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Preserving Our Heritage: Protecting Law Library Core Missions Through Updated Library Quality Assessment Standards, Sarah Hooke Lee
Preserving Our Heritage: Protecting Law Library Core Missions Through Updated Library Quality Assessment Standards, Sarah Hooke Lee
Sarah Hooke Lee
Professor Lee argues that traditional quality criteria for judging law libraries are now inadequate because they no longer capture the vital multiple missions of today's libraries. She suggests ways that law librarians can begin to develop indicia of quality that can adequately evaluate the contemporary law school library and preserve its core missions.
Creating And Hosting Student-Run Research Journals: A Case Study, Adrian K. Ho
Creating And Hosting Student-Run Research Journals: A Case Study, Adrian K. Ho
Adrian K. Ho
This case study aims to examine an academic library’s roles in facilitating the creation and hosting of open access student-run research journals. In addition to providing an online platform to host the journals, the library acquaints students with scholarly publishing, assists them in securing various resources available on campus, and offers support for content management. There are challenges and opportunities for the library as it undertakes the responsibility of hosting student journals. The article concludes with a discussion of possible topics for future research.
Digitalcommons@Linfield, Kathleen Spring
Digitalcommons@Linfield, Kathleen Spring
Kathleen Spring
This 30-minute presentation introduced DigitalCommons@Linfield, the institutional repository for Linfield College, to the attendees of the 2011 Faculty Development Workshop at Linfield College.
The Benefits Of Managing And Publishing Etds "In House" Using An Open Access Repository, Meghan Banach
The Benefits Of Managing And Publishing Etds "In House" Using An Open Access Repository, Meghan Banach
Meghan Banach Bergin
Open access repositories have given universities an exciting new opportunity to manage and publish their own ETDs. At the same time, new challenges have emerged such as objections to open access and new more complicated workflows. Meghan Banach, Metadata Catalog Librarian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has coordinated the library side of ETD management for the past 4 years. She oversees the management of about 500 theses and dissertations per year. She will use the UMass ETD program as a case study to describe two workflows for managing ETDS: one for doctoral dissertations which involves both the UMI Proquest …
Hybrid Journals: Transition To Full Open Access Or Here To Stay?, Adrian K. Ho
Hybrid Journals: Transition To Full Open Access Or Here To Stay?, Adrian K. Ho
Adrian K. Ho
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Scholarly Communication Services: Repository-Based Library Publishing, Adrian K. Ho
Scholarly Communication Services: Repository-Based Library Publishing, Adrian K. Ho
Adrian K. Ho
This presentation discusses strategies for building a user base of the online publishing platform provided by Western Libraries at The University of Western Ontario. It also describes support services for platform users.
Review Of Open Access: What You Need To Know Now, Kirstin Duffin
Review Of Open Access: What You Need To Know Now, Kirstin Duffin
Kirstin Duffin
The scholarly publishing crisis is by no means a new concept. The rising cost of journals has been pricing libraries out of subscriptions for years now. This crunch on libraries’ acquisitions budgets has led many people to rethink the traditional publishing model. Enter the open access (OA) movement. Use of the term “open access” dates back almost a decade, but the field continues to evolve. In this new work, Walt Crawford organizes a clear and succinct introduction to and overview of OA, covering concepts related to OA journals, publishing, and repositories. Now retired, Crawford was a senior analyst at Research …