Featured Speaker: How Open Scholarship will Help Reboot the World
Location
KIPJ Theatre
Session Type
Event
Start Date
18-4-2023 1:45 PM
End Date
18-4-2023 2:25 PM
Abstract
During the last three years, global society has undergone unprecedented shocks and change including Covid-19, highlighted racial injustice, major supply chain problems, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and high inflation in addition to ongoing, growing challenges presented by climate change. While these events and trends might seem disconnected, there is an important thread related to open scholarship. The rapid development of Covid-19 vaccines demonstrated the value of openly sharing research results. The most recent White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memorandum on public access has affirmed and extended the expectations regarding sharing results from federally funded research. Libraries and other cultural heritage institutions face a unique moment in time during which our leadership, our choices, and the people we empower could have profound benefits on global society as it seeks out the new equilibrium.
Featured Speaker: How Open Scholarship will Help Reboot the World
KIPJ Theatre
During the last three years, global society has undergone unprecedented shocks and change including Covid-19, highlighted racial injustice, major supply chain problems, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and high inflation in addition to ongoing, growing challenges presented by climate change. While these events and trends might seem disconnected, there is an important thread related to open scholarship. The rapid development of Covid-19 vaccines demonstrated the value of openly sharing research results. The most recent White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memorandum on public access has affirmed and extended the expectations regarding sharing results from federally funded research. Libraries and other cultural heritage institutions face a unique moment in time during which our leadership, our choices, and the people we empower could have profound benefits on global society as it seeks out the new equilibrium.
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Sayeed Choudhury is the Director of the Open Source Programs Office at Carnegie Mellon University. Choudhury was a President Obama appointee to the National Museum and Library Services Board. He was a member of the National Academies Committee on Forecasting Costs for Preserving, Archiving, and Promoting Access to Biomedical Data and a member of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information. He was also a member of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. He has testified for the Research Subcommittee of the Congressional Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Choudhury has served as principal investigator for projects funded through the National Science Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Library of Congress' NDIIPP, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Open Society Foundation, Microsoft Research, and a Maryland based venture capital group.