Faculty Roles in the Evolving Scholarly Communications System

Drawing on his academic training as an economist and on his service as an advisor for the National Institute of Health’s PubMedCentral, Provost Mark Kamlet will talk about the implications of digital alternatives for Carnegie Mellon faculty and graduate students. Faculty play many roles in creating, reviewing, and preserving new knowledge both through their research and through their service to discipline scholarly societies. Kamlet will discuss how to a new approach will increase impact of faculty work and achieve a more affordable future for the disciplines and for the university.