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Recruiting And Retooling To Staff The Ir, Marilyn S. Billings Mar 2011

Recruiting And Retooling To Staff The Ir, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

This presentation uses the IR at UMass Amherst, ScholarWorks, as a case study in finding creative ways to staff an IR.


The Changing Landscape Of Scholarly Communication: The Role Of The Library & Its Partners, Marilyn S. Billings Mar 2011

The Changing Landscape Of Scholarly Communication: The Role Of The Library & Its Partners, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

Presentation for online ISIS group.


Open Education Resources At Umass Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings Nov 2010

Open Education Resources At Umass Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

This presentation was the third part of a panel discussion entitled Open Textbook Models: View from the Library.


Author Rights, Or, The Rights Of Copyright, Marilyn S. Billings, Fred Zinn May 2010

Author Rights, Or, The Rights Of Copyright, Marilyn S. Billings, Fred Zinn

Marilyn S. Billings

This moderated discussion will cover the two roles that institutional repositories can play when talking to instructors about copyright and fair use. On the one hand, we show repositories as a source of materials for instructors who are confused or concerned about the rules related the use of copyrighted materials in their teaching. On the other, we demonstrate how our own institutional repository, ScholarWorks, can be used as a publishing tool by instructors who want more control over how their works are used in education. As a group, we will discuss strategies for talking to instructors about repositories, as well …


The Changing Landscape Of Scholarly Communication: The Role Of The Library And An Ir, Marilyn S. Billings Mar 2010

The Changing Landscape Of Scholarly Communication: The Role Of The Library And An Ir, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

No abstract provided.


New Partnerships With Faculty: Creating And Publishing Open Access Journals, Marilyn S. Billings Mar 2010

New Partnerships With Faculty: Creating And Publishing Open Access Journals, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

This presentation explores new collaborations with faculty to create, manage, and distribute open access journals using UMass Amherst's digital repository ScholarWorks as a case study. We will also touch on how we engaged with faculty to distribute conference proceedings and other scholarly materials.


The Potential Of Partnerships, Marilyn S. Billings Dec 2009

The Potential Of Partnerships, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

This webinar will use the University of Massachusetts‘ institutional repository as a case study to explore how the new digital repository service has affected the way librarians envision our place in the future of the academy, how the academy is changing its view of the library’s role, new tools and skills that we are developing to fulfill this service, and new partnerships that we have created and fostered to exploit this new vision. We hope to foster discussion and provide insights and opportunities for further exploration of how the role of libraries as publishers enables us to be key partners …


The Changing Landscape Of Scholarly Communication & The Role Of An Institutional Repository, Marilyn S. Billings Nov 2009

The Changing Landscape Of Scholarly Communication & The Role Of An Institutional Repository, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

This presentation outlines new emerging areas of scholarly communication that are being seen in Academic Libraries, the relationship to institutional repositories, and to the changing roles of academic librarians.


Library As Publishing Agent: Exploring New Roles, Marilyn S. Billings Oct 2009

Library As Publishing Agent: Exploring New Roles, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

Academic libraries of all sizes can and must strategically position themselves as campus publishers. One means of doing this is to implement an Institutional Repository, providing opportunities to showcase senior theses, dissertations, award-winning papers, and student and faculty peer-reviewed journals. The Academic Librarians Section (ALS) presented Marilyn Billings from UMass Amherst to explain how this works in her library.


Scholarworks, The Umass Amherst Digital Repository: Showcasing New Ways Of Sharing Our Scholarly Work, Marilyn S. Billings Oct 2009

Scholarworks, The Umass Amherst Digital Repository: Showcasing New Ways Of Sharing Our Scholarly Work, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

Presentation about ScholarWorks digital repository, scholarly communication, ETDs, graduate student work, and open access publishing to the Graduate School's program for the Graduate Program Directors. This is an update of the presentation given in Sept 2008.


Esence: The Ethics In Science And Engineering National Clearinghouse, Marilyn S. Billings Oct 2009

Esence: The Ethics In Science And Engineering National Clearinghouse, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

This talk provides an example, through ESENCe, of the benefit to librarians of partnering with faculty to pull in large grants.


Scholarworks As A Digital Publishing Platform, Marilyn S. Billings Sep 2009

Scholarworks As A Digital Publishing Platform, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

This presentation demonstrates how the University Libraries at UMass Amherst are using their Digital Commons IR ScholarWorks to provide digital publishing programs for UMass Amherst.


Documenting And Promoting Engagement Using Scholarworks, Umass Amherst’S Digital Repository, Marilyn S. Billings Sep 2009

Documenting And Promoting Engagement Using Scholarworks, Umass Amherst’S Digital Repository, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

The University of Massachusetts Amherst scholarly community is exploiting new digital technologies to showcase campus engagement initiatives. This session shows how a new partnership between the Outreach Division and the University Libraries has created opportunities for dissemination, institutional tracking, and understanding engagement as a vital component of teaching and scholarship.


Library Space Redesign (Virtual), Marilyn S. Billings Jun 2009

Library Space Redesign (Virtual), Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

This session will present a series of "think pieces" for both librarians and other campus constituencies to explore as we create new ways of working together to meet the needs of students, faculty and researchers of the 21st century. Topics will include new scholarly communication techniques, digital repositories, new partnerships and ways of marketing our scholarly outreach activities, and examine the implications for our current and future workforce.


To Host Or Not To Host, Or, Decisions Along The Way To A Successful Hosted Repository Investment, Marilyn S. Billings Jan 2009

To Host Or Not To Host, Or, Decisions Along The Way To A Successful Hosted Repository Investment, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

The decision to host a digital repository or purchase a hosted solution can be a daunting one. What are some of the factors involved? Who should be consulted along the way? How does one go about making this decision? This presentation addresses these questions and the decision process that led the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries to choose Digital Commons, the digital repository software developed and hosted by bePress. Several projects currently underway in ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst are highlighted.


Scholarworks, The Umass Amherst Digital Repository: Showcasing New Ways Of Sharing Our Scholarly Work, Marilyn S. Billings Sep 2008

Scholarworks, The Umass Amherst Digital Repository: Showcasing New Ways Of Sharing Our Scholarly Work, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

Presentation about ScholarWorks digital repository, scholarly communication, ETDs and graduate student work. Given at the Graduate School's program for the Graduate Program Directors, Sept 23, 2008.


Research Showcase Projects Within Scholarworks @ Umass Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings Jun 2008

Research Showcase Projects Within Scholarworks @ Umass Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

This presentation highlights various types of research projects that are contained in the digital repository ScholarWorks @ UMass Amherst, a Digital Commons site.


Filling The Void: Publishing Within The Digital Repository., Marilyn S. Billings Jun 2008

Filling The Void: Publishing Within The Digital Repository., Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

This presentation showcases original digital publishing of journals, books, and other scholarly materials using the Digital Commons software.


Cyberinfrastructure And The Transformation Of Libraries, Marilyn S. Billings Mar 2008

Cyberinfrastructure And The Transformation Of Libraries, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

Libraries are beginning to exploit the transformation that cyberinfrastructure allows: for example, for discovery and access, for changing scholarly communication, for next-generation catalogs. This presentation will be an overview of some recent developments and describe ways that we all can participate in this transformation.


Changing Scholarly Communications And The Role Of An Institutional Repository In The Digital Landscape, Marilyn S. Billings Feb 2008

Changing Scholarly Communications And The Role Of An Institutional Repository In The Digital Landscape, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

Presentation to University of Maine community (faculty, administration, librarians, and administration) about scholarly communication topics (author rights, copyright) and institutional repositories, using ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst as example of an IR.


Faculty Senate Research Library Council: Scholarly Communication Activities At The University Of Massachusetts, Amherst, Ma, Marilyn S. Billings Feb 2008

Faculty Senate Research Library Council: Scholarly Communication Activities At The University Of Massachusetts, Amherst, Ma, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

Presentation to University of Maine Faculty Senate Library Advisory Committee members about the work done by the UMass Amherst Faculty Senate Research Library Council in support of scholarly communication, digital repositories, and open-access publishing


Selected Digital Repository Projects At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings Jan 2008

Selected Digital Repository Projects At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

In this presentation, I describe the Digital Commons service at UMass Amherst and show a wide variety of ways we have developed our instance, ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst


How To Keep Your Author Rights (And Influence People), Marilyn S. Billings Nov 2007

How To Keep Your Author Rights (And Influence People), Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

This presentation was part of the “Got Rights” UMass Amherst Science Faculty Colloquy, November 29, 2007.


Digital Repositories: A Umass Amherst Perspective, Fall 2007, Marilyn S. Billings Nov 2007

Digital Repositories: A Umass Amherst Perspective, Fall 2007, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

No abstract provided.


Template Letter For Permissions Request - On Behalf Of An Author, Marilyn S. Billings Jan 2007

Template Letter For Permissions Request - On Behalf Of An Author, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

No abstract provided.


Template Letter For Permissions Request - Author, Marilyn S. Billings Jan 2007

Template Letter For Permissions Request - Author, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

No abstract provided.


Template Letter For Permissions Request - Department, Marilyn S. Billings Jan 2007

Template Letter For Permissions Request - Department, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

No abstract provided.