Library News for the Faculty

Scholarly Communication Update: New Web Site Launched; Fall Faculty Workshops Scheduled

Are your research articles widely read and easily accessible? Do you know when and how to get permission to use someone else's work in your course? Are you on the editorial board of a scholarly journal?

The Library has launched a new section of its Web site with services for and information about on all aspects of copyright, publishing, and intellectual property. There you'll find news, events, resources, and links to services as well as regularly updated information about developing issues, policy debates, and proposed solutions to challenges in scholarly publishing.

In addition to the revamped Web site, the Library's popular faculty lunch series returns this fall, with:

If You Don't Ask, How Can You Tell?: Getting Permission to Use Material in Course Instruction and E-Publishing
Thursday, October 30, noon-1:30 p.m.
Charles E. Young Research Library

Do you want to include someone else's chart, poem, or data table from the Internet in one of your forthcoming e-publications? Are you taking advantage of instructional tools such as Blackboard/Web CT, Sakai, Moodle, podcasting software, or other innovations? If you answered yes, this session will help you find out when you need permission and how to get it. Campus legal experts will outline best practices for permissions and permission requirements.

Attendance is open to UCLA faculty only; admission is free, but advance reservations are required. Lunch will be provided.

NIH Public Access Policy Workshop
Have you received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)? If so, you need to comply with its new public access policy. As of April 7, 2008, researchers receiving NIH grants must submit copies of their resulting research papers to PubMed Central (PMC) when those papers are accepted for publication in a journal. PMC, the NIH's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, will then make the papers freely available to the public no later than twelve months after publication.

The UCLA Library is working with the UCLA Office of Research Policy and Compliance to help researchers follow this new policy. Find out more on the new Web site described above and at an update session on Wednesday, October 29, 1-3 p.m. in the Science and Engineering Library.

Among the issues that will be discussed are how to find out whether a publisher automatically submits papers to PMC, how and when to submit a paper to PMC if the publisher does not automatically do so, and what else authors can to broaden access to their manuscripts.

Registration is limited to UCLA faculty; advance registration is required. Admission is free, and refreshments will be provided.