Video recording of the University-wide Spring 2016 commencement ceremony held at Apogee Stadium on Friday, May 13 at 10:00 a.m. Approximately 3,411 undergraduate students, 740 masters students and 119 doctoral students were honored at the ceremony. The ceremony includes remarks by UNT President Dr. Neal Smatresk, System Chancellor Lee F. Jackson, System Regent Laura Wright, President of the Student Government Association Adam Allatry, former U.S. Army Sergeant and UNT Alumnus Steven Davidson, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Finley Graves, and member of the Alumni Association Byron Campbell. Preceding the commencement, the video includes a narrated highlight on the origin and history of UNT, as well as a message delivered by President Dr. Neal Smatresk in celebration of the university's 125th (quasquicentennial) anniversary.

Michael Doughman tells the story of the International LGBT Press Tour at Volume 21 of Outrageous Oral, held on May 12, 2016 at the Round Up Saloon in Dallas. Outrageous Oral is a quarterly evening of GLBT storytelling hosted by The Dallas Way, a GLBT history organization. Robert Emery introduces Doughman.

Dickie Weaver and Mary Mallory tell the story of the Black Tie Dinner at Volume 21 of Outrageous Oral, held on May 12, 2016 at the Round Up Saloon in Dallas. Outrageous Oral is a quarterly evening of GLBT storytelling hosted by The Dallas Way, a GLBT history organization. Robert Emery introduces Weaver and Mallory.

Video of the session "Making an Open Information Age: Power, Freedom and Inequality in an Age of Bits," which explores why we can and must create a world of open information and its implications for technology, politics, laws, and economics.

Video recording of a presentation from the 2016 Library Publishing Forum. This presentation offers a model for guiding editors and authors through the process of securing funding to support their journal.

Video recording of a panel presentation session at the 2016 Library Publishing Forum. In this session, presenters discuss the questions and concerns regarding publishing, protecting, and promoting undergraduate scholarship.

Video recording of a lightning talks session from the 2016 Library Publishing Forum. This lightning talks panel contains presentations on grant projects funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Video of the panel session "Reflections on the Symposium...and the Library Publishing Forum," discussing emerging themes from the discussions of the Library Publishing Forum and the UNT Open Access Symposium.

Video of the joint keynote for the 2016 Library Publishing Forum and UNT Open Access Symposium. This presentation discusses where scholarly publishing is headed, what is happening in open-access publishing, and how the two can support alternatives to commercial publishing.

Video recording of the keynote session for the 2016 Library Publishing Forum. This presentation discusses digital publishing at West Virginia University and the development of Vega, an open-source academic publishing platform.

Video of the presentation "SHARE in Open Science and Open Access," discussing the development of SHARE, an openly available dataset that enables the tracking of research objects across the research lifecycle.

Video recording of a presentation at the 2016 Library Publishing Forum. In this session, presenters discuss scholarly publishing literacy and outreach in terms of education new and experienced researchers.

Video recording of a panel presentation session at the 2016 Library Publishing Forum Open Educational Resources (OER) Preconference. This panel discussess the need for OER, and examples from institutional initiatives.

Video of the panel session "Perceptions of Open Access," discussing perceptions of open access through an analysis of journal solicitation emails, a study of library science open access journals, and a discussion of the future of open access.

Video of the presentation "Open Educational Resources: Reducing Costs, Expanding Access, and Improving Efficacy," with an overview of the open educational resources movement, how it is playing out on campus, and research showing the impact on students.

Video recording of a presentation from the 2016 Library Publishing Forum. This presentation discusses experiential learning opportunities through student internships with Oregon State University Libraries Publishing.

Video recording of a lightning talks panel from the 2016 Library Publishing Forum. This lightning talks panel contains presentations on publishing non-traditional works.

Video recording of a lightning talks session at the 2016 Library Publishing Forum. In this session, presenters discuss Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives at local and international levels.

Video of the keynote presentation "From Subscription to Open Access: A Roadmap," which provides a model for flipping subscription journals to Open Access using Linguistics in Open Access (LingOA) as an example.

Video recording of a lightning panel at the 2016 Library Publishing Forum. In this session, presenters discuss the development of publishing initiatives, including local perspectives and larger initiatives to collectively study publishing data.

Video of the panel session "Sustaining Open Access" with presentations discussing open access publishing, specifically through the Open Access Publishing Cooperative Study, the Lethbridge Journal Incubator, and the Digital Monograph P+L tool to estimate full publishing costs.

Video of the featured speaker session discussing the Open Science Framework, a free, open scholarly commons to address problems with reproduction and verification of research.

Video recording of a presentation at the 2016 Library Publishing Forum. In this session, presenters discuss their work in this area, addressing topics like race, culture, sexuality, and gender in formats like print books, online journals, and institutional repositories.

Video recording of a panel presentation for the 2016 Library Publishing Forum. In this panel, presenters discuss the Oberlin Group consortium and their development of the Lever Press. This video also includes Welcome Remarks and a link to an evaluation survey for the conference.