Join the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Communication for our 4th annual panel celebrating International Open Access Week 2025.

Using this year’s theme, Who Owns Our Knowledge, as a backdrop, panelists will discuss what it means to their libraries’ mission and services. We will also explore how libraries help faculty and students understand their rights as authors and creators, and how they help them to retain ownership of their intellectual property. We will wrap-up by looking ahead at how each panelist envisions the future of libraries as stewards and promoters of knowledge ownership. A Q & A session will immediately follow.

This event is co-sponsored by the UAB Libraries and the Alabama Library Association Scholarly Communication Round Table. 

Panelists

Megan Bean, JD
Assistant Professor of Practice, Copyright & Information Policy Specialist
Mississippi State University Libraries

Laura Burtle, JD, MLIS
Associate Dean
Georgia State University Library

April Urban, PhD, MLIS
Instructional Services & Scholarly Communications Librarian
M. Louis Salmon Library, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Moderator

Jeff Graveline, JD, MLIS
Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Scholarly Communication
Director of the UAB Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Communication
UAB Libraries