Hi SCCKG:

On Friday at 3p Lidia Uziel from UCSB will be talking about the Open Book
Collective as a part of the UC Berkeley Friday iSchool Seminar series.

Perhaps many of you are already up-to-speed on the OBC, but if not, feel
free to join the Zoom (which I believe will be soon posted to
https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2024/open-book-collective-sustainable-futures-open-access-monographs
).

Cheers,
Tim

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FRIDAY AFTERNOON SEMINAR ON INFORMATION ACCESS.
Fridays 3-5 pm. In-person in South Hall 107 with Zoom access unless stated
otherwise. See Summaries
<https://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-ia/s24/summary.html>.
Link available only at the School's event listing:
www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events.

* Feb 9: Lidia UZIEL, UC Santa Barbara: The Open Book Collective:
Sustainable Futures for Open Access Monographs.*
    The Open Book Collective (OBC) is an international partnership and a
collective of open access (OA) publishers, infrastructure providers,
libraries, and other non-profit organizations. Its mission is to create a
new OA book publishing ecosystem that is equitable, community-governed, and
built on sustainable business models and community-owned infrastructures.
The session will present the OBC's community-led governance structure and
highlight the project's principal challenges in reshaping the larger open
knowledge ecosystem. It will also include a discussion of strategic
partnerships focused on amplifying bibliodiverse and equitable
community-led approaches and expanding critical infrastructures for OA
monograph publishing. More at /www.openbookcollective.org
<https://www.openbookcollective.org/>.
    *Lidia Uziel* is Associate University Librarian for Research Resources
and Scholarly Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
She is the Chair of the Board of Stewards of the Open Book Collective and
was actively involved in the Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures
for Monographs (COPIM) project. Prior to the University of California,
Santa Barbara, Lidia held several leadership positions at Harvard and Yale
University Libraries.
    Lidia holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature received in cotutelle
from the University of Montreal and Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University, a Master
in Comparative Literature from Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University, and a Master
in Library and Information Science from the University of Montreal. Her
current research is in digital knowledge management, including the
intersection of scholarly communication, libraries, and digital
humanities/computational projects.

* Feb 16: Jevin WEST: Search Engines as Gates and Gateways to
Misinformation.*
    Search engines are indispensable tools for navigating our information
worlds. They can prioritize authoritative sources and de-prioritize
problematic content; they can label results and contextualize search
headings; but they can also be gateways to misleading information
obfuscated in ads and hard-to-debunk, video content. Given this potential,
what are the effects of skewed or misleading query results? And do these
misleading results alter collective perceptions of health, science, and
political discourse? In this talk, I will explore these questions through
two recent publications. In the first paper, we audit search results for
misinformation during the 2020 U.S. election. In the second paper, we look
at the impact of academic search engines and recommender systems on the
construction of the scientific literature. I will also talk about next
steps for this kind of research and how it can inform search literacy
efforts.
    *Jevin West* is a visiting associate professor here and an Associate
Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington (UW).
He is the co-founder and the inaugural director of the Center for an
Informed Public at UW, aimed at resisting strategic misinformation,
promoting an informed society and strengthening democratic discourse. His
research and teaching focus on the impact of data and technology on
science, with a focus on slowing the spread of misinformation. He is the
co-author of the book, *Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a
Data-Driven World
<https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/563882/calling-bullshit-by-carl-t-bergstrom-and-jevin-d-west/>*,
which helps non-experts question numbers, data, and statistics without an
advanced degree in data science. More at jevinwest.org/.

Feb 23: Coye CHESHIRE: Trustworthiness and Online Health Information.
Mar 8: Javier CHA, Hong Kong University: Future-Proofing the Past: Big Data
and the Transformation of Historical Practice.
Mar 15: Christine BORGMAN, UCLA: From Data Creator to Data Reuser: Distance
Matters.
Mar 22: Howard BESSER. Also AnnaLee SAXENIAN.
Mar 29: No Seminar. Spring Break.
Apr 12: David S. H. ROSENTHAL: Decentralized Systems Aren't.

-- 
Michael Buckland
School of Information, University of California, Berkeley
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/

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