A-2 THE OHIO JOURNAL OF SCIENCE VOL. 1131 The Ohio Academy of Science Online payment option 122nd Annual Meeting http://ohiosci.org/ index_store.html Hosted by Saturday, April 6: Registration in the center lobby of The University of Findlay 300 Davis Street Building. 300 Davis Street Findlay OH 45840 7:30 AM-2:00 PM. On-site registration at a higher April 6, 2013 rate by check, VISA, or MasterCard. We discourage cash. Theme: Interdisciplinary Teaching and Scholarship in Support of STEMM Education PARKING ON CAMPUS: Watch for signs and see map in program. Please park in lots on the north or ABOUT THE ANNUAL MEETING south side of 300 Davis Street Building, 300 Davis The Ohio Academy of Science’s Annual Meeting is Street, Findlay OH 45840. for academic, governmental, and industry scientists and engineers, university and pre-college educators SMOKING POLICY: Smoking is not permitted in and teachers, and pre-college, undergraduate, and graduate any building. students, and interested lay citizens in the Ohio region. HOUSING: See options: http://www.tripadvisor. Welcome! com/Hotels-g50336-Findlay_Ohio-Hotels.html The University of Findlay welcomes you to the 122nd Annual Meeting of The Ohio Academy of Science. MEALS: Saturday, April 6 We invite you to explore our campus and to share in Lunch tickets for the dining hall may be pre-ordered the excitement and opportunities provided in this with registration for $8.00 each and may be picked up program. at registration table. Lunch can also be purchased at the dining hall the day of the meeting, but at a higher REGISTRATION rate. See registration desk for a list of off-campus Registration is required for all meeting presenters restaurants. and attendees. On-site registration will be available at a higher rate. The Ohio Academy of Science GENERAL SCHEDULE must receive forms by March 29, 2013. Please use Registration Form on the last page. Mail completed Friday, April 5, 2013 form and fee to: 3:00 PM-5:00 PM Board of Trustees Meeting The Ohio Academy of Science GFAP Mazza Conference OAS Annual Meeting Registration Room. PO Box 12519 Columbus OH 43212-0519 Saturday, April 6, 2013 FAX 614.488.7629 (for Credit Card or PO only) 7:30 AM-2:00 PM Meeting Registration in center lobby of 300 Davis Registration by credit card or purchase order only Street Building will be accepted by FAX at 614. 488.7629. Your registration materials, receipt, and name tag will 9:00 AM-11 :00 AM Morning Podium and Poster be ready at the meeting registration desk upon Sessions in 300 West Davis your arrival. For further information, please call Street Building 614.488.2228. Posters 1-30 on the first floor and 31-60 on floor 2. An Adobe PDF form is available at: http: //www. ohiosci.org/FindlayRegistrationForm.pdf VOL. 1131 THE OHIO JOURNAL OF SCIENCE A3 11:15AM All-Academy Lecture Our Institutional Host Alumni Memorial Union Multi-Purpose Room he University of Findlay is a flexible, Tforward-looking institution that is constantly seeking ways to better serve students and the community. In today’s fast-paced world, Findlay is continually adapting programs and teaching methods to meet the needs of current students who are preparing for tomorrow’s careers. Education at The University of Findlay is offered in formats that accommodate students of all ages and their time-pressured lifestyles. In addition to traditional weekday classes, Findlay offers courses at Photo by Cynthia Stalker night, on weekends and online. The Poisoner’s Handbook The University of Findlay has nearly 60 majors leading to baccalaureate degrees and offers eight eborah Blum is the Pulitzer Prize–winning master’s degrees, a doctor of pharmacy and a doctor Dauthor of five books, most recentlyThe Poisoner’s of physical therapy. Unusual and well-recognized Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine programs include equestrian studies, pre- in Jazz Age New York, which was named as one of the veterinary medicine (animal science/pre-veterinary top one hundred books of 2010 by Amazon. A highly medicine option), nuclear medicine technology, acclaimed science journalist and former president of occupational therapy and physical therapy, as well the National Association of Science Writers, Deborah as environmental, safety and occupational health is also co-editor of A Field Guide for Science Writers. management. Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages, optioned for film, and has appeared in Graduate programs offered include a master of arts numerous publications, including The New York in education, a master of arts in teaching English as a Times, Slate, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles second language (TESOL) and bilingual education, a Times, The Guardian, Discover, and Health. She also master of business administration, a master of athletic writes about chemistry and culture for the Public training, a master of occupational therapy, a master Library of Science at her blog, Speakeasy Science: of physician assistant, a master of health informatics http://blogs.plos.org/speakeasyscience/ and a master of science in environmental, safety and health management, as well as the doctor of pharmacy Deborah is the Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor and doctor of physical therapy. of Journalism at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, where she teaches science writing, creative Faculty Host and Local Arrangements nonfiction, and literary journalism. Chair 12:15 PM Official Notice of Annual Business Dr. Brian Whitaker Meeting for Academy Members only Assistant Professor of Animal Sciences The University of Findlay 12:30 PM Lunch. Pre-ordered lunch tickets will be available at registration for dining in the Henderson Dining Hall 1 :30-3:00 PM Afternoon Poster Session in 300 Davis Street Building Posters 1-30 on the first floor and 31-60 on floor 2. A-4 THE OHIO JOURNAL OF SCIENCE VOL. 1131 The Ohio Journal of Science will become a r Increase the page charges from the current rate hybrid, Open Access publication. of $85/page ($120 for non-members) to $100/ page ($200 for non-members). Grandfather in with the old fee any manuscripts currently in review. We have not increased rates in many years; the new rates are substantially below most Open Access journals. See http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ y unanimous vote on December 17, 2012, the scholarlycommunication/pdfs/oa_fees.pdf . Executive Committee approved moving The Ohio B r Retain the on-line layout/format essentially the same, Journal of Science to a hybrid model: Rapid publication, with some adjustments in type size and style for Open Access online articles plus an annual, single printed improved, on-line viewing. volume and an April Annual Meeting Program Abstracts r Retain copyright (except for government authors) to issue in print and online. articles but allow author posting and self-archiving, reprinting, and liberal reprinting without fee for According to Suber (2004; see end of this plan): non-commercial purposes and with permission of the Journal Editor. “Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free r Lift what has been a two-year embargo on the deposit of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing of the Journal for worldwide access on Knowledge restrictions. What makes it possible are the internet Bank at The Ohio State Universities Libraries. and the consent of the author or copyright-holder. See https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/handle/1811/686 . In most fields, scholarly journals do not pay authors, Individual articles would be transferred to Knowledge who can therefore consent to OA without losing Bank the same day that they go online, thus exposing revenue. In this respect, scholars and scientists are the articles almost immediately to Google Scholar® very differently situated from most musicians and and to other worldwide databases, archives and moviemakers, and controversies about OA to music and search engines such as those at Thompson-Reuters. movies do not carry over to research literature. Knowledge Bank archives—in full keyword OA is entirely compatible with peer review, and all searchable format—Adobe PDF files for all Journal the major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly articles for the past 112 years. literature insist on its importance. Just as authors of r The new Journal would be full Open Access without journal articles donate their labor, so do most journal password permission. editors and referees participating in peer review.” Links to online directories of Open Access In brief, this plan recommends the following to begin journals: immediately for The Ohio Journal of Science: r Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Lists more than 3000 journals available as open access. r Continue the Journal as a peer-reviewed, refereed Accessed 14 January 2013 http://www.doaj.org/ article, multidisciplinary international publication. r Directory of Open Access and Hybrid Journals: Each The goal is to publish—as rapidly as possible— title listed in the directory indicates whether the original contributions to education, science, publisher allows authors to pay a publication fee to engineering, technology, or their applications. make an article immediately available. Accessed 14 r The Journal will consider solicited Book Reviews and January 2013 http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=subject Research Reviews, and unsolicited Brief Notes and &cpid=20&hybrid=1 Research Reports. r SHERPA/RoMEO: This directory lists publisher r Publish articles in Adobe PDF format online as soon copyright and self-archiving policies. Listings also as they are approved in page form. indicate whether the publisher has a "paid access" r Publish a single, annual printed volume that would option with direct links to the specific publisher accumulate articles previously published online in the policies on paid access. Accessed 14 January 2013 past 11 months. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ r Publish a printed Annual Meeting Program Abstracts issue and post immediately on-line as has been the practice.