Registration Deadline Approaching for Fifth Webinar in ARL-ACRL ISC Series

Register by July 21, 2010

Registration for the fifth webinar in the ARL-ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication (ISC) series Strengthening Programs through Collaboration will close on Wednesday, July 21, 2010.

The webinar, “Transitioning from Subscriptions to Open Access: Article Processing Fees and Combined Licensing/Author’s Rights Approaches” is scheduled for July 27, 2010, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. (EDT), and will focus on approaches to providing economic support for open access, ranging from payment of article processing fees to combining licensing subscriptions with authors’ rights or other open-access approaches. This session will provide participants with an opportunity to learn from the experiences of leaders in the field.

The scheduled speakers include:

• Ivy Anderson, Director of Collection Development and Management, California Digital Library
• Barbara DeFelice, Director, Digital Resources Program, Dartmouth College
• Andrew Waller, Licensing & Negotiating Librarian, Library & Cultural Resources, University of Calgary

For more information on the webinar series, and to register for either the individual webinar or the entire series, please visit http://www.arl.org/sc/institute/iscwebseries/index.shtml.