Scholarly communication and academic publishing are quickly evolving and these developments are transforming the sharing of research and scholarship.

In observance of Open Access Week 2012, the Leddy Library will host Shana Kimball, head of publishing services at the University of Michigan’s MPublishing, for a free public lecture Tuesday on academic publishing, open access and the development and impact of MPublishing at the University of Michigan.

The Open Access movement has gained momentum and online electronic publishing is generating new avenues for communication. These changes have created opportunities for universities to increase access to the results, research, develop and publish their own journals and monographs, and to share their raw data in order to enable new research.

Kimball is editor of The Journal of Electronic Publishing, and editor-at-large for digitalculturebooks, an imprint of the University of Michigan Press in digital humanities and new media studies. She is also a member of the steering group of Open Humanities Press, an international publishing collective in critical and cultural theory.

Her October 23 talk will begin at 2 p.m. in room 4107, Leddy Library.