Dunbar Library to host symposium on open access to research

Caroline Whitacre, vice president for research at The Ohio State University.

Issues related to copyright and open access to scholarly research data will be the focus of the Wright State University/Cleveland State University Joint Open Access Symposium.

The symposium will be held Wednesday, Oct. 22, 9:15 a.m.–3:45 p.m. in room 441 in the Dunbar Library. Wright State faculty and staff may attend the symposium at no cost.

Caroline Whitacre, vice president for research at The Ohio State University, will give a keynote address at 2:45 p.m. on the SHARE (SHared Access Research Ecosystem) Initiative.

SHARE is a higher education and research community initiative to ensure the preservation of, access to and reuse of research results. Whitacre is a member of the SHARE steering committee.

The symposium also includes presentations on how open access is changing scholarship, CORE Scholar and services offered by Wright State’s Office of Digital Services, and the role of institutional repositories in the open access movement.

Whitacre, Ph.D., has served as the vice president for research at Ohio State since 2008. She is also a professor of microbial infection and immunity and former chair of the Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics in the College of Medicine. Previously, she served as the associate vice president for health sciences research and vice dean for research in the College of Medicine.

In 2004, she was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Whitacre received her B.A. and Ph.D. from Ohio State and completed her postdoctoral training at Northwestern Medical School in Chicago.

The symposium is organized by the Wright State Libraries, the Friends of the Libraries and the Office of Digital Services.

View the symposium schedule (PDF). For more information on the symposium, contact Jane Wildermuth at jane.wildermuth@wright.edu.