Universities and the Ecology of Scholarly Publication: 25th Annual Nakata Lecture
April 26, 2005
Co-sponsored by the University Library Lectures and Forums Committee and the UIC Faculty Senate Library Sub-Committee
R. Michael Tanner, Provost, University of Illinois at Chicago addressed the distribution, pricing and control of information in scholarly publishing. Publishers costs have been reduced by new technologies (such as web publishing) while journal prices have continued to climb. Faculty supply the services of research, editing and peer-review for publishers; then universities are forced to buy back the information with restrictive licenses and limited periods of access, forfeiting fair use and authors' rights. However, the faculty are in a position to change this by exerting control over the process of scholarly communication in regards to conducting research, editing results, and peer-review while creating new distribution models and retaining their intellectual property rights.
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A panel discussion followed, featuring:
Daniel J. Bernstein, Associate Professor of Math, Statistics, and Computer Science
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Mark Mattaini, Associate Professor of Social Work
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Bradford Schwartz, Professor of Biochemistry and Regional Dean, College of Medicine, Urbana
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