both publishing and academia.
Cliff Lynch has worked in higher education for more than 30 years, and lectures and publishes extensively on issues related to information technology, access, digital libraries and information policy. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, where he is an adjunct professor at the School of Information. He is both a past president and recipient of the Award of Merit of the American Society for Information Science, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization.
In 2011 he was appointed co-chair of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI); he serves on numerous advisory boards and visiting committees. His work has been recognized by the American Library Association’s Lippincott Award, the EDUCAUSE Leadership Award in Public Policy and Practice, and the American Society for Engineering Education’s Homer Bernhardt Award.
All are welcome to attend the lecture, which will be held from 3:00 to 5:00 pm in the Murray Room on the fifth floor of Lauinger Library. Please RSVP on the Library’s website.