Concurrent 3B: Institutional Repositories: A Fast-Forward View

Catherine Candee has been leading the CDLs eScholarship Publishing Services since May 2000. The services were founded to provide low-cost, alternative publication services for the UC community, to support widespread distribution of the materials that result from research and teaching at UC, and to foster new models of scholarly publishing through development and application of advanced technologies. These services are increasingly offered through a joint effort of CDL and the University of California Press as UC strives to redefine the role of the university in scholarly publishing. The speaker will discuss how our largest public research university is addressing the challenges and opportunities of 21st century scholarly publishing and the role of the institutional repository in it.

Clifford Lynch has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and Educause, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeleys School of Information. He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. Lynch serves on the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress; he was a member of the National Research Council committees that published The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Infrastructure and Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits, and now serves on the NRCs committee on digital archiving and the National Archives and Records Administration.

Dr. Nancy Fried Foster is Lead Anthropologist for River Campus Libraries and manager of the Digital Initiatives Unit. She is a principal investigator on both an IMLS funded study of next-generation repository users and the eXtensible Catalog project, which is funded by the Mellon Foundation. She has conducted studies on research and library practices of faculty and students, as well as several small studies of librarian work practices. With a Ph.D. in applied anthropology, Dr. Foster has extensive research experience in the Amazon and Papua New Guinea as well as in educational and other institutions in the US and UK. She has received Fulbright, Woodrow Wilson, and Spencer Foundation grants for her anthropological research projects.