October 22, 2015
Open Access, Open Data, Open Minds featured visionary ideas and inspirational speakers. It combined the 9th Prelec Lecture on excellence in healthcare informatics with dynamic leaders from influential open access initiatives, and includes panel discussions of the value and meaning of open access and open data for academics, researchers and librarians.
What Does Open Access and Open Data Mean?
- Low Cost: Making research accessible and affordable.
- Empowering Authors: Authors can reuse and share their own work.
- Sharing & Advancing Research: Share data and collaborate with other researchers.
- Meeting Mandates: Open Access and Open Data facilitate granting agencies’ public access mandates.
- Learn more at the Center for Scholarly Communication.
Location
Stony Brook University
Wang Center
100 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY 11794
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Questions?
Email libraryevents@stonybrook.edu.
Program
WANG CENTER
8:15am-9:00am– Breakfast – Theater Lobby
9:00-9:20am– Welcome Opening Remarks – Theater
Constantia Constantinou, Dean of University Libraries, SUNY Distinguished Librarian
Dennis N. Assanis, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Lina Obeid, MD, Vice Dean, Scientific Affairs
Arthur P. Grollman, MD, Distinguished Professor, Evelyn G. Glick Professor of Experimental Medicine, and Director, Laboratory for Chemical Biology- Introducing the keynote speaker.
9:30am-10:15am
Keynote/ Prelec Lecture – Theater
“Research data as knowledge asset: the case for curation and sharing”
Neil Rambo, Department Chair and Director of the Health Sciences Library at the New York University School of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center
10:15am-10:30am Q & A
10:30am-10:45am– Coffee Break – Theater Lobby
10:45am-11:20am– Panel Discussion – Theater
“Biomedical Informatics, Big Data and Open Data initiatives”
Moderator
Shafeek Fazal, Associate Director, Library Technology, Discovery and
Digital Initiatives
Panelists
Jonas Almeida, Professor and Chief Technology Officer
“Executable Publications – are we there yet?”
Janos Hajagos, Research Assistant Professor and Chief of Data Analytics
“Making data liquid and the role of metadata: examples from describing a patient’s community”
Jennifer Lyon, Biomedical and Translational Medicine Librarian, Health Sciences Library
“Open data initiatives from the NIH and NCBI”
11:20am-11:30am– Q & A
11:30am-12:15pm – Theater
Gary Ward, Board Chairman, PLoS (Public Library of Science)
12:15pm-12:30pm– Q & A
12:30pm-2:00pm– Lunch – Zodiac Gallery
2:00pm-2:45pm – Theater
“Open Humanities and the Future of Scholarly Communication”
Marguerite Avery, Director of Scholarly Communication at Hypothes.is, and Senior Acquisitions Editor, MIT Press
2:45pm-3:00pm-Q & A
3:00pm-3:45pm– Panel Discussion – Theater
“Research, Public Access and Open Access”
Moderator
Darren Chase, Scholarly Communication Librarian, University Libraries
Panelists
Evelyn Bromet, Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Laura Costello, Head, Research & Emerging Technologies, University Libraries
Celia Marshik, Chair, Department of English
Martin Schoonen, Director of Environmental Initiatives, Brookhaven National Laboratory
3:45pm-4:00pm– Q & A
4:00pm-4:20pm–Closing Remarks – Theater
David Conover, Vice President for Research
Darren Chase, Scholarly Communication Librarian, University Libraries
Registration
Registration is free. Please fill out the online registration form.
Directions & Accommodations
By Car
Take the Long Island Expressway (Route 495) to Exit 62. Follow Nicolls Road (Route 97) north for 9 miles. To find the campus via GPS, enter the address “100 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY 11790.”
By Train
Stony Brook Station is located along the Long Island Rail Road, Port Jefferson line. From Penn Station in Manhattan, travel time is approximately one and a half hours. A free shuttle service is available at Stony Brook Station to the Wang Center.
By Ferry
From Bridgeport, Connecticut to Port Jefferson, Long Island. Find schedule and fare information at http://www.88844ferry.com/
From New London, Connecticut to Orient Point, Long Island, take Route 25A west to Nicolls Road and proceed as above. www.longislandferry.com/
By Plane
Long Island’s Islip-MacArthur Airport is 16 miles from the campus and is serviced by direct flights by major airlines and commuter lines. New York City Area Airports (JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark) are 50 miles to the west.
Visitor Parking – *Disability parking is available at the Stony Brook Administration Parking Garage.
Parking Garage
$2.00 per hour / $10 Up to and over 5 Hours
Located at next to the Stony Brook Administration Building
Parking is free all day Saturday and Sunday.
*Disability Parking is Available.
Meters
$1.50/hour
Located at the Red Faculty/Staff parking lot
Parking is free all day Saturday and Sunday.
Meters are enforced 7 AM to 7 PM, Monday through Friday.
*Parking is free for visitors after 4 PM, Monday through Friday, at Red Faculty/Staff designated parking lot.
*Check for signs at parking lot entrances for restrictions. A complete map of Stony Brook University Parking lots and garages is available here.
For additional information about parking (including accessible parking for guests with disabilities), please see visit here.
Accommodations
The closest hotels to campus are:
- Hilton Garden Inn Stony Brook, 1 Circle Road, Stony Brook, NY, 631.941.2980
- Holiday Inn Express, 3131 Nesconset Hwy, Stony Brook, NY 631.471.8000
- The Three Village Inn,150 Main Street, Stony Brook, NY 631.751.0555
