The group welcomed new PACT members Michelle Wilson, Head of Libraries’ Open Scholarship Services, and Kapil Vasudev, Collection Development Strategies Librarian. Greg Ball, Vice President for Research attended this working meeting.
Plans are underway for a UMD-hosted online event for this year’s International Open Access Week. This year’s theme is “Open for Climate Justice”. Dr. Jessica Varner (University of Southern California) and Dr. Merlin Chowkwanyun (Columbia University) come together to discuss their unique interdisciplinary research in the intersections of environmental history, public health history, and industrial pollution, and the ways in which their research both relies upon and generates open-access information. The panel will be moderated by Dr. Philip Cohen (University of Maryland).