News and Events
NIH Policy Presentations (3/2008)
Julie Schneider, Ebling Library's Assistant Director for Scholarly Communications, will hold information sessions (PowerPoint Presentation) about the NIH Public Access Policy:
- Tuesday, March 18 (noon – 1 pm), Health Sciences Learning Center, Lecture Hall 1335
- Wednesday, March 19 (noon – 1 pm), Microbial Sciences Building, Room 1420
- Thursday, March 20 (noon – 1 pm), Engineering Centers Building, Tong Auditorium, Room 1003
- Thursday, March 27 (8 – 9 am), Health Sciences Learning Center, Lecture Hall 1335
- Monday, March 31 (noon – 1 pm), Microbial Sciences Building, Room 1520
- Monday, April 7 (noon – 1 pm), Social Sciences Building, Room 8417
Learn more about the NIH Policy
New Video on Author's Rights (3/2008)
Watch this two-minute flash video entitled "Author's Rights" to learn more about managing your rights as an author. The video was released by SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, in cooperation with the Association of College and Research Libraries and the Association of Research Libraries. It gives a nice overview of the issues you may want to keep in mind when signing a publishing agreement when your article is accepted by a journal.
To retain more of your rights for future control of your intellectual property, the UW-Madison Faculty Senate has endorsed using this Addendum to Publication Agreements for CIC Authors.
NIH Issues Revised Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research (1/2008)
Notice Number NOT-OD-08-033: In accordance with Division G, Title II, Section 218 of PL 110-161 (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 ), the NIH voluntary Public Access Policy (NOT-OD-05-022) is now mandatory. The law states:
The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication: Provided, That the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law.
Faculty Senate Passes Author Rights Resolution (5/2007)
On May 7, 2007, the Faculty Senate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison unanimously approved a resolution in support of assisting university authors in managing their publishing rights and agreements.
The resolution supports the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Provosts' Statement on Publishing Agreements and encourages the use of the addendum to publication agreements for CIC authors to ensure that academic authors retain certain intellectual property rights that facilitate archiving, instructional use, and sharing with colleagues to advance discourse and discovery.
The resolution was developed and submitted to the Faculty Senate by the University Library Committee, a standing committee of the Faculty Senate. University librarians will take a leading role in these discussions and also encourage faculty members to become engaged.
Seed Money for Open Access Publishing established (8/2006)
The UW-Madison Libraries have can now provide seed money to support open-access publication fees and digital publishing by faculty and academic staff.
Libraries have been supporting alternative publishing models in partnership with UW faculty, staff, and students for the past several years. With the establishment of the Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing (SCP), UW-Madison librarians will begin publicizing the availability of funding support for open-access publishing as a part of their outreach and liaison activities.
Read more about the Open Access Fund
Journal of Insect Science comes to UW-Madison (11/2005)
After operating for five years under the aegis of the University of Arizona Library, the Journal of Insect Science became the first serial publication to be hosted by the UW-Madison’s Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing. Founded by editor-in-chief Dr. Henry Hagedorn, JIS is a professionally refereed journal of international scope on the “biology of insects and other arthropods.” Freely accessible online to academics and others, JIS is both managed and published using open source software designed to make the most of open access publishing options and minimize the drudgery of editorial management. A very welcome partner, JIS will serve as a model for UW scholars and researchers interested in posting the proceedings of their work in a global open access environment.
Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing launched! (8/2005)
The Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing (SCP) of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries was established in 2005 in response to a faculty senate resolution addressing the unsustainable financial demands of academic publishing, the desire by faculty to retain and better manage usage rights to their research output, the interest of the libraries to explore innovative, alternative publishing methods, and the rising national call to maximize access to and, therefore, the impact of publicly-sponsored research. Under the direction of the Library Services Council and the leadership of the program coordinators, Wayne Hayes and Julie Schneider, the SCP will work to identify and assess the research output of the UW campus, organize activities to archive locally created scholarly content in relevant local and national repositories, assist faculty in limiting the transfer of their copyrights by modifying publisher contracts, and influence scholarly publishing by advocating the creation of open access journals and locally produced digital publications.