School of Medicine Lunch and Learn: Medical Scholarship and Publishing: Author's Rights, Cloud Contracts and Open-Access Portals, October 26, 2016 |
All members of the VCU community including fellows, housestaff & Inova and VAMC faculty are invited. Lunch provided with RSVP by Monday, October 24. Contact info: deborah.stewart@vcuhealth.org, 828-6591.
SOM Lunchtime Learning: Medical Scholarship and Publishing: Author’s Rights, Cloud Contracts and Open-Access Portals
12 - 1:30pm, Larrick Student Center, 1st Fl., Jackson Ward B
Presenter: Madelyn Wessel, J.D., General Counsel
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to identify:
- “Standard” publishing agreements (books and journals) and the rights you can lose in those unread contracts,
- Strategies to negotiate better terms with publishing agreements,
- Problems in cloud, social media, and “click-through” contracts, and
- Opportunities and risks in open access and open data portals.