February 10, 2010 from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Mailman School of Public Health, 722 W. 168th Street, Hess Student Commons

David Lipman, Director of the National Library of Medicine and the National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health, gives an overview of the past, present, and future of PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine’s open-access database of peer-reviewed research in the life sciences.

March 9, 2010 from 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM

Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Lerner Hall Room 555

Is publishing an open-access journal good business? And for whom? A lively discussion about business-model options for open-access scholarly journals.