FRIDAY AFTERNOON SEMINAR ON INFORMATION ACCESS.
Fridays 3-5 pm. In-person in South Hall 107 with Zoom access unless stated otherwise. See Summaries.
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.
    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, 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.

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