Publishing choices: Know your rights and expand your impact!   Wednesday April 25 2:30-4:00 pm Room 527, Health Sciences Library UNC-Chapel Hill Light refreshments will be served

Guest Speaker: Heather Joseph, Director, SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)

Please join Heather Joseph and a panel of local scholars for a lively, interactive discussion.
Topics include:

• Dispelling myths about open access
• Negotiating and retaining author's rights
• Choosing the best publishing options for the author AND the audience

Before becoming Director of SPARC in 2006, Ms. Joseph was President and Chief Operating Officer for BioOne, which focused on helping small scholarly societies in the biological sciences remain independent and competitive in the electronic arena. For her work with BioOne, she received the 2002 Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers' Award for Services to Not-for-Profit Publishing.

Pre-registration is requested. The first 20 registrants will receive free Friends of the Library commuter mugs.

Register and send a question.

Can't attend the session, but have a question? Send your question to Ms. Joseph.

This program is brought to you by the UNC Health Sciences Library, and has been funded in part with federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health under Contract No. NO1-LM-6-3502.