Scholarly Publishing: Owning your work, sharing your work, and funder mandates

ABSTRACT
Scholarly publishing plays an important role in scientific research. Researchers need to be aware of their publishing options and how the decisions they make will affect their future. Allison Langham-Putrow will discuss open access, options for making work open, and funder mandates for public access to articles and data. Nancy Sims will cover a few copyright and technical issues around use and reuse of scholarship, including authors reusing their own previously published works, and generative text and image models like ChatGPT and StableDiffusion.

SPEAKERS

Allison Langham-Putrow is the Scholarly Communication Librarian and liaison to the Mechanical; Industrial and Systems; and Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering departments. She has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota. After working as a research analyst with the federal government, she changed careers and has been a librarian at the U for five and a half years. Much of her work focuses on how researchers share their work, with an emphasis on developing equitable paths to open access. 

Nancy Sims is the University of Minnesota Library’s subject specialist on copyright issues. An attorney and librarian, Nancy has been helping individuals and groups throughout the University community understand how copyright affects their work for about 13 years. At UMN and beyond, Nancy advocates for policies and practices that support sustainable scholarship, democratic information access, and wide public cultural participation.