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Cultivating Sustainable Library Publishing Services: Perspectives From A Range Of Academic Libraries (Lessons Learned: Developing A Sustainable Publishing Program), Sarah Beaubien

Sarah Beaubien

Discover how three institutions - a liberal arts college, a comprehensive university, and a research university - provide library-led publishing services to their campuses. The panelists will share how their respective institutions have developed and aligned policies, infrastructure, staffing, outreach, and strategic partnerships in order to provide sustainable publishing services. This presentation will also explore the risks and rewards in establishing innovative library publishing services in ways that support institutional missions.

Open Education Resources: Decreasing Costs And Increasing Freedom, Sarah Beaubien

Sarah Beaubien

Students, parents, faculty, and administrators are painfully aware of the high cost of traditional textbooks. Faculty are also aware that commercial teaching resources may be unnecessarily restrictive from a teaching point of view. As educators, there are many compelling reasons to participate in the use and development of open education resources (OER). Open education resources provide a cost-free alternative to traditional textbooks and facilitate important pedagogical opportunities. Faculty using OER in their teaching may select, combine, and even adapt the content to develop the most effective course materials. While OER can offer increased freedom for faculty and cost savings for …

Addressing Faculty Publishing Concerns With Open Access Journal Quality Indicators, Sarah Beaubien, Max Eckard

Sarah Beaubien

BACKGROUND The scholarly publishing paradigm is evolving to embrace innovative open access publication models. While this environment fosters the creation of high-quality, peer-reviewed open access publications, it also provides opportunities for journals or publishers to engage in unprofessional or unethical practices. LITERATURE REVIEW Faculty take into account a number of factors in deciding where to publish, including whether or not a journal engages in ethical publishing practices. Librarians and scholars have attempted to address this issue in a number of ways, such as generating lists of ethical/unethical publishers and general guides. DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT In response to growing faculty concern …

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group Registration And Evaluation Forms, Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Sarah Beaubien

Sarah Beaubien

The 2013 DC+GLUG Meeting was held August 8-9, 2013 at The Ames Library at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois. Presentations and posters from the meeting are available at http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/dcglug/.

Digital Commons+ Great Lakes User Group Planning Packet, Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Sarah Beaubien

Sarah Beaubien

This packet includes ideas/templates for… Save the Date bepress Event Community Set-up Form Call for Proposals Reminder (can edit for initial call) Message re evaluating program proposals – DCGLUG 2013 Presenters’ Guidelines Words of advice for DC+GLUG planners/hosts The 2013 DC+GLUG Meeting was held August 8-9, 2013 at The Ames Library at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois. Presentations and posters from the meeting are available at http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/dcglug/.

Adding Value & Reducing Cost In Higher Education With Open Education Resources, Sarah Beaubien

Sarah Beaubien

Students, parents, faculty, and administrators are painfully aware of the high cost of traditional textbooks. Faculty are also aware that commercial teaching resources may be unnecessarily restrictive from a teaching point of view.

As educators, there are many compelling reasons to participate in the use and development of open education resources (OER). Open education resources provide a cost-free alternative to traditional textbooks and facilitate important pedagogical opportunities. Faculty using OER in their teaching may select, combine, and even adapt the content to develop the most effective course materials. While OER can offer increased freedom for faculty and cost savings for …

Library-Led Open Education Resources Initiatives: Strategies For Engaging Faculty, Sarah Beaubien

Sarah Beaubien

Open education resources (OER) are freely available materials for educators and learners. The open education movement is quickly expanding to include free textbooks, open courseware, and new models of delivering educational content. With expertise in the areas of open access, copyright, and institutional repositories, Librarians are well-suited to lead open education initiatives. This session discusses strategies for implementing open education initiatives, showcasing and preserving open education materials, and building partnerships to sustain this movement.

Serving Students And Faculty With Open-Access Textbooks, Sarah Beaubien, Charles Lowe

Sarah Beaubien

Many professors are developing their own textbooks for use in their courses, and institutional repositories make the perfect publishing venue for these valuable resources. In this webinar, Sarah Beaubien and Charles Lowe of Grand Valley State University share their success in bringing students targeted, high-quality texts at minimal or no cost. Charles, Associate Professor in the Department of Writing and editor of two OA texts, discusses the process of creating an OA textbook and using it in his teaching; and Sarah, Scholarly Communications Outreach Coordinator at GVSU, discusses the services the IR offers for these and other original OA texbooks …

Scholarworks@Gvsu Brochure, Sarah Beaubien, Erin Fisher

Sarah Beaubien

This bi-fold brochure emphasizes the global reach and impact of Grand Valley State University's repository, ScholarWorks@GVSU.

The Value Of Scholarly Communications Programming: Perspectives From Three Settings, Sarah Beaubien

Sarah Beaubien

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Recasting The Role Of Comprehensive University Libraries: Starting Points For Educating Librarians On The Issues Of Scholarly Communication And Institutional Repositories, Sarah Beaubien, Linda Masselink, Jodi Tyron

Sarah Beaubien

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Developing A Multifaceted Approach To Identify A Core Undergraduate Browsing Collection, Doug Way, Sarah Beaubien, Julie Garrison

Sarah Beaubien

In planning for a new library that will include a limited number of open stacks, Grand Valley State University librarians were asked to identify what materials should be reserved for the browsable shelves. To accomplish this, librarians considered user behavior by discipline, material types, shelving options and the role of core collections. This paper will discuss these issues as well as differences in how library resources are located and the impact of new discovery tools, such as Innovative Interface's Encore, Bowker’s Syndetics, and Google’s Book Search on redefining browsability. The paper will also include a discussion of resources used in …

Developing A Multifaceted Approach To Identify A Core Undergraduate Browsing Collection, Sarah Beaubien, Julie Garrison

Sarah Beaubien

In planning for a new library that will include a limited number of open stacks, Grand Valley State University librarians were asked to identify what materials should be reserved for the browsable shelves. To accomplish this, librarians considered user behavior by discipline, material types, shelving options and the role of core collections. This paper will discuss these issues as well as differences in how library resources are located and the impact of new discovery tools, such as Innovative Interface's Encore, Bowker’s Syndetics, and Google’s Book Search on redefining browsability. The paper will also include a discussion of resources used in …