Post-Truth: the role of publishers and librarians - Debate

Event

Session
Wednesday, 12 April 2017
12:12 - 12:12
Duration: 43 mins
Publication date: 12 Apr 2017
Location: Main Auditorium, Harrogate International Centre, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Part of event UKSG 40th Annual Conference and Exhibition

About the session

The debate includes:

Kate Price, Charlotte Roueché, Chris Banks, Amy Brand & Adam Gardner.

Keywords:: Google

Open Access

academics

data

journal

librarians

libraries

library

library users

publication

publishers

publishing

research

university

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Speakers

Kate Price

UKSG, Chair
Charlotte Roueche

CHARLOTTE ROUECHÉ workson texts from the Roman andByzantine periods – both literaryand inscribed on stone. Sincethe early 2000s she has beentesting the possibilities forpublishing such materials online,with two corpora of inscriptionsin 2004 and 2007 (http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk/), another in 2009(http://inslib.kcl.ac.uk/irt2009/)and a literary text in 2013(http://www.ancientwisdoms.ac.uk/library/kekaumenos-consiliaet-narrationes/). This has led her into working on Open Access,and the issues of sustainability and data management which suchpublications raise. She is now Emeritus Professor of Digital HellenicStudies at King’s College London (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3606-2049).
Amy Brand

The MIT Press

AMY BRAND was namedDirector of the MIT Press in July2015. She had previously servedas VP Academic and ResearchRelations and VP North Americaat Digital Science. From 2008to 2013 Brand worked atHarvard University, first asProgram Manager of the Officefor Scholarly Communicationand then as Assistant Provostfor Faculty Appointments andInformation. Before moving to Harvard she held long-term positionsas an Executive Editor at the MIT Press and as Director of Businessand Product Development at Crossref. Brand serves on the NationalAcademy of Sciences Board on Research Data and Information,the Duraspace Board of Directors, was a founding member of theORCID Board and regularly advises on key community initiativesin digital scholarship. She holds a BA in Linguistics from BarnardCollege and a PhD in cognitive science from MIT
Adam Gardener
Kate Price

UKSG, Chair
Kate Price

UKSG, Chair

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