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Preparing For The Ostp Open Access Mandates: Iowa State University, Digital Commons And Digital Repository @ Iowa State University, Harrison W. Inefuku

Digital Repository Conference Papers, Posters and Presentations

This presentation describes Iowa State University's use of bepress' Digital Commons repository platform and the steps being taken to prepare for public access mandates from federal granting agencies.

Data Management Brownbag Evaluation Summary, Megan N. O'Donnell, Bonnie S. Bowen

Library Reports

Data management and sharing became a national research concern when the National Science Foundation (NSF) began requiring Data Management Plans (DMPs) as part of their grant proposal process in January of 2011. While NSF is not the only funding agency requiring DMPs they are one of the largest and most diverse. As competition for grant funding has become more competitive, what were once considered sideshow documents to the main proposal may now factor into proposal acceptance or rejection. In 2013, Iowa State University received over 38 million dollars in sponsored funding from the National Science Foundation. In order to maintain ...

Rejuvenating Aging Studies In Academic Libraries, Marilia Y. Antunez, Sarah E. Toevs, Melissa A. Gains

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to identify resources essential gerontology (aging studies) resources and liaison strategies that provide guidance for academic librarians working with faculty and students in this highly interdisciplinary field.

Design/methodology/approach – A convenience sample of gerontology faculty was surveyed to identify important materials, including preferred journals, databases, reference books, and sources of grey literature for gerontology research and teaching. Gerontology faculty information seeking behaviors, including faculty-librarian partnership, were also examined.

Findings – Results confirm that faculty teaching in gerontology use a wide variety of resources in their teaching and research. Faculty identified frequently used journals ...

Utilization And Refinement Of Standard Curation Models, Max Eckard, Jonathan P. Leidig

Articles

The OAIS and Curation Lifecycle Model provide widely accepted models for curation workflows. However, primary and scientific research often produces content in a manner incompatible with the lack of emphasis these models place on integrating curation-supporting activities in early stages within a scientific workflow. Pre-ingest modules are needed in both models to enable curation of complex, domainspecific content during generation processes.

Open Source Integrated Library Systems In Public Libraries, Tony Brooke

SLIS Student Research Journal

One of the most fundamental decisions a library makes is choosing an integrated library system, or ILS. A public library can remove unwanted outside influence and save money by switching their ILS to free and open source software, or FOSS. This article is an examination of the progress made by FOSS ILSs to become not only contenders against proprietary systems, but also an appropriate choice for financial, functional, and philosophical reasons. Included is a timeline of published evaluations, the milestone of 14% adoption, a summary of the current landscape, and example implementation cases. A functional analysis shows why a public ...

E-Science As A Catalyst For Transformational Change In University Research Libraries: A Dissertation, Mary E. Piorun

Library Publications and Presentations

Changes in how research is conducted, from the growth of e-science to the emergence of big data, have lead to new opportunities for librarians to become involved in the creation and management of research data, at the same time the duties and responsibilities of university libraries continue to evolve. This study examines those roles related to e-science while exploring the concept of transformational change and leadership issues in bringing about such a change. Using the framework established by Levy and Merry for first- and second-order change, four case studies of libraries whose institutions are members in the Association of Research ...

Whatever Happened To Art And Design?: Using Archival Practice To Manage The Impact Of Academic Restructuring On Institutional Repositories, Harrison W. Inefuku

Digital Repository Publications and Papers

In the interest of providing access to and preserving scholarship produced by faculty, students and staff, many universities have developed and implemented institutional repositories. Repositories are often organized into communities that correspond to campus units, including departments, research centers and institutes, and administrative offices. Universities, however, frequently undergo academic restructuring, which can make repository organization out of sync with university organization. This article addresses the impact of academic restructuring on repositories and looks to practices from archival arrangement and description to create repository organizational structures and community descriptions flexible enough to reflect university organization, despite changes arising from academic restructuring.

Data Management Planning: Nih Data Sharing Policy And Resources, Lisa Zilinski

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

Data Management Planning and Resources covers NIH Data Sharing Plans (DSPs), data management plans (DMPs), describes the areas that are typically included in DSPs and DMPs, and identifies tools and resources to help support a data sharing consultation with disciplinary faculty. Participants will be informed of the NIH data sharing policy and general requirements in order to describe them to a faculty member, be able to identify the qualities that comprise effective data sharing plans, and identify resources and tools that can be useful in data management.

Platform Selection And Strategic Alignment – Fall 2013 Symposium Presentation, Roger Skalbeck

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Whether providing services or resources, every library is faced with questions of selecting the right resource for the right reason. You need a website, a process for updating content, a way to manage operations, and a system for responding to constant change. Increasingly, new service opportunities are found in cloud and virtual platforms. This presentation looks at opportunities in selecting the right tools for the right job. The presentation will explore some unique aspects of law libraries and legal subject content many libraries rely on, including the strategic value of content from law libraries in metropolitan areas.

Jump-Starting The Conversation About Altmetrics At Umass Medical School, Lisa A. Palmer

Library Publications and Presentations

An outline of altmetrics activities by librarians at UMass Medical School's Lamar Soutter Library, which include: utilizing altmetrics in the the medical school's institutional repository, eScholarship@UMMS, for a journal published by the library; and, education and outreach efforts.

Exposing Missing Links: From Contentdm Digital Collections To The Linked Open Data Cloud, Silvia B. Southwick

Presentations (Libraries)

Agenda

• Linked Data basic concepts
• UNLV Linked Data project
• Technologies
• Transforming metadata into linked data
• Next steps

Will It Blend? A Practical Approach To Evaluating The Big Deal, David J. Beales, Nikki Demoville

Library Scholarship

This presentation describes a new approach to evaluating Big Deal packages. This approach enables librarians to negotiate with publishers more effectively by comparing the cost per download of package titles with the expected cost per download of competing publishers’ titles currently provided through interlibrary loan. The element of competition compensates for the effect of inflated journal list prices and, in some cases, will show that a Big Deal package is not the most cost effective way to provide access to articles.

The model uses a publisher’s list price and JR1 data for all titles within a package to sort ...

Navigating The Flow Of Value-Streams To The Seas Of Collection Management, Acquisitions, And Preservation, Greg W. Voelker, Richard J. W. Zwiercan, Michael Frazier

Presentations (Libraries)

Discusses the background, goals, achievements, focus, and criteria of Collection Management, Acquisitions, and Preservation.

Carpe Data: Data Curation Services At Four Different Institutions, Lisa Zilinski, Christina Chan Park, Robin Dasler, Natsuko Nicholls

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

As funding agencies require data management plans (DMP) and data sharing, institutions are developing data services in their libraries. Data services may include data curation, including metadata creation and data preservation; data discovery, such as data set registration and data linking; extended references services, such as DMP consultations and data needs assessments; and internal activities, such as environmental scans and support for institutional/data repositories.

The panel will discuss the evolution, status, and future of data services development in their respective institutions including:

• The status of data services development in their institution
• The steps taken to get to their current ...

Will It Blend? A Practical Approach To Evaluating The Big Deal, David J. Beales, Nikki Demoville

David J Beales

This presentation describes a new approach to evaluating Big Deal packages. This approach enables librarians to negotiate with publishers more effectively by comparing the cost per download of package titles with the expected cost per download of competing publishers’ titles currently provided through interlibrary loan. The element of competition compensates for the effect of inflated journal list prices and, in some cases, will show that a Big Deal package is not the most cost effective way to provide access to articles.

The model uses a publisher’s list price and JR1 data for all titles within a package to sort ...

Etd_Con Utility And User Manual, Logan E. Jewett

Digital Repository Outreach and Workshops

ETD_CON is a utility designed and developed for use by Iowa State University to improve workflow for processing electronic theses & dissertations for batch uploads to the digital repository.

Zotero, Anne E. Rauh, Linda M. Galloway

Anne Rauh

Zotero is a free, open access, citation management tool that allows users to store, manage and cite bibliographic references. Zotero can format citations in many different styles and lets users insert citations within word processing software. Zotero allows for easy collaboration between multiple authors and enables users to create private or shared reading lists. Zotero is a project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. At the completion of this class, participants will be able to:

• Install Zotero
• Collect and organize citations
• Create formatted bibliographies and insert citations into documents
• Collaborate with colleagues to create reading lists ...

Zotero, Anne E. Rauh, Linda M. Galloway

Library and Librarians' Publication

Zotero is a free, open access, citation management tool that allows users to store, manage and cite bibliographic references. Zotero can format citations in many different styles and lets users insert citations within word processing software. Zotero allows for easy collaboration between multiple authors and enables users to create private or shared reading lists. Zotero is a project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. At the completion of this class, participants will be able to:

• Install Zotero
• Collect and organize citations
• Create formatted bibliographies and insert citations into documents
• Collaborate with colleagues to create reading lists ...

Libraries As Partners Around The University Table, Bonnie J. Smith, Maria A. Jankowska, Marianne A. Buehler

Presentations (Libraries)

Agenda

Introduction - the need for the study

Research Questions

Research Method

Main Findings

Personal Papers And Mplp: Strategies And Techniques, Cheryl Oestreicher

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

In 2005, Mark A. Greene and Dennis Meissner published an article urging archivists to reassess processing strategies to focus less on detailed arrangement and description and more on minimal efforts to provide access to researchers. In 2008, the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History in Atlanta, Georgia, was awarded a grant from the Council of Library and Information Resources to process the personal papers of Andrew J. Young. The grant stipulated the implementation of Greene and Meissner’s “more product, less process” (MPLP) techniques. This article describes the analysis and strategies behind the decisions made to ...