Anali Perry hosts a discussion with three ASU professors about Open Access issues, their own open access activities, and the Open Access Week exhibit at the Tempe campus October. 12-23.  The Open Access movement encourages providing access to scholarly literature that is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.

 
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Dr. Jane Maienschein is a Regents’ Professor, President’s Professor, and Parents Association Professor,  and Director of the Center of Biology & Society in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University and Director of the Embryo Project Encyclopedia.  Dr. Maienschein is also featured on another Library Channel Podcast where she goes into more detail about the Embryo Project.

Dr. Claudia Mesch is an Associate Professor of Art History in the School of Art at Arizona State University and founding editor of the Journal of Surrealism and the Americas.

Dr. Michael Smith, Professor of Archaeology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at ASU, also blogs about archaeology and scholarly publishing at Publishing Archaeology.

Host:
Anali Perry

Guests:
Dr. Jane Maienschein
Dr. Claudia Mesch
Dr. Michael Smith

Running Time: 35:32

In order to create and refine library services and resources to support the faculty of the New American University, it is imperative that we in the libraries have a clear understanding of their research process.

In part two Dr. Keith Kintigh the associate director of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change show the evolution and history intellectual threads and activities of his work that have gotten including archaeological fieldwork, southwest biocomplexity, the development of quantitative and formal methods, his involvement with the Society for American Archaeology, and tDAR – The Digital Archaeological Record. Keith will also talk about needs for broad-based information infrastructure and his collaboration with the library and how this relationship forms new analogies.

The program concludes with questions from the audience and closing remarks by Associate University Librarian Dr. John Howard. Dr. Howard discusses what this exciting research at ASU means to the library in capturing dynamic scholarly research, maintaining them over time and making research available to diverse communities.

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Dr. Keith Kintigh is the associate director of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change. Dr. Kintigh’s career-long commitment to understanding political organization in middle-range societies has focused on the Cíbola area along the Arizona-New Mexico border near Zuni Pueblo. Kintigh’s other major research focus has been on the development and application of quantitative methods in archaeology. Part 1 features Dr. Jane Maienschein discussing The Embryo Project and its partnership with the ASU Knowledge Network. Speaker: Keith Kintigh Introduction: Vicki Coleman Closing Comments: John Howard

Episode 74
Running Time 44:30

In order to create and refine library services and resources to support the faculty of the New American University, it is imperative that we in the libraries have a clear understanding of their research process.

In part one Dr. Jane Maienschein discusses The Embryo Project and its partnership with the ASU Knowledge Network.

Download Podcast in MP4 format (Chapter Enhanced AAC)
Note: This is an enhanced podcast with dynamic links, chapters, and slides from Jane’s presentation. It is best viewed in iTunes. This program is also available as a standard MP3 at The Internet Archive.

Dr. Jane Maienschein, Regents’ Professor, President’s Professor, and Parents Association Professor, serves as the director of the Center for Biology and Society in the School of Life Sciences. Dr. Maienschein specializes in the history and philosophy of biology and the way that biology, bioethics, and biopolicy play out in society.

Next time: Part 2 features Dr. Keith Kintigh the associate director of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change with closing remarks from Associate University Librarian Dr. John Howard.

Speaker:
Jane Maienschein

Introduction:
Vicki Coleman

Episode 73
Running Time 40:51