Sign in at the registration table and enjoy a continental breakfast.

Location: Theater Lobby

The symposium will open with welcome remarks from Shafeek Fazal, Interim Dean of the Stony Brook University Libraries.

Location: Theater

A reflection on the past, present and future of the open education movement. OER and Open Pedagogy serve to advance goals of both economic and social equity in higher education. Because of their unique teaching and learning advantages, and opportunities for collaboration and student participation, we have many reasons to explore the various paths towards more open educational practices. This talk will include a sneak peek of themes emerging in a forthcoming edited anthology examining open pedagogy projects stemming from faculty/library collaborations in colleges and universities across the US. This discussion will offer steps towards finding productive partners and implementing small steps towards openness immediately.

Location: Theater

Fifteen minute coffee break.

Location: Theater Lobby

Kelee Pacion, Biology Librarian, Princeton University Library

Many of us use Wikipedia on at least a weekly basis, but have you heard of the WikiJournals? The goal of WikiJournals is to bring academia into the realm of Wikipedia editing. In this discussion, I will introduce the WikiJournal open access model and discuss the process of submission, peer review, publication, and marketing. This will include discussion of the logistics of working with an international group of science faculty and researchers from a librarian perspective.

Victoria Pilato, Digital Projects Librarian, Stony Brook University Libraries

Last year SBU Librarians, Clara Tran and Victoria Pilato, sent a survey out to authors at Stony Brook University to learn more about the author's thoughts and concerns regarding Article Processing Charges (APCs) associated with some open access publishing models. Victoria will present on some of these findings.

Sarah Weaver, Editor, Journal of Network Music and Arts (JONMA)

Journal of Network Music and Arts (JONMA) is a peer-reviewed open access digital research journal published by Stony Brook University. Network Music and Arts utilize the Internet and related technologies as an artistic medium for works created for this platform. JONMA publishes research by artists, technologists, educators, and related scholars. JONMA launched November 21, 2019. The creation of the journal and the impact on developments for the field will be discussed.

Location: Theater

Moderator: Jin Guo, Director of Collections and Resource Management, Stony Brook University Libraries

Elizabeth Nelson, Reference & Instruction Librarian, Penn State Lehigh Valley

I co-created and currently help to run The Affordable Course Content Faculty Fellowship. The ACCFF is an OER adoption project funded by a campus grant supporting innovative approaches to student success at Penn State Abington’s campus.

As a panelist, I can share more about how the ACCFF is structured, how we present and manage an OER-adoption initiative on the Abington campus, and how we work with other OER initiatives within the Penn State system. I can also discuss how we discovered and addressed unexpected concerns among our participating faculty around the ideas of copyright and of students’ perceptions of authority in the presentation of an OER text.

As a relatively new partner to the OER movement, I can also speak to the steps of getting a second OER initiative off the ground at Penn State Lehigh Valley, where we’re beginning with a grass-roots model to harness pre-existing motivation and direct it toward a shared goal.

Kristen Nyitray, Director, Special Collections and University Archives, Stony Brook University Libraries

Students are often required to include primary sources of information in assignments, but they are unsure of how to identify, access, interpret, and incorporate these compelling sources created at the time under study. “Using Primary Sources in Research” is an OER tutorial developed for students to introduce them to concepts and to equip them with strategies for the effective and ethical use of primary sources in research and creative projects. Kristen Nyitray will provide an overview of how she developed the standards-based tutorial with the aim to expand and improve student learning, writing, and critical thinking skills across the curriculum.

Mona Ramonetti, Head of Scholarly Communication, Stony Brook University Libraries

In 2017, as a component of the Excelsior program, SUNY introduced the Open Educational Resources (OER) initiative. Stony Brook University Libraries, along with support from the Office of the Provost immediately got to work to educate the campus about OER and the advantages they afforded students. This presentation addresses the various challenges and unlikely collaborations that resulted from attempting to implement and support the OER initiative on Stony Brook University's campus.

Georgia Westbrook, Open Educational Resources & Instruction Librarian, Touro College

I will be speaking about leading a young OER initiative as a new librarian and the accompanying opportunities and challenges.

Location: Theater

Moderator: Laurel Scheinfeld, Health Sciences Librarian, Stony Brook University Libraries

Lunch will be provided in the Wang Center.

Location: Zodiac Gallery

Since the University of California system published its Declaration of Principles to Transform Scholarly Communication and subsequently canceled its big deal with Elsevier, big deal journal negotiations have become a hot topic of conversation across the academic library profession. This talk will focus on how these high-profile negotiation efforts can intersect with the broader institutional open access goals that drive both library publishing programs and OA policy initiatives.

Mitchell will consider, in particular, whether there are shared principles that inform our efforts in these respective areas; to what extent our work in one area can support or reinforce our efforts in another; and how the university must reimagine its space within the scholarly communication landscape. 

Location: Theater

Paul Albert, Identity Services Product Manager, Weill Cornell Medicine & Sarbajit Dutta, Senior Software Developer, Weill Cornell Medicine

ReCiter: an enterprise open source author disambiguation system for academic institutions.

ReCiter is an open source system for centrally managing the scholarly publication output of an institution. ReCiter uses the wealth of identity evidence available to an academic institution to compute the likelihood a given scholar wrote a particular paper. Candidate articles are displayed in descending order of probability, and the evidence for a suggestion is shown in an information-rich and intuitive user interface. In cases where a suggested article is ambiguous, we provide additional context so that the user can understand why an article received the score it did.

ReCiter is capable of disambiguating publications authored by a diverse group of scholars at Weill Cornell Medicine at around 98% accuracy. 

Hyunah Baek, PhD candidate in Linguistics, Stony Brook University & Alex Yeung, PhD student in Linguistics, Stony Brook University

Nicole Sampson, Interim Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Stony Brook University

I will discuss data management from our College’s faculty and from a chemical biology scientist perspective.

Location: Theater

Moderator: Jessica Koos, Health Sciences Librarian, Stony Brook University Libraries

The symposium will end with concluding remarks.

Location: Theater