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January 28, 2013

[SSJ: 7945] Interesting program on open access, the Internet and East Asian Studies to be held in conjunction with the AAS meetings

From: Kristina Troost, Ph.D.
Date: 2013/01/28

Please pardon any duplication.

I want to call your attention to this program, “Open Access and Discovery in the Academic Universe: Next Steps for East Asian Studies Research and Library Development” organized by the Council on East Asian Libraries and funded by the Luce Foundation. The agenda is pasted in below; for more information please contact Peter Zhou, President, Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL) and Director, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley, pzhou@library.berkeley.edu

Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California March 20, 2013 Manchester Ballroom A/B

10:30am-12:30PM Plenary: Open Access and Discovery in the Academic University: Next Steps for East Asian Studies Research and Library Development
Moderator: Peter X. Zhou, UC Berkeley & CEAL President

“Universal Access to All Knowledge”
Brewster Kahle, Founder of Internet Archive & Co-founder of Alexa Internet

“Open Access: Opportunities and Obstacles”
Pamela Samuelson, Richard M. Sherman '74 Distinguished Professor of Law and Information Management, UC Berkeley

“Special Collections in the Digital Age”
Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)


Discussants: Ellen Hammond, Yale University
Brian Vivier, University of Pennsylvania


2:00pm-3:30pm Plenary Session: Open Access in China, Japan, and Korea: Developments and Trends,
Moderator: Susan Xue, UC Berkeley

“Open access in China: Past, Present and Future”
Yingkuan Wang, Executive Editor-in-chief of International Journal of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Engineering

“Open Access in Japan: Idealism and Secularization”
Syun Tutiya, Professor, National Institution for Academic
Degrees and University Evaluation (NIAD-UE)

“Current Trends and Issues of Open Access Activities in Korea”
Heeyoon Choi, Senior Researcher, Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI)


3:40pm -5:10 pm Plenary III: The Evolutionary Case for Open Access
Moderator: Jidong Yang, University of Michigan

“The Evolutionary Case for Open Access”
Brian Schottlaender, University of California, San Diego

"Innovative Discovery of Unique Collections: The Case of the Makino Mamoru Collection at Columbia University"
Jim Cheng and Beth Katzoff, Columbia University

"They are Open, They are Free, and They are ... Somewhere- the Status of Institutional Repositories in Chinese Universities"
Shuyong Jiang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign & Jing Zhong, George Washington University

5:30pm -7:30 pm CEAL Reception
Manchester Ballroom C


Profiles of Keynote Speakers

Brewster Kahle is an American computer engineer, Internet entrepreneur, internet activist, advocate of universal access to knowledge, and digital librarian. He is a member of the Internet Hall of Fame, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and serves on the boards of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, the European Archive (now Internet memory) and the Television Archive. He is also a member of the advisory board of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program of the Library of Congress, and is a member of the National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure.

Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman '74 Distinguished Professor of Law and Information Management at the University of California, Berkeley with a joint appointment in the UC Berkeley School of Information and Boalt Hall, the School of Law. Her principal area of study is intellectual property law. She has written and spoken about the challenges that new information technologies are posing for public policy and traditional legal regimes. She is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Contributing Editor of Communications of the ACM, a past Fellow of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and Honorary Professor of the University of Amsterdam. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and of the Open Source Applications Foundation, as well as a member of the Advisory Board for the Electronic Privacy Information Center.


Clifford Lynch has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and Educause, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity. He is an adjunct professor at Berkeley’s School of Information, and is both a past president and recipient of the Award of Merit of the American Society for Information, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. 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.


Brian E. C. Schottlaender, The Audrey Geisel University Librarian at the University of California, San Diego since 1999, is one of the most prominent leaders in the academic library world. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the San Diego Supercomputer Center; the OCLC Board of Trustees; and the executive committee of the Hathi Trust. He is also an elected member of the Steering Committee of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition and of the governing Council of the American Library Association. Schottlaender was named the Melvil Dewey Medal winner by the American Library Association in recognition of “creative leadership of a high order.”

Kristina K Troost, PhD
Head, International and Area Studies
Japanese Studies Librarian
Perkins Library
Duke University
Email: kktroost[at]duke.edu

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