Event Title

Know Your (Author) Rights: Understanding and Educating Faculty About Author Rights

Presenter Information

Allyson Mower, University of UtahFollow

Location

King Library 225/229

Start Date

25-5-2011 9:45 AM

End Date

25-5-2011 10:30 AM

Description

Allyson Mower will discuss the basics of author rights, strategies for engaging the faculty and leveraging these conversations to increase open access archiving within the digital repository. This segment of the program features Allyson Mower who is the Scholary Communications & Copyright Librarian at the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah. During the segment, she will discuss the basics of author rights, strategies for engaging the faculty and leveraging these conversations to increase open access archiving within the digital repository.

Speaker Biography

Allyson Mower, MA, MLIS is the Scholarly Communications & Copyright Librarian at the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah. She provides information, tools, and services related to both publishing and copyright. Previous to this position, Allyson worked at Eccles Health Sciences Library where she served as reference associate, virtual reference coordinator (2003-2006), and institutional repository coordinator (2006-2008). Allyson spearheaded the digitization of the health sciences theses and dissertations at Eccles Library and was co-creator of a copyright permissions tool called University Scholarly Knowledge Inventory System (U-SKIS). Allyson received her MLIS from the University of Washington in 2009 and holds an MA in Liberal Arts from St. John's College and a BA in American Studies from Utah State University. She was also a 2008 Library Journal Mover & Shaker.

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